Yes. It's a Fiscal Curb, not a Fiscal Cliff...
...and "Liberal" is NOT a dirty word (for which we have let ourselves be reduced to using "progressive" as a cowardly euphemism).
Why should we retreat into some sort of a "grand bargain"?
Words matter. Language matters. And it's time to take "Political American English" back (or "forward") from Frank Lutz and Karl Rove...
That is all.