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The One Blames "Politics" - Only Their Politics
Where's the Irony Meter? The quote is from a CNN article dated August 12th, but I heard this quoted on the DC radio this morning as though it was spoken yesterday: Last week's first-ever downgrade of the U.S. credit rating by Standard & Poor's "could have been entirely avoided if there had been a willingness to compromise in Congress," the president said, adding: "It didn't happen because we didn't have the capacity to pay our bills. It happened because Washington doesn't have the capacity to come together and get things done." Which is clearly the fault of the Trunks, and especially the Tea-pers. I guess we rubes are all supposed to have forgotten that The Zero had a deal with Speaker Boehner several days before it became a "crisis", said deal included $800 billion in new revenue, but El Presidente wanted another $400 bill, as his last 'goodie' - his "best and final offer." Talks then collapsed. But that's not the kind of "politics" that the President disparages. Maybe he did say something like this yesterday, but I can't find anything like this less than four days old. What S&P really said was this: Standard & Poor's report stated that the "political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed." Link Less stable, less effective, and less predictable - I wonder if the guy at the top has anything to do with that? Posted by: Bobby 2011-08-16 |
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