Gallup’s numbers as of today.
Republicans are most likely to name Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as their first choice for their party’s 2012 presidential nomination, with Herman Cain close behind. Among all Republicans nationwide, Romney is the choice of 20% and Gingrich 19%. Among Republican registered voters, Gingrich is at 22% and Romney at 21%.
Ever get the sense there is no leadership anywhere in Washington right now?
(AP) WASHINGTON – Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job. But the same legislators who concocted that budgetary booby trap just four months ago could end up spending the 2012 election year and beyond battling over defusing it.
Judd Gregg marks Obama “present” on fiscal responsibility. Is that a surprise to anyone outside the GOP political establishment?
Throughout his term, President Obama has avoided leading on the issue of fiscal responsibility. He walked away from his own commission, the one led by former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and former White House Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles, when he found its report filled with inconvenient choices.
Now that the SuperCommittee has failed, automatic spending cuts of $1.2 Trillion, over the next ten years, kick in. Sounds like a lot, right? Keep in mind that over that same period overall spending will be around $50 Trillion, including an additional $10+ Trillion in new borrowing. This chart shows why we’re still screwed, even with the big-sounding cuts:
DOOM: So it’s like that
Downward: Commerce Department announces the US economy grew slowed than expected in the 3rd Quarter.
The Bank of England says the risk of a market meltdown is at its highest level since July 2008. Hmm, what happened in the months following July 2008.
MF Global missing cash pile has doubled to more than $1.2 Billion.
Uh Oh: Property prices are collapsing in China.
BigPeace: 22-Nov-11 World View — Egypt Under Threat From ‘Second Revolution’ Mass Protest
Is this reverse gentrification? LA Mayor offers #OccupyLA mob 10,000 square feet of downtown office space, farmland if they leave City Hall.
Lafferty said city officials have offered protesters a $1-a-year lease on a 10,000-square-foot office space near City Hall. He said officials also promised land elsewhere for protesters who wish to farm, as well as additional housing for the contingent of homeless people who joined the camp.
Just when you thought we didn’t have Hillary to kick around any more.
President Obama should abandon his run for a second term and turn over the reins of the Democratic Party to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, two one-time Democratic pollsters wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal, which appeared online Sunday. From National Journal: Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen argued that just as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson decided not to pursue additional runs though they could have, Obama should do the same.
Meanwhile, in case you missed it, we dodged another bullet, for now.
José Pimentel of Manhattan was described by Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a news conference as “a 27-year-old al-Qaida sympathizer” who was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police had to move quickly to arrest Pimentel on Saturday because he was ready to carry out his plan.
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