I’ve long said that whatever Sean Hannity complains about others doing is a big tell that that’s what he’s about to do. Last night’s lengthy whine session about the “fiscal cliff” is a perfect example. He began the lengthy commentary with an attack on President Obama for “hoping” the U.S. will go over the fiscal cliff. Then, a few minutes later, Hannity urged two Republican Congressmen not to “cave” even though that means – yep, going over the cliff.

Despite acknowledging that President Obama cut short his holiday in Hawaii in order to meet with Congressional leaders, Hannity sneered:

Now, I’ve said from the very beginning that the president – he wants to convince you that he will do everything in his power to stop us from going over this cliff. Unfortunately, that has never been the case. Now, the president and his Democratic allies, they’re hoping that we do go over the fiscal cliff and I make the contention this has been their plan from Day One.

Hannity went on to accuse President Obama of “playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the American economy” with such a strategy.

But Obama’s “dangerous game of chicken” soon turned into “a principled stand” for Republicans.

After arguing that the cliff can be avoided if only the Senate would pass the Republican bill that extends all the tax cuts (never mind that President Obama won re-election with a mandate to raise taxes on the wealthy) and accusing Obama of “clinging to his rigid, radical ideology,” Hannity said, “Enough is enough.”

Maybe it’s now time for Republicans to call the president’s bluff. Let him take the country over the fiscal cliff if he so chooses. ...Maybe now is the time for Republicans to stand up – for your kids. For your grandchildren. Maybe they should dig in their heels and say they’re looking out for the future and future generations. Maybe now is the time to take a principled stand and say they’re not gonna let Washington continue with this out-of-control spending, this debt, this deficits. Maybe now, at this moment, maybe that’s the right thing to do.

Then, for some more hate mongering, “Great American” Hannity trotted out two Republican wingnuts, Louie Gohmert and Tim Huelskamp. Gohmert told a chuckling Hannity that Sen. Harry Reid has no conscience “or he would have given up leadership on his own.”

But before long, Hannity was doing his best to persuade his guests to see things his way and allow the country to go over the cliff: “Will the Republicans hold the line on the principles that they ran on or do you expect that maybe many of them will cave? ‘Cause to me, I think the American people would like principled leadership. Does that exist?”