15 Best Star Wars' Fiscal Cliff Tweets

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- A day after Disney CEO Bob Iger, newly-crowned patriarch of the Star Wars franchise, sounded the alarm on the forthcoming U.S. fiscal cliff, Twitter users are blowing off steam with a new hashtag that's equal parts nerd and market geek:

#StarWarsFiscalCliff

The hashtag -- reminiscent of #FedValentines -- is among the top trends on Twitter as of Friday afternoon.

Here are a few of our favorite tweets bringing levity to an otherwise mundane "Fiscal Cliff Friday." If you'd like to see the full stream of #StarWarsFiscalCliff tweets, you can find them here.

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Pelosi: "Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking Nerf herder!" Boehner: "Who's scruffy-looking?" #StarWarsFiscalCliff— Rob Holmes (@RobTheStreet) November 9, 2012

I felt a great disturbance in the budget, as if billions of dollars suddenly cried out in terror and disappeared #StarWarsFiscalCliff— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) November 9, 2012

Jar Jar Biden "You'sa work in the defense industry and voted Obama? Me'sa think you'sa is screwed." #StarWarsFiscalCliff— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) November 9, 2012