Avoiding the cliff Utah's delegates don't get it  Utah lawmakers
very well may be representing the views of their constituents as
they insist that the federal government's looming fiscal crisis
be fixed — or just temporarily avoided — without any new sources
of revenue. But they are not representing our best interests. Or
the facts.  The view expressed by the Utah members of the lame
duck Congress — Sens. Orrin Hatch and Mike Lee, Reps. Rob
Bishop, Jason Chaffetz and Jim Matheson — is that any
possibility of raising revenues is so wrong that they would much
rather just punt than do a deal with the White House.  This
despite the fact that President Obama was clearly re-elected on
his promise of allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire for
households with incomes of more than $250,000 a year. Exit polls
showed, in fact, that voter support for higher taxes on the
rich, as part of a deficit-reduction package, was higher than
voter support for Obama's re-election.  The argument that any
real progress toward defici