Top Links: President’s $1.6 trillion ‘fiscal cliff’ plan, Gmail lessons of Petraeus and TV Land viewers heart Obama

President Obama faces the White House press corps today on the “fiscal cliff”, Petraeus and whatever else ya got. Game on.

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• House Speaker John Boehner told President Obama last year: $800 milllion of new revenue, take it or leave it. The president left it; now he has a mandate and the same $1.6 trillion counteroffer. Whoops. (Salon)

• Romney (and ex-Bush) economic advisor: Yeah, average tax rates on the wealthy do need to go up. (The Financial Times)

• “The problem here is that urging Mr. Obama not to join House Republicans in reducing entitlement spending is like pleading with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John not to reunite for a Christmas album. It’s just too late.” (The Caucus)

• Can’t remember who emailed who, after what sexy comment was made when, in the Petraeus scandal timeline of events? Well, here it is, in all its chronological glory. (The Week)

• 5 Gmail lessons from the Petraeus affair. (Politico)

• Pat Robertson on the Petraeus affair. “The man’s off in a foreign land and he’s lonely and here’s a good-looking lady throwing herself at him. He’s a man.” (Mediate)

• A new ABC/Washington Post poll finds a big majority support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. (ABC/Washington Post)

• In that same poll, a slight majority favor same-sex marriage. The split? Women overwhelmingly favor it; men overwhelmingly do not. C’mon, guys. (ABC/Washington Post)

• Watch TV Land? Then you may have voted for Obama. (The New York Times)

• European-wide protests against austerity today, in pictures. (BBC)

• And if restaurant reviews that employ Socratic questioning to eviscerate celebrity chefs to their core is to your taste, well, you’re in luck. (The New York Times)