Benghazi report blames systematic State Department management and leadership failures for gross security lapses: Hillary in hiding...

In October, Hillary Clinton said she's responsible for the security of American diplomatic outposts. Now, she has a very mysterious and convenient concussion.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The leaders of an independent panel that blamed systematic State Department management and leadership failures for gross security lapses in the deadly Sept. 11 attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya will explain their findings to Congress on Wednesday.

The two most senior members of the Accountability Review Board are set to testify behind closed doors before the House and Senate foreign affairs committees on the classified findings of their harshly critical report.

An unclassified version released late Tuesday said serious bureaucratic mismanagement was responsible for the inadequate security at the mission in Benghazi where the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed.

Hero: Texas Gov. Rick Perry hopes fed government doesn't have knee jerk reaction on gun control

TX Gov Perry asked by audience about increased calls for gun control. Said he hope fed government does not have knee jerk reaction
— Jason Allen (@CBS11JasonAllen) December 18, 2012

Change: So-Called Democratic “Moderates” Call For More Gun Control (Video)

The election season is now officially over...



Claire McCaskill to NRA: “Score this!”

Good News: Obama to put Joe Biden in charge of gun control initiative...

This will go about as well as the Stimulus tracking and Recovery Summer...

Via WaPo:

President Obama on Monday began the first serious push of his administration to attempt to reduce gun violence, directing Cabinet members to formulate a set of proposals that could include reinstating a ban on assault rifles.

The effort will be led by Vice President Biden, according to two people outside the government who have spoken to senior administration officials since Friday, when a gunman killed his mother and rampaged through Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., killing 20 children, six adults and himself.

The tentative steps ended a paralyzing debate within the administration over how hard to pursue gun-control legislation, which has been a politically perilous issue for many Democrats. There were signs Monday, however, that such fear was abating on the Democratic side of the aisle.

Obama Flashback 2008: "If you are a law abiding gun owner, you have nothing to fear from an Obama administration"

Obama to gun owners in 2008: 'You have nothing to fear from an Obama administration'

Democrats diss "Plan B"

Let's go over the cliff. Democrats deserve it...

Via Roll Call:

The White House and congressional Democrats swiftly panned Speaker John A. Boehner’s plan to push legislation in the House that would let tax rates rise only for millionaires, the Ohio Republican’s “plan B” to avert the fiscal cliff.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney issued a statement saying the president remains willing to work with Republicans to reach a bipartisan solution to the fiscal cliff and he is “hopeful” they will.

The president, however, “is not willing to accept a deal that doesn’t ask enough of the very wealthiest in taxes and instead shifts the burden to the middle class and seniors,” Carney said. “The Speaker’s ‘Plan B’ approach doesn’t meet this test because it can’t pass the Senate and therefore will not protect middle class families, and does little to address our fiscal challenges with zero spending cuts.”

I still think the House should pass Simpson-Bowles. It contains less in tax increases and much more in spending cuts than anything Boehner  is likely to negotiate with Obama. Obama and Democrats could refuse to pass it, but since it was proposed by a bipartisan commission Obama cre4ated. That would throw the blame squarely on Obama and democrats.

Report: Sandy Hook Gunman snapped because mom was planning on committing him...

If this report is true, she was too slow and very foolish to allow her psycho son access to guns...

NEWTOWN, Conn. –  The gunman who slaughtered 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school may have snapped because his mother was planning to commit him to a psychiatric facility, according to a lifelong resident of the area who was familiar with the killer’s family and several of the victims’ families.

Adam Lanza, 20, targeted Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown after killing his mother early Friday because he believed she loved the school “more than she loved him,” said Joshua Flashman, 25, who grew up not far from where the shooting took place. Flashman, a U.S. Marine, is the son of a pastor at an area church where many of the victims' families worship.

“From what I've been told, Adam was aware of her petitioning the court for conservatorship and (her) plans to have him committed," Flashman told FoxNews.com. "Adam was apparently very upset about this. He thought she just wanted to send him away. From what I understand, he was really, really angry. I think this could have been it, what set him off.”

We now owe our foreign masters $5.48 trillion

Let's hope they don't want to collect, anytime soon. 

WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign demand for U.S. Treasury securities rose to a record level in October, a sign that overseas investors remain confident in U.S. debt despite a potential budget crisis.

Total foreign holdings reached $5.48 trillion in October, the Treasury Department said Monday. That’s up 0.1 percent from September.

China, the largest holder of U.S. government debt, increased its holdings slightly to $1.16 trillion. Japan, the second-largest holder, boosted its holdings by a smaller amount to $1.13 trillion. Brazil, the country with the third-largest holdings, increased its total to $255.2 billion.