home for thanksgiving. let s talk about this. this is getting serious. the leadership created the super committee, invested it with unbelievable, unprecedented procedural clout and power, insulating it from all of the other ravages that slow down legislation, filibusters, amendments, everything. there was work product by two independent commissions laid before this committee. all of the work was done, the procedural guardrails were all knocked down. it s a clean, straight line. what does this tell us? you can t use process to overcome politics until you resolve these issues about taxation entitlements politically, no matter of procedural gimmickry will change the outcome. they might get 1.2 trillion and the lowest common denominator. all of us could find it over ten years with a lot of age-old washington gimmicks, if they do produce something, that s what s going to be in it. won t fundamentally alter the
single digits, attacks people like mitt romney herman cain, won t do it. he s not a credible messenger at the moment. i think he s trying to attack democrats well known disliked democrats among the republican base to boost his credibility up so that he might be able to start comparing and contrasting his records with those of his the people ahead of him in the race. it s a reclamation project and he s trying to use democrats to help him there. and republicans voicing control of the house committee on another front going after the president on the whole solyndra mess, a high profile hearing today and it was secretary chu, the secretary of energy, physicist in the hot seat. let s watch. as secretary of energy, the final decisions on solyndra were mine and i made them with the best interest of the taxpayer in minds. i want to be clear, over the course of solyndra s loan guarantee, i did not any
it. let s talk about newt. i think one of the most amazing developments out of a race that has been unpredictable is all of a sudden i think thanks in large part to the debates, newt is relevant and the conservative alternative to the conservative alternative. the herman cain, rick perry newt gingrich. sustainable. you know iowa better than anyone. does he have the organization that takes a good debate performance and turn it into votes? as of now, no. he does not. that s not saying he can t try to build some of it. it s his turn in some respects. that s why he is getting this boom. he is good in debates and thing that also has not come out, if he would take office, the romney people in boston have a long list of things out there. his environmental positions and his cap and trade.
clinton pat, let s talk about newt. does he have a shot? i want to tell you something he is a smart guy. let me say this. newt is by far the best thinker outside the box in american politics. but did you see the silver in that hair? that was that really detracted from his message. that is lit up. pat, let me say something. you re not the one to talk about hair, pat. look who is saying that to me. whoa. this looks good. phil, you re probably the closest con person to mike huck. my desk is closer to his office. and i have a desk rather than an office. i will also say that i like what
front-runner. polls out this week show independent voters increasingly turned off to romney and the results from the all out negativity of the campaign isn t going to help. more ads for romney were positive. and he was paying for most of them. and how much damage has it done to newt gingrich? he s vowed to keep fighting. so there s a long way to go before now and coming back here to tampa at the beginning of the summer. let me ask you all, first of all, let s talk about newt. he goes away snarling tonight. he did not endorse, he did not support. he did not congratulations. he did not concede tonight.