is the fiscal cliff obama's fault?

Obama did inherit a huge debt crisis; however, he has spent more money as President than the rest of the former Presidents combined. What Obama has done is made this debt crisis from back when Bush was President into a bigger debt crisis than what we already have now. Taxes and wasteful government spending is not the answer to solve our nation's problems.

No. Congress is responsible for the budget, and due to the republicans' refusal to compromise on anything, congress couldn't pass a balanced budget like they were supposed to have last summer. So instead they created a budget with a bunch of automatic cuts in it - the fiscal cliff.

Next, congress refused to even touch the budget again until after the elections in November. This left them with very little time to fix the budget.

AND...to no one's surprise, once again the republicans refused to compromise.

Even the last minute, scratch that, the 1-day-late decision still didn't solve everything. It just kicked the harder decisions down the road a few more months...so the new congress will have to deal with them. Of course, the "new" congress is largely the same as the "old" congress. For instance, Boehner is still the speaker...and still has the same stubborn "always say no to anything Obama says" attitude.

So, farewell fiscal cliff, and hello debt ceiling II - electric bugaloo.

Everyone in Washington is to blame for the fiscal cliff. They had months to work out a deal and they only started working on a deal after the election. They gave themselves a month and half to make a deal on a complex issue. They should have been working on it from the day they were warned that they would have to eventually deal with the fiscal cliff.

So I blame the President, the House and the Senate.

sure, if Congress do no longer act, Obama will surely enable us to "pass over the economic cliff", yet what you fail to attain is that the ensuing automatic cuts in spending and improve in Tax expenses to those in result decrease than Clinton will will bring about Obama getting the credit incredibly than the blame...

Really Obama want to pass the bill so it's everyone see they had all this time Obama made the bill they didn't want to pass it yet so it's some people fault but not Obama

not entirely his but has contributed in conscious way . framing and releasing TARP and other 2 trillion funds he has added . other option were more painful . in releasing TARP all political leaders have collaborated to save their skins from voters