How come there isn't a disclaimer at the end of this article stating that Mr. Cramer is not shorting the market?????  One more thing.  It's a shoot up in "UNemployment claims", not "Employment claims".

Congress now play the semantics bulls--t game. What is the difference of raising the "tax rate" or closing the loopholes and deductions from the very rich? NOTHING but semantics.

Either you ask the richest to pay $ 25,000-40,0000 more on 1 million income or you raise the dividend rate from 15% to 25% on their million dollars of diviidend income($10,000) and take away the $25,000 property tax deduction and $15,000 mortgage interest  deduction on their  $750,000 house, or on their second home or yacht or super RV that are considered second homes.

Math is math. All this is semantics to "not raise the tax rate" and upset Grover, Rove,and FOX and  50 tea party republicans who hold the rest of the party and country hostage.

Novel idea:  Offer only Americans a 5 year "American T bill"  Pays all citizens buying  2%, TAX free, Trillions come into treasury over next 5 years, pay back Chinesse and all foreighn countries.

Koo... Romney wanted to build a stronger military also ..... but as noted by you.  Look back at Reagan....and the Bushs. A larger stronger military never solved our problems !

When are the politicians going to grow up......stop calling other world leaders names as if they are playing in a sand box...... as if children ? Relating to Rumsfelds.....Shock and Awe... Abu grave issues.

We need a stronger military...when the leaders such as Petraeus cant keep their pants on ?  Obama dont have any idea what happened in Benghazi yet....... we need a stronger military when no one knows whats happening ???

At least Obama never suggested a more powerful military !   

 Lets try a more effective military ?

the fiscal cliff will be the best thing ever for America

add in a 50 percent tax hike on all income of the super rich and a 25 percent tax hike on those making above $250,000 a year 

getting rid of all loop holes --- people forget that the Reagan deal with lower tax rates came with getting rid of all the corporate and high income loop holes which increased revenue.

Somehow the tax rates stayed low for the super rich yet  the loop holes made their way back into the tax code. Hmmmm funny how the loop holes for the middle class never came back.

If the loop holes for the super rich were done away with and their taxes increased by 50 percent then we could almost pay off the debt.

After all the debt is merely a function of the super rich not paying enough taxes and paying and hiring people at a livable wage.

So the super rich caused the debt and they can clean it up.

I sure love how an old short-seller like Cramer is suggesting that one of the ways to force a fiscal cliff decision is for Wall Street hedge funds to just pump-and-dump then stay out until a decision is reached. Great advice that will hurt the little guy, Cramer. What the GOP needs to do is realize that half of the country thinks the Tea Party GOP is a bunch of religious fanatics totally disinterested in politically taking care of the responsibilities of their positions. The Tea Party needs to be thrown out and it should be a warning in the future that the Tea Party is an American Taliban. The GOP needs to desperately come back to the center and focus on being the party of small business again because this 30-year detour to the far right has been a humiliating disaster. It should be noted that Eisenhower warned us of the financial abyss we could fall into if the military-industrial complex is unchecked as it was under Reagan and both Bushes. Now we're broke. Even Romney's own father, after a tour of Vietnam, realized very early on that the war was not winnable and that politicians were lying to the American people about their successes and the extent of their failures in the war. Romney, Sr. came out against the war and lost the GOP nomination for President. His son decided to continue along this right wing path and lost. We are broke. There is no more money for policing the world and we have failed at policing our own borders and are losing the drug war. We need to be energy independent and we need a budget deal soon to make this market go up. Citigroup raised guidance on Disney this morning so there is hope. 2013 may be better than we think.