A third option, Ornstein suggested, is that everybody agrees to postpone the fiscal cliff until March, to give more time to work out a deal, and to keep the economy from slipping into recession in January.
"Any of these could happen, none are ideal," Ornstein said. "One wild card, of course, is the reaction of the markets."
--CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh contributed to this report.
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