Max Baucus actually said...

If the other side is completely intransigent, that the president has probably no choice but to say, OK, we're going to go over the cliff. That would not be my first preference.

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Senator Baucus suggests that if negotiations fail, the president may have to accept going over the fiscal cliff.

11/29/2012

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