So it’s been an interesting day.  Obama flies back to Washington to work on a fiscal cliff solution.  Boehner meanwhile calls the House back into session this coming Sunday night.  The Senate is already in session.  No one wants to look like they are slacking.  Obama  calls in Boehner, McConnell, Pelosi and Reid for a meeting at the Whitehouse.

And then the President comes out to make his statement at 5:45 this evening.  And he throws what in baseball terms is called a high heater, a bit of chin music, a dust off pitch.  It's what pitchers do when they think a batter is a little too confident, too willing to lean out over the plate.