The creditworthiness of the US is already weakened. Every analyst knows it. It doesn’t take the rating agencies to tell people what kind of state government finances are in. How much longer the rating agencies wait before acknowledging the obvious just depends on when Obama will allow them to announce the obvious.
If Obama can cut a deal that gets him past the election, then he removes out-of-control spending and debt as an election issue.
The Dems win if the election is about personalities and platitudes, because of the power of the MSM and the entertainment industries.
The only way we win is if the electorate is forced to rub their faces in the question of out-of control government bankrupting us during the election season.
Get us to next fall, and let’s have the real fight on spending and the size of the government at a time when the fight does not just involve politicians in Congress and Obama, but the American voters as well.
great points, especially this:
“If Obama can cut a deal that gets him past the election, then he removes out-of-control spending and debt as an election issue.”
i think i misunderstood before, about a temporary deal.
and if the inevitable credit downgrade occurs before the election, it should make your plan work even better