ed gillespie y hed senator kerry sathe markets may look at the inability for the super committee to get a dealone and we may be downgraded again. the politics on both sides, for republicans and for the president, had to take ahit after another failure. no? >i think prbably. i think, you know, approval rating for congress will go down. the approval rating for the president will go down. this will reinforce an era of a lack of leadership on the president s part. he litally phoned in a call to the chairs of th committee, was not engaged at l, and i think they both take a hit on this. pushes the debate into the prsidential election where it probably belongs. let s look at our trend tracker here. gingrich brushes off baggage. he s got thatew website that we talked about already. the iowa religious forum. and it gets to the point abo whether mke murphy, mi romney, is going to make a play in iowa. governor brand says he better. governor brand needs him to. we got to keep te franchise of
republican whip of the senate jon kyl of arizona. and the senior senator from massachusetts, democrat john kerry. kyl and kerry on the debt fight. then back to the campaign trail. newt gingrich is up in the polls, but battling his past. this time his high-priced work on behalf of mortgage giant freddie mac. herman cain stays in the top tier despite anotr foreign policy lapse. i did not agree that s a different point. and rick perry is looking for a comeback by getting personal with president obama. inside analysis this morning from our roundtable. republican strategist mike mphy and ed gillespie. plus former white house press secretary for president clinton, dee dee myers. and juan columnist eugene robinson. good morning, newt gingrich now leading the republican field in a new poll out this morning, of the 2012 campaign figures prominently in the debt fight on capitol hill. it is untdown time for the supercommittee, with a wednesday deadline for a vote. the bipartian co
but whe is there potential for a breakthrough? anywhere? or is this going to fail? it s been very hard so far. i think it s illustred by the last thougs made by republicans. we have not been able to do entitlement reform or tax reform and so republicans say let s see if we can salvage something here? take areas where we at least have some agreement in our meeting, put those together and it adds up to about $640 billion tat we couldactually save in increased costs or in some cases, some revenue from asset sales and that sort of thing. my democratic friends said no to that offer because it didn t raise taxes. and i think it tells you a lot. and that is that in washington, there is folks that will not cut a dollar unless we also raise taxes. all right. well the otherside of that is how republicans feel about taxes. and it is the heart of the matter. the question is whether grover nor quest, the anti- crusader in washington, who if you hear critics, holds sway over all repu
you cannot have a president who says things like i m gng to be elected to lead, not read. as if you don t need to be able to read and to listen and to do all the things presidents can do. his 15 minut have now passed and newt gingrich has ascended. but his 15 minutes only lasted what, like four weeks, five weeks? that tells us it senirely possible we could be on to the next republicany the time the iowa caucus is on january 3r and that could be newt gingrich. t i m here to stay say that i think it will not be. iesent that you think we in the media have a short attention span. i know. i saw the video and i thoughthell, perry s found a running mate. cain is a force of personality. i don t think he s going to tb the nominee. i think the legacy of herman cain is going to be the discussion about a consumption tax about how we re going to pay for all this stuff in 2013 after the failure of the super committee. another break here. i want to talk about occupy wall street, its
this sunday, here we go again. this sunday here we go again, down to the wire on a debt deal as america s red ink tops $15 trillion this week, the so-called super committee, charged with tackling the deficit is on the brink of failure, and again, the issue is taxes. has anything changed in washington since the debt downgrade of the summer? the american people may have voted for divided government but they didn t vote for a dysfunctional government. is it too late for a break-through now? what are the consequences of inaction, and is compromise on the big issues of taxes, entitlements and government spending even possible in a presidential election year? this morning, two key voices from the bipartisan committee, republican whip of the senate, jon kyl of arizona and the senior senator from massachusetts, democrat john kerry. kyl and kerry on the debt fund. then back to the campaign trail. newt gingrich is up in the polls but battling his past. this time his high-priced w