“Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer drew a curious comparison on Fox News Thursday evening between Washington’s fiscal cliff standoff and the Civil War. During a panel appearance on “Special Report” with Bret Baier, Krauthammer compared the White House’s opening proposal in the fiscal cliff negotiations to the surrender terms offered General …

Republicans familiar with a new White House offer on avoiding the so-called fiscal cliff say it looks almost exactly like President Barack Obama’s budget proposal last February. GOP aides say Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner presented an offer calling for $1.6 trillion in new tax revenue over the coming decade, extending …