States Want to Secede? Givers and Takers

President Obama's opponents have unwittingly come up with a brilliant plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff." They want to secede from the union. If Obama were serious about being a good steward of the nation's finances, he'd let them. The White House, in one of those astro-turf efforts that make people feel warm about small-d democracy, launched a "We the People" program on its Web site last year, ...