[brent13a]

Oh my, the first comment at Reuters is a hoot.

I've been reading the S&P press release and from what I've been reading what is going to have to be politically devastating for the dems is that S&P puts 98% of the blame on the Administration's and Congress' feet for not lowering our spending even more. I see very little talk in the Release about "failure to raise taxes or revenue" and mostly talk about our national debt and how it's going to keep rising.

I don't see hardly anything that Obama or the Dems can pin blame directly on the Tea Party or Repubs. It looks to me like S&P squarely places the blame at Obama's and the dem's feet.

[kearnyirish2]

I posted on another thread how shocked I was that a normal news broadcast (usually pro-Obama, pro-Communist) stated that he wanted to delay any budget cuts until after the 2012 election. I’d never heard that in clear, non-accented English before on the radio; somebody probably got executed for letting that by the censors...

[llandres]

“I don’t see hardly anything that Obama or the Dems can pin blame directly on the Tea Party or Repubs. It looks to me like S&P squarely places the blame at Obama’s and the dem’s feet.”

We’d better start pointing that out publicly, loudly and clearly, ‘cuz the lefties are already spinning it otherwise. Watching Anderson Cooper - much talk about how no one should “politicize” this and how important it is for politicians to all “work together”. He read a statement from Harry Reid saying this points out how much we MUST have a “balanced approach” with cuts AND raising revenues.

Yup, they’re falling all over themselves in panic over there at CNN.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I can just see Reagan debating the Obammunist: “ There you go again “ LOL!