they have only until november 23rd to figure out how to cut $1.5 trillion or those trigger effects go into play. so the republicans met yesterday, now the democrats are going to meet and remember what newt gingrich said during the debate that was on fox news a few weeks ago, he really got people's attention when he talked about the fact that he believes that this whole idea of the super committee, well, it's dumb! >> look, i think this super committee is about as dumb an idea as washington has come up with. i mean, i used to run the house of representatives. i have some general notion of these things. the idea that 523 senators and congressmen are going to sit around while mostly brilliant people will sit in some room and brilliantly come up with a trillion dollars or force us to choose between gutting our military and accepting the tax increase is irrational. they're going to walk in just