Maybe there’s been a more contrived melodrama in this town sometime in the dim past, but it’s hard to imagine what could top the manufactured malarkey of the “Fiscal Cliff crisis.”

For weeks, Washington politicians and their protectors in the mainstream media warned of imminent doom if President Obama and Congress failed to reach a “deal” to avoid going over the cliff before 2012 hit the exit door.

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Letters to the Editor: July 19, 2012