Obama, Boehner meet about fiscal cliff

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Obama, Boehner meet about fiscal cliff
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Twenty-three days since they last met
face-to-face and 23 days before the fiscal cliff
becomes a harsh reality, the two men most pivotal
to the contentious budget talks sat down Sunday.
There was no evidence of a breakthrough. Sunday's
White House meeting caught some by surprise,
considering it had not been on the president's
official schedule and the two sides have been
sparring publicly, accusing each other of failing
to work sincerely toward a compromise. The
statements didn't give much insight into
developments on the effort to prevent the U.S.
government from going over the fiscal cliff, the
term referring to the widespread automatic tax
hikes and spending cuts that will take effect in
January without a deal.
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