comfortable saying if it goes oaf the cliff it won t be that bad. it won t be ha bad for you, but it will be disastrous for many americans. this is why approval rating is at historic lows. just as the president said, americans can t figure out why when you re in a circumstance when i, as a taxpayer and paying fur your health insurance and you don t have to worry about retirement, mr. congressman, because i know what you have on the back end, and your job is secure even though you take a holiday break. but i had to work on christmas day because i am a worker who earns five or six or seven dollars an hour as a domestic worker. ordinary people, at their kitchen tables, understand not only what this fiscal cliff is. but i think part of what the representative is telling us here, we have to be really clear about is what republicans would like to do is hold the country s long term hostage on the short term. and it s critical the democrats, no matter how important it is to