{"id":26115,"date":"2011-08-08T08:22:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=26115"},"modified":"2011-08-08T08:22:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:22:45","slug":"the-tea-party-downgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=26115","title":{"rendered":"The “Tea Party Downgrade”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I’m sitting watching the Democrats throw fingers everywhere but at each other for the Standard and Poor’s downgrade of our Treasury paper. John Kerry and David Axelrod use the phrase “Tea party downgrade” in separate interviews yesterday<\/a>…as if it had been coordinated or something;<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe this is, without question, the tea party downgrade,\u201d Sen. John F. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, said on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d on Sunday, a day that also saw mounting anxieties in world markets over the downgrade among myriad other economic woes worldwide. Some of the world\u2019s top financial ministers issued a joint statement Sunday night committing themselves to preserve the stability of financial markets and their economies.<\/p>\n

David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to President Obama, used the exact same phrase in dubbing the credit rating drop the \u201ctea party downgrade,\u201d as Democrats tried to position themselves as reasonable, pragmatic leaders and conservative Republicans as irresponsible ideologues who caused the downgrade by refusing to accept any new taxes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile Barney Franks blames<\/a>…who else…the military;<\/p>\n

Frank says the military establishment has always had this “great momentum” in politics, but says the credit reversal “could change our thinking.” Frank calls the military a logical target “if we’re looking for something that breaks the mold” on spending.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess they couldn’t think of blaming the people who controlled government purse strings from 2007 until last January – the same people who couldn’t pass a budget despite being in the majority in both the House and the Senate. The people who passed the health care bill without reading it and used fuzzy math to justify doing the healythcare bill when we couldn’t afford it. The people who only now admit that the “shovel ready” jobs didn’t exist and they knew it when they were funding them. <\/p>\n

But it’s the tea party’s fault suddenly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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