I hope Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glen Beck and the rest of the Conservative/Libertarian talkers in the media hammer home this fact starting tomorrow.
The Debt Deal IS normal Washington procedure in action. It is exactly this typical DC procedure of kicking the political can down the road that lead to the US Downgrade. S&P is reacting to that "normal political process" to downgrade us since our political class shows it is NOT serious about addressing this problem!
Of course the fact that his regimes Socialistic mandates have collapsed almost everything/everywhere was never brought up. But then that's another story.