[mdittmar]

OMG!,rooters,moody's says...

[Doogle]

unexpectedly.

[boomop1]

Just opened a beer to cry in it, NOT.

[COUNTrecount]

Call me crazy but if you keep borrowing money that you can’t

pay back and make no attempt to pay down the principal or

stop spending, wouldn’t that make you a poor credit risk?

So where is the unexpected surprise?

[SueRae]

With all due respect, eff Moody’s. They led us down the garden path on the housing and banking crises in 2008, what makes them the be all to end all authority now?

[sappy]

Good job Democrats. killing the only bill presented. now thats what i call compormise and putting the people above politics.

[Gator113]

I see, so it was only a threat that can be piled onto the B.S. of T. (big stack of threats).

Everything has the stench of Obama and his democrats... EVERYTHING.

[Brilliant]

Moody’s is almost as clueless as the Democrats.

[twister881]

Of course, it doesn't matter that the major institutional owner of Moody's is Berkshire Hathaway, ‘Rat-loving Warren Buffet's conglomerate. Or that the chairman and CEO of Moody's, Raymond McDaniel, Jr., last year gave $1,000 to Chris Dodd (’Rat-CT), one of the principle architects or our national financial collapse and The Hero of Chappaquiddick’s main boozing partner, even though Dodd was retiring from the Senate to sit on his cash pile.

This all stinks of a 'Rat-inspired pressure game to get conservatives to cave over threats of bond rating downgrades.

[socialism_stinX]

After a brief selloff, a debt downgrade would not have any effect on treasury bond prices and interest rates. That’s because the bond market knows everything the ratings agencies know and a downgrade is already priced into the treasury bond market.

[Cheetahcat]

Well with economic Idiots, running the place, we are lucky the lights are still on!