THE CONTINUING FISCAL CLIFF-HANGER IN THE HOUSE.............

The 2 a.m. Eastern Time vote overnight in the United States Senate with overwhelmingly bipartisan support for the Fiscal Cliff compromise bill negotiated by the two Senate Leaders and the Vice President, by a better than eleven to one margin, in a vote of 89 - 8; faces a renewed obstacle in the House of Representatives.  Speaker of the House John Boehner's statement twelve days ago when he pulled his own Plan B bill proposal from being voted upon, that he would let the Senate leadership pass a Fiscal Cliff bill first and when they did, take it up in the House and give it an up or down vote, has been pulled back, with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor coming out against the bill passed by the Senate last night siding with arch conservative Tea Party opposition to the legislation, without more and steeper spending cuts.  With the 112th Congress history and the new 113th Congress convening in just under forty four hours from now, unless a reachable acceptance of the bill with amendments to placate Republican Tea Party opponents to achieve a winning vote on the bill in the House, both chambers will have to start all over again as of 12 Noon Eastern Time  Thursday, and the passage of overnight's Senate Fiscal Cliff bill will be voided.  Having gone over the Cliff, the Senate having acted and the House putting the necessary legislation in a cliffhanger predicament, New Year's Day 2013 is underscoring that in the governmental American House of the People, is being held hostage to self interest Politics, instead of the what is in the best interest of our citizens.  Because Representative Eric Cantor and the Tea Party Republicans hold the votes to retain or remove Speaker John Boehner, the decent and honorable man he is, is being left twisting and turning, with his Speakership, and the Financial Stability and Economy of the USA, irresponsibly clinging to a precipice due to their political manipulations.............Fr.  Troy