This morning's Senate-proposed bipartisan compromise

A bipartisan agreement concerning the fiscal cliff was reached and passed 89-8 in the U.S. Senate this morning and will now move on to the House.

That's only eight people who voted against the agreement. And it sounds like the Republicans conceded quite a bit (see my previous post about the disagreements between the Republicans and Democrats), but still tempered the Democrats. Both facts make me optimistic that the House may also find common ground and work things out. The Washington Post wrote a good article about the bill here:

Obama, Senate Republicans reach agreement on 'fiscal cliff'

And there's another article by the Washington Post that looks promising but I haven't read yet:

After a 'fiscal cliff' deal, what next?