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The fiscal cliff comes along. You get a deal. You voted against it here and you were the only democrat to vote against it. Why did you vote against it . There were several of us on the democratic side that voted against it. My sense is that if we are going to really move this country forward, we have to start dealing with the big challenges we face physically, socially now, not do these shortterm fixes. A longterm fix would have included something that would have disposed of the socalled fiscal cliff. I believe this shortterm deal creates three new fiscal cliffs, which is not the way you want to run whether it is a Small Business on main street or the largest economy in the world. We need to get to the point of dealing with the biggest deficit in the country, the jobs deficit. To me, this bill simply put a bandaid on the problem. It did do something the president wanted to do, committed to do. He delivered on the promise to try to ....