you re here to represent us. you re not here to bicker and fight. reporter: in fact, the latest abc news/ washington post poll shows the highest anger level in 20 years. 80% angry or dissatisfied with washington. 62% favoring a compromise solution of spending cuts and tax increases. anger now morphing to worry. half think their personal portfolios are at risk. and for the first time a prominent financial analyst says he isn t selling. but he can no longer argue with those so stressed they want out of the market. if you are a small investor there s absolutely nothing wrong with moving to the sidelines on a short-term basis to wait till the dust settles. reporter: johnson and most analysts we talk to say it s still best to hold on if you can unless you re just too nervous and need to sell. jim avila, abc news, new york. those nerves certainly understandable. also, house republican leaders have postponed a vote set for today on what is being called a compromise debt ceiling p
something truly in a comprehensive sense. if the president came out with a brush package, the entire international community would support him and public opinion polls show majority of israelis and palestinians would support him. those israeli leaders critical of netanyahu would speak up. even though the public and the majority supports a compromise solution. so, you think the president should have laid out specifically all the details? what security for israel meant. things like that should be laid out in the speech? at least some articulation of the key elements. what does it mean. how specified and means not to israel because we can t expect israel to commit suicide for the sake of the ref gees. sharing of jerusalem.
that. penny, clearly the white house is playing a political game here, let the republicans go first with the details and then we ll find the compromise solution. is the president actually missing an opening here? i think he has seized it well. he started to do what he needed to do which is get specific. for the first time, people were disappointed in the state of the union, granted, but now he is being able to show he can lead on this issue. it is tough. it is very, very difficult, what they re asking to do. it is never easy to take things away from people. instead, you always want to these are some very tough decisions and you re seeing in polling today the american people want to talk about deaf it s sits but 78% said don t touch medicare, don t touch medicaid. they like a solution but they don t want anything gone. absolutely. so is this a good opening for mitt romney? the economy s his wheelhouse. slure, think last week you sw with the white house their buzzword was a
the budget. so that means that what looks now like a compromise solution is somewhere between bowles/simpson and the ryan plan. i don t actually think that s the right space for compromise. he allowed the negotiating terrain shift to the right when he could have been in another place. exactly. that s what i think. the white house will give you a different argument back. right. but i and one thing i do have to say in response to reid in this rare moment for me these days of being nice to the white house, yes, the speech was in significant part a political speech. though it s a reasonably serious and much more comprehensive approach than we ve seen. but it is hard to have serious negotiations with people who keep saying, as your brilliant opening did, we don t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. we need we do need the balanced approach, and if senior
with his supporters it s not going to fly at all, anderson. and ben, there s also the question of the opposition and whether they would stand for saif gadhafi taking over because all long they ve always said any other member of the gadhafi family would have to step down as well. reporter: we re hearing a fairly unanimous call from the eastern libya, and that is they do not want anybody from the gadhafi family. i heard one say we don t want the big gadhafi, we don t want the small gadhafis to have any role in the future of this country. i think they ve made it very clear time and time again that they are looking for regime change, not simply the changing of a figurehead. and even the rebels at the front say i asked them, what do you think of this talk of some sort of compromise solution? and he said, we are going to fight to the last man, to the