Somebody call Smokey Bear.  Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.

From judicialwatch.org, 11/30/11:

The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.

This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the “most transparent” administration in history? After all, the rifle used to kill the federal agent (Brian Terry) last December in Arizona’s Peck Canyon was part of the now infamous Operation Fast and Furious. Conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the disastrous scheme allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels.

Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of more than 1,000 guns which have been used in numerous crimes. In Terry’s case, five illegal immigrants armed with at least two semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and Terry got hit.

We know this only because Washington D.C.’s conservative newspaper , the Washington Times, got ahold of the court documents before the government suddenly made them off limits. The now-sealed federal grand jury indictment tells the frightening story of how Terry was gunned down by Mexican drug smugglers patrolling the rugged desert with the intent to “intentionally and forcibly assault” Border Patrol agents.

Former potential Republican Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin published a Facebook Note on November 10th, 2011 titled “Fire Eric Holder”.

Here is an excerpt:

…When the stories about Operation Fast and Furious first broke, it sounded too crazy even for this administration.

Why would any government official with an ounce of common sense think it’s a good idea to facilitate the smuggling of thousands of guns into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels? That’s what Operation Fast and Furious did.

You might think Eric Holder’s Department of Justice was setting up a sting operation in which our federal agents would swoop down and arrest the bad guys the minute the guns traded hands. But that’s not what happened. Eric Holder’s DOJ had American gun dealers sell weapons to “straw purchasers” tied to drug cartels without actually following the movement of the guns as they were then sold to Mexican drug lords. They apparently thought this so-called “gun-walking” operation would help them chart the path of gun smuggling, but they didn’t have a plan to actually control the weapons’ movements as the guns were allowed to “walk” into Mexico. All Holder’s DOJ did was arm violent criminals. What manner of fools do we have working in this administration? What’s next? Supplying nuclear weapons components to the Iranians so we can track their activities?

Fast and Furious isn’t just your typical government incompetence. This is a deadly tragedy. U.S. border agent Brian Terry was gunned down with weapons connected to Holder’s debacle. At least 200 Mexican citizens were also killed by criminals using Fast and Furious weapons. We can only imagine how many more people will be murdered by criminals our government armed.

When an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives blew the whistle on this operation, the DOJ leaked sensitive information about him to the press. This week, the former U.S. Attorney for Arizona, who was ousted in the wake of the scandal, admitted to being the leaker.

And where is President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in all of this? When did he first know about the operation? In his testimony to the House Oversight Committee on May 3, 2011, Holder stated, “I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.” But the DOJ’s own documents prove that Holder had been receiving briefings on Fast and Furious for nearly a year before that date. In other words, our government’s top law enforcement official, Eric Holder, lied to the American public. He finally admitted this week to the Senate Judiciary Committee, “In my testimony before the House committee [on May 3], I did say a few weeks. I probably could have said a couple of months. What I said about a few weeks was inaccurate based on what happened.”

Governor Palin was spot on.

Yesterday, Holder got just a wee bit testy with a reporter working for dailycaller.com:

Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder today demanded The Daily Caller stop publishing articles about the growing calls in Congress for his resignation because of the failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-walking program.

As Holder’s aide was escorting the attorney general offstage following his remarks Tuesday afternoon at the White House, a Daily Caller reporter introduced himself and shook Holder’s hand. The reporter asked him for a response to the growing chorus of federal legislators demanding his resignation.

Holder stepped towards the exit, then turned around, stepped back toward the reporter, and sternly said, “You guys need to — you need to stop this. It’s not an organic thing that’s just happening. You guys are behind it.”

Holder then walked offstage without answering TheDC’s request for comment about calls for his resignation.

So, on the same day that he and his boss, President Barack Hussein Obama, seal the files regarding the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, AG Eric Holder lashes out at a reporter trying to cover the story.

Why, if one was the suspicious type, one might suspect a full-blown cover-up was  in progress by the Obama Administration.

Naw, couldn’t be.  Next, you’ll be telling me that the Obama Administration has been funneling money to failed Green Energy Corporations.

Among the Republican Presidential hopefuls, Newt Gingrich, whose campaign was once on life support, has pulled a Lazarus and surged into the lead for his party’s nomination in many polls.

Gallup.com tells us that while Gingrich’s Positive Intensity Score is rising, Former Front-runner Mitt “The Legacy” Romney’s score is heading in the other direction:

Newt Gingrich’s most recent Positive Intensity Score of 20 in Gallup tracking conducted Nov. 14-27 is the highest of any Republican candidate, while Mitt Romney’s current score of 9 is his lowest of the year by one percentage point.

Gingrich and Romney are essentially tied as the front-runners on Gallup’s latest trial-heat ballot measure, but their Positive Intensity Scores this year have followed substantially different patterns.

Romney’s highest Positive Intensity Score this year is 20, measured in March, but he has been at or below 16 since late July. Romney’s score of 9 for the two-week period of Nov. 14-27 is his lowest of the year.

The trajectory of Gingrich’s Positive Intensity Score has shown a substantial drop and then an equally substantial rise over the course of the year. Gingrich’s score was 19 in March, but by summer it had plummeted to 1. The former speaker’s score then began an upward track, and has now reached 20 for two weeks in a row. This is Gingrich’s highest score of the year, is currently higher than the score of any other candidate by an 11-point margin, and leaves Gingrich as the only candidate with a double-digit score.

Still, for the first time since early May, the highest Positive Intensity Score over the last three weeks has been 20. This suggests that Gingrich leads in an environment in which Republicans are relatively unenthusiastic about any of the candidates running for their party’s nomination.

Romney’s strategy for combating this?

Produce a television ad explaining his platform?  Nope.

Go on a bus tour of the Heartland and press the flesh with Walmart Shoppers?  Nope.

Then what is his plan, you ask?

Why, launch an ad hominem attack, of course.

Romney on Tuesday lodged his first attack on his surging rival, Newt Gingrich, by labeling the former House speaker “a lifelong politician” and suggesting he lacks credibility on the economy.

Asked by Fox News’s Bret Baier in an interview Tuesday whether Gingrich could beat President Obama, Romney said: “I think to get President Obama out of office, you’re going to have to bring something to the race that’s different than what he brings.”

“He’s a lifelong politician. I think you have to have the credibility of understanding how the economy works. And I do. And that’s one reason I’m in this race.”

Among the Republicans running for president, Romney said that he believes he has the best shot “by far” of defeating Obama. He called Gingrich “a good man,” but highlighted the differences in their backgrounds.

“He spent his last 30 or 40 years in Washington,” Romney said. “I spent my career in the private sector. I think that’s what the country needs right now.”

Actually, sir, you were “reared” in the bosom of the Body Politic.

Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947 in Detroit.

…Raised in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Mitt Romney attended the prestigious Cranbrook School before receiving his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University in 1971. He attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School and received both a law degree and an M.B.A. in 1975.

Mitt Romney married Ann Davies in 1969; they have five sons, Tagg, Matt, Josh, Ben and Craig. He is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church.

The son of George Romney, Michigan governor and Republican presidential nominee (he was defeated by Richard Nixon in 1968), Mitt Romney began his career in business. He worked for the management consulting firm Bain & Company before founding the investment firm Bain Capital in 1984. In 1994, he ran for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts but was defeated by longtime incumbent Edward Kennedy.

In 1999, Romney stepped into the national spotlight when he took over as president of the Salt Lake Organizing Committee. He helped rescue the 2002 Winter Olympics from financial and ethical woes, and helmed a successful Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002.

In 2004 Romney authored the book Turnaround: Crisis, Leadership, and the Olympic Games.

Romney parlayed his success with the Olympics into politics when he was elected governor of Massachusetts in 2003. During Romney’s term as governor, he oversaw the reduction of a $3 billion deficit. Romney also signed into law a health care reform program to provide nearly universal health care for Massachusetts residents.

After serving one term, he declined to run for reelection and announced his bid for U.S. president. Romney made it through Super Tuesday, winning primaries in Massachusetts, Alaska, Minnesota, Colorado and Utah, before losing the Republican nomination to John McCain. In total Romney spent $110 million on his campaign, including $45 million of his own money.

Romney continued to keep his options open for a possible future presidential run. He maintained much of his political staff and PACs, and raised funds for fellow Republican candidates. In March 2010 Romney published a book titled No Apology: The Case for American Greatness in March 2010. The book debuted on the New York Times Best Seller list.

…And it was all downhill from there.

The key to the battle between these two professional politicians is genuineness.

Whoever conveys that personality trait most effectively to Conservatives /Republicans will win their vote.

And, right now, it’s not the author of Romneycare.

Since President Barack Hussein Obama took office (which seems like an eternity ago), he has increased the amount of drone attacks in the Middle East.

Which is an extremely hypocritical policy, considering how he’s blasted the Bush Administration’s War on Terror, err, excuse me, man-caused disasters:

During an Oct. 3, 2011, appearance on the Fox Business Network, Rep. John Fleming, R-La., said he agreed with comments critical of President Barack Obama that former Vice President Dick Cheney had offered one day earlier during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union.

Cheney had argued that Obama had criticized aspects of the Bush-Cheney approach to countering terrorism, yet once in office chose to follow many of his predecessors’ policies. “If you’ve got the president of the United States out there saying we overreacted to 9/11 on our watch, that’s not good,” Cheney said.

Host Candy Crowley then asked Cheney, “You’d like an apology, it sounds like?”

Cheney responded, “Well, I would. I think that would be, not for me, but I think for the Bush administration. …”

Fleming, in his Fox Business Network interview, echoed Cheney’s line of argument. During the interview, host Eric Bolling asked Fleming, “Does the president owe an apology to Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney?”

Fleming answered, “Absolutely, Eric. I agree with the former Vice President. President Obama is more and more beginning to look like the hypocrite-in-chief when it comes to the war on terrorism. All sorts of things that he criticized the president for, he’s actually continued and even extended. This drone attack program, he’s got it at the highest level ever.”

Unfortunately, the more you use a technology, the more you take the chance that the technology, or its operators,  will eventually screw up:

The Obama administration promised a full investigation into a NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers Saturday.

Hours after the attack, Secretary of State Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressed regret over the loss of life to their Pakistani counterparts, officials said.

Officials in Islamabad claimed the United States-led forces fired on the Pakistan Tensions between Islamabad and Washington, which have been high for years, grew worse after terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden was found living peacefully in Pakistan.

U.S. officials have also accused Pakistan of not doing enough to stop militant attacks on American soldiers, while many in Pakistan have long been suspicious of the NATO presence in the region.

NATO investigators believe the air strike was meant for insurgents who inhabit the troubled border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The coalition launched an immediate investigation into the attack, officials said.

Needless to say, Pakistanis do not wish to forgive and forget:

Hundreds of enraged Pakistanis took to the streets across the country Sunday, burning an effigy of President Barack Obama and setting fire to US flags after 24 soldiers died in NATO air strikes.

The rallies were organised by opposition and right-wing Islamist groups in major cities of the nuclear-armed country of 167 million people, where opposition to the government’s US alliance is rampant.

In Karachi, the port city used by the United States to ship supplies to troops fighting in Afghanistan, more than 700 people gathered outside the US consulate, an AFP photographer said.

They shouted: “down with America, stay away Americans, Pakistan is ours, we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our army”, while Pakistani riot police were deployed near the consulate.

Outside the press club in Karachi, dozens of political activists burnt an effigy of President Obama, an AFP photographer added.

In the central city of Multan, more than 300 activists loyal to the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as local traders took to the streets, burning US and NATO flags.

They carried placards and banners, and shouted: “down with America,” “down with NATO,” “Yankees go back”, “vacate Afghanistan and Pakistan” and “stop drone attacks” — a reference to a CIA drone war against Islamist militants.

Speaking at the rally, opposition lawmaker Javed Hashmi demanded that the government end its alliance in the US-led “war on terror”.

In Islamabad, at least 200 activists of the radical Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) party held a rally in the middle-class I-10 neighbourhood.

“We strongly condemn the attack and the killing of our soldiers,” local JI chief Mian Aslam told the rally in reference to the air strike early Saturday, as protestors chanted “Pakistan is America’s graveyard.”

Pakistan has reacted with fury over the killings, and has called the attack by NATO helicopters and fighter jets on two military posts close to the Afghan border “unprovoked”.

In response, Islamabad has sealed its Afghan border to NATO supply convoys and is reviewing its alliance with the United States and NATO, mulling whether to boycott a key international conference on Afghanistan next month.

Unfortunately for Obama, and even more unfortunate for Americans, this incident is just a pimple on the posterior of a failed Foreign Policy which has allowed the replacement of Moderate Muslim Dictators in the Middle East with hard-line adherents, who are friendly with, if not members of, the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic Terrorist organization our idiotic Administration has been courting.

All of this, under the watch of a Commander-in-Chief who once said that

The Muslim Call to Prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth.

Because of his dangerous Foreign Policy, several of the countries in the Middle East will be hearing that sound more often.

When did the Occupy Wall Street movement start and why are these hygenically-challenged, Moms’ basement-dwelling slackers still around?

Per the Liberal-leaning wiki.answers.com:

The Occupy Movement began in September 2011, with the occupation of Wall Street in New York as a protest against the fact that roughly 1% of the world’s population owns and manipulates the world’s wealth as well the 99% from whom it derives that wealth.

Towards the end of November 2011 the Occupy Movement had spread to just under 1000 cities in 82 countries all over the planet.

The Occupy Movement is a protest against the transnational corporations and companies (including financial institutions, like banks) whose only motivation is greed and profiteering, and who do not care about the preservation of the world’s diverse cultures and environments, or the exploitation of the world’s precious resources, or the continuing pollution of the planet and the irreversible damage that is being done to the delicate biosphere in which we all must live.

Delicate biosphere, my foot.

September…September…what else was going on in September?  Oh, yeah…Obama proposed a $447 Billion fiasco of a jobs bill:

I am sending this Congress a plan that you should pass right away. It’s called the American Jobs Act. There should be nothing controversial about this piece of legislation. Everything in here is the kind of proposal that’s been supported by both Democrats and Republicans — including many who sit here tonight. And everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything.

The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed. It will provide — it will provide a tax break for companies who hire new workers, and it will cut payroll taxes in half for every working American and every small business.  It will provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled, and give companies confidence that if they invest and if they hire, there will be customers for their products and services. You should pass this jobs plan right away.

Everyone here knows that small businesses are where most new jobs begin. And you know that while corporate profits have come roaring back, smaller companies haven’t. So for everyone who speaks so passionately about making life easier for “job creators,” this plan is for you.

Support for Obama’s Jobs Act has been non-existent.  Congresscritters have been running away from the bill faster than Occupiers from personal responsibility.

Why, if someone was a conspiracy buff, one might think that the Occupy movement was nothing but camouflage for the Administration…a misdirection play, if you will.

Nah, couldn’t be…could it?

Gentle Reader, have you been wondering where these Moms’ basement-dwellers have been getting the money for their exercise in futility?

Reuters.com reported on 10/13/11 that:

There has been much speculation over who is financing the disparate protest, which has spread to cities across America and lasted nearly four weeks. One name that keeps coming up is investor George Soros, who in September debuted in the top 10 list of wealthiest Americans. Conservative critics contend the movement is a Trojan horse for a secret Soros agenda.

Soros and the protesters deny any connection. But Reuters did find indirect financial links between Soros and Adbusters, an anti-capitalist group in Canada which started the protests with an inventive marketing campaign aimed at sparking an Arab Spring type uprising against Wall Street. Moreover, Soros and the protesters share some ideological ground.

“I can understand their sentiment,” Soros told reporters last week at the United Nations about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, which are expected to spur solidarity marches globally on Saturday.

Pressed further for his views on the movement and the protesters, Soros refused to be drawn in. But conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh summed up the speculation when he told his listeners last week, “George Soros money is behind this.”

He’s not the only one, Rush.  Gateway Pundit reported on 10/15/11 concerning thisannouncement from the Communist Party USA:

This is an exciting time! Thousands of mainly young people have been occupying Wall Street for three weeks already, and the “Occupy Movement” has spread to more than 200 other cities. On Oct. 6 the actions spread to our nation’s capital.

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) will hold a national teleconference to discuss it:

Arturo Cambron

The Communist Party and the Occupy L.A. Movement

Tuesday, October 11, 8 pm Eastern

Teleconference number: 605-475-4850 (please note this is the corrected number. ignore previous.)

Access code: 1053538#

Southern California Party leader Arturo Cambron will share how the CPUSA and Young Communist League (YCL) are working in “Occupy Los Angeles.”

This movement, also known as the “99% movement,” is being hailed across the country. Movements and organizations are reaching out in solidarity. The AFL-CIO is opening union halls and offering other material assistance. Ordinary people are donating food, money and materials.

In many areas, the “Occupy Movement” is linking up with the National American Wants to Work Week of Actions, Oct. 10-16.

No doubt the “Arab Spring” demonstrations and those that exploded in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere have inspired it. But underlying it all is the economic crisis, the massive unemployment and growing realization that nothing is getting better, and in fact we may be slipping into a “double dip” crisis. The crushing student debt and the feeling of being locked out of society with no future compound this.

The movement is the newest wrinkle in the all-people’s upsurge against the banks and corporations and reflects a new level of class-consciousness.

So, here we are, at the end of the Thanksgiving Holiday, and the Occupiers are still around.  However, regardless of what Liberals will tell you, they are not making friends and influencing people:

If anything, the Occupy crowd’s efforts have backfired. A new survey (as of 11/17/11) by the liberal-leaning Public Policy Polling finds just 33% now support the Occupy movement, down from a month ago and lower than the 42% who say they support the Tea Party. And Gallup finds more identify themselves as conservative today than did so two years ago.

Personally, I find myself agreeing with Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who had the following advice for the Occupiers:

Go get a job right after you take a bath!

Pop Quiz, Hot Shots:

Yesterday, President Barack Hussein Obama told a group:

You are the reason that I ran for office.

Whom was he speaking to?

A.  The Veterans of Foreign Wars

B.Those anonymous campaign donors from the Middle East

C.  The NBA

D.  Reggie Love

The answer is None of the Above:

President Obama was heckled on Tuesday during an appearance at a New Hampshire high school.

Obama had traveled north to the Granite State, which holds the nation’s first presidential primary, to discuss the economy and his proposal to extend a current payroll tax cut.

Just as the president started his speech, protesters, apparently from the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, used the “human mic” technique to amplify their voices. It was unclear what the protesters were saying, or what point they were attempting to make.

The president smiled through the disruption, saying: “No, it’s OK,” as other parts of the crowd sought to hush the protesters by chanting his name and old campaign slogan, “Yes We Can.”

“OK, guys,” Obama said after supporters drowned out the hecklers.

Obama to hecklers: ‘I’ll listen to you, you listen to me’

“I appreciate you guys making your point; let me go ahead and make mine,” Obama said before continuing his speech. “I’ll listen to you, you listen to me, OK?”

A few minutes later, Obama acknowledged the Occupy protest movement again, saying: “You are the reason I ran for office.”

So, the man who occupies the most important position in the world was trying to suck up to a bunch of depraved, publically-defecating, mom’s basement-dwelling, hygienically-challenged losers?

I’m not surprised.

Things just are not going very well for “the Lightbringer” these days.

When Obama arrived in the Granite State, he discovered that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney had left him a greeting in the form of full page newspaper ads and a television commercial attacking the president.

“Your policies have failed,” Mr. Romney writes in an “open letter” to the president that is running in the state’s three biggest newspapers — the Union Leader, Concord Monitor, and The Telegraph — less than two months out from New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary.

The full-page ads are part of a broader offensive that coincides with Mr. Obama’s visit Tuesday to the Granite State and includes Mr. Romney’s first television spot of the campaign season, which blasts Mr. Obama and features snippets of Mr. Romney’s campaign speeches.

“I am confident that we can steer ourselves out of this crisis,” the ad shows Mr. Obama saying in the old footage, before “He failed” spills across the screen. “We need a rescue plan for the middle class. We need to provide relief for homeowners.”

The ad then moves to Mr. Obama saying, “If we keep talking about the economy, we’re going to lose.”

The Democratic National Committee has already suggested the ad is deceitful because the footage used is of Mr. Obama quoting an aide from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2008.

On Tuesday, the DNC said that Mr. Romney’s career has been built on deceiving people.

Pot…meet kettle.

“When he was running for governor he looked pro-choice activists in the eye and said he’d protect a woman’s right to choose and would even take that position to Washington if he pursued national office — now he wants to overturn Roe V. Wade and supports so called “personhood” policies,” the DNC said in a press release. “No candidate in modern times has had more trouble with the truth than Mitt Romney.”

If anyone should be able to recognize a prevaricator when they see one, it’s the Democratic National Committee.

I’ll bet you thought that since they ran them out of city parks from coast to coast and then sanitized the parks, we had heard the last of the OWS movement?

Nope.  They’ve got big plans.  These immature idiots plan on boycotting Black Friday.

Per their website:

Keep in mind that we are not occupying small businesses or hardworking people—we must make a distinction between the businesses that are in the pockets of Wall Street and the businesses that serve our local communities.

We are NOT anti-capitalist. Just anti-crapitalist.

Below is a shortlist for publicly traded large businesses to Occupy or to boycott on Black Friday. Luckily, most of them don’t have good presents anyway. If you want to see the top 100 retail businesses for 2010 to boycott, click here.

On Black Friday, Occupy or boycott:

– Abercrombie & Fitch [ANF 45.85 -0.62 (-1.33%) ]

– Amazon.com (yes, we have to stay away from Amazon, too!) [AMZN 192.34 3.09 (+1.63%) ]

– AT&T Wireless [ATT 27.04 0.15 (+0.56%) ]

– Burlington Coat Factory

– Dick’s Sporting Goods (I was surprised, too!) [DSG-FF 28.935 0.055 (+0.19%) ]

– Dollar Tree [DLTR 77.09 1.40 (+1.85%) ]

– The Home Depot [HD 37.10 0.04 (+0.11%) ]

– Neiman Marcus

– OfficeMax [OMX 4.49 0.09 (+2.05%) ]

– Toys R’Us [JPM 29.41 -0.50 (-1.67%) ]

– Verizon Wireless [VZN 94.30 -0.40 (-0.42%) ]

– Wal-Mart [WMT 56.85 0.19 (+0.34%) ]

Solidarity!”

They probably sent the message out from their iPhones.

I tell you what, boys and girls.  C’mon down to DeSoto County, Mississippi and try to stand in front of that Michigander I married, my daughter-in-law, or any of the other little flowers of womanhood out before dawn’s early light in quest of bargains this Friday morning and see what happens.

You’ll wish you would have stayed in your Moms’ basements.

The bipartisan congressional Supercommittee, who were given the assignment of trying to come up with at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction announced yesterday that they have been as effective as Casey at the Bat:

They’ve struck out.

According to this august body, they are at loggerheads and the chance of success at this point equals the chance of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series.

Supercommittee co-chairs, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., announced:

After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline.

The declaration came late Monday afternoon in a written statement from the 12-member Joint Select Committee.

The committee come up a loser because the Republicans refused to raise taxes and cut defense spending and the Democrats said no to any entitlement reforms, because, after all, the elections are less than a year away.

The Supercommitte was created this summer under a law agreed to by Republicans and Democrats in the throes of political panic during the debt ceiling crisis.

Unfortunately, that very law allows the committee’s failure to trigger $1.2 trillion in automatic cuts over 10 years, starting in 2013.  Known as a sequestration, it will include cuts to spending on our National Defense.

Republican lawmakers are promising to immediately sponsor legislation to block those automatic cuts to the defense budget.

Our country’s deficit stands now at about $15 trillion. And things are not going to get any better, anytime soon. In fact, yesterday’s Stock Market freefall was in anticipation of the failure announcement by the Supercommittee.

President Barack Hussein Obama came on national television in a press conference after the Supercommittee’s announcement threatening to veto any attempts to get around the automatic cuts.

He basically told Congress that they had 1 more year to do it his way…or else.

That’s an awful nice system of checks and balances you got there…it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it…

Meanwhile, GOP Elite/Main Stream Media Favorite Mitt Romney tried to make a little political hay concerning the situation:

Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney criticized President Barack Obama on Sunday for refusing to intervene in congressional talks to cut the deficit.

With the so-called supercommittee at an impasse ahead of Wednesday’s deadline, Mr. Romney blamed the president for the apparent failure of the bipartisan panel, which was tasked with finding savings in excess of $1.2 trillion. He also called on Mr. Obama to introduce legislation to restore $600 billion in defense spending that will be cut automatically if the panel fails to offer alternatives.

“He hasn’t had any role,” Mr. Romney told roughly 200 supporters outside the city hall building in Nashua, where he appeared for a campaign event with Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte. “He’s done nothing. It’s another example of failed leadership.”

The problem Obama is beginning to face, as his re-election bid rolls along, it’s not just the opposition party who’s out gunning for him.  Some of his own political party are beginning to pile on, also.

ABC News’ Mary Bruce and Richard Esposito reported yesterday about one of the president’s staunchest minions…er…supporters who seems to be distancing himself just a little bit:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg today said the failure of the supercommittee is a “damning indictment of Washington’s inability to govern” and blamed President Obama in part for the breakdown of the debt talks.

“It’s the chief executive’s job to bring people together and to provide leadership in difficult situations. I don’t see that happening,” Bloomberg said at a news conference. “The failure of the committee will mean that thousands of jobs that would have been created will just go without being created. And thousands of men and women who would have gotten back to work will remain unemployed.”

Bloomberg, who has been rumored as a potential third-party candidate in the upcoming presidential elections, criticized both parties for their lack of action.

“I think it’s a failure, you know people say, who do you blame? The blame is both sides of the aisle and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue,” he said.

The White House has defended the president’s engagement with the super-committee.

“This committee was established by an act of Congress. It was comprised of members of Congress. Instead of pointing fingers and playing the blame game, Congress should act, fulfill its responsibility,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Monday.

Obama and the Democrats pulled for the formation of this Supercommittee in order to lay a trap for Republicans, by showing them as unwilling to compromise.

The problem for Obama and his political party is that it is exposing his failure of leadership, even more.

And Republicans holding fast on National Defense Spending is not exactly a negative message.