democrat. 25% of rhode island voters say he s doing a good or excellent job. we learned david petraeus will be doing more than teaching college kids. the former four-star general and c.i.a. director will lead an institute at private equity firm k-fpl k.r. he will firm k.k.r. good for him. steve? steve: if you are looking to remodel your house, chances are your plans may include maybe a pool, a new family room, all personalize touches you want. but did you ever think that perhaps you could ever turn your dream house into a nightmare when it s time to sell? some common renovations and improvements can hurt the value of your house. here to explain is our real estate expert. when we fix up our houses, them. we figure the next person will love them. not so much necessarily? i would say your home is
brian: the man behind an explosion at disneyland was an employee. according to the police, they said 22-year-old christian barnes filled a bottle with dry ice and dropped it in the trash can in toontown. fortunately no one was hurt and no one goes to toontown anymore. an incredible cell phone video capturing a tornado ripping through milan, italy. you can see debris flying through the air as the driver heads down the busy highway. steve? steve: brian, thank you. do you have trouble getting your kids to sleep? it turns out there could be a genetic reason. a new study determined that your sleeping rituals can be passed down to your children. so which sleep habits are the ones we need to worry about? gretchen: i need to pay close attention to this. dr. marc siegel, fox
to the beginning of next year and we don t have a deal, then it s not the end of the world. it s a fiscal slope. it s not a wile e. coyote moment. don t change your spending because we think the deal will come, then the economy will weaken day by day and then investors will lose faith and confidence. it is better to go into next year, to get that better deal. we need to come out of this with a good deal. it s not worth it going down this path and coming away with something that doesn t address the fiscal cliff. doesn t raise the treasury debt ceiling and does not result in fiscal sustainability. if we don t do it now, i fear we won t do it. so we have to do it right now. and if it takes going into next year, then so be it. mark, so that steve doesn t totally lose his cool, i want to make sure, he gets attribution
can t lose. going back to what steve was saying, those of us behind the president, progressives, when he went to kansas and started to take the message to the people we said hallelujah. finally this what he should have been doing from the beginning. it has been effective. he does have a lot of leverage here, but it never hurts to have the people behind you as well. in 2008, they originally tried to morph obama for america into organizing for america. and it never really worked well. people really never got engaged in it. to me it s very encouraging and a it reminds me of my favorite quote ever from the much maligned community organizer saul alinsky who says action comes from keeping the heat on. no politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough. i think we have seen examples this year. early in 2012 this wasn t a policy issue, but komen for the cure had decided to end their long-standing relationship with
strategy of a last year and half. but the basic idea of going out there and campaigning on this right here, i don t see why he d stop right now. you know, you can t argue his ground game was really good, steve. i think that what he and jim mussina want to do is make sure it stays intact for next democratic election, whether in two or four years. maybe you could possibly read into this that he s not as confident that he has the kind of leverage he needs with the gop and he has to go out and sell this some more. i also think that last point that you made, steve, was right. that he is going to be facing a lot of pressure if he s not already from liberal activist groups. folks like trumka and labor groups who don t want him to cave on the entitlements and benefits when he s talking to the gop. if he gets to them first and says, don t pressure me, let s both pressure the gop together, it s almost kind of circumventing that scenario and saying, let s work together toward a common enemy. it