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(Freep This Poll!) Who's to blame for US debt downgrade?
MSNBC ^ | August 5, 2011 | Business Newsvine

Posted on 08/05/2011 9:06:56 PM PDT by JohnBrownUSA

Who do you think is most to blame for the US losing its stellar credit rating?

6.8% Congress 111 votes

18% Obama administration 295 votes

26.4% Republicans 433 votes

4.3% Democrats 71 votes

19.5% Tea party 320 votes

25% All of the above 410 votes

(Excerpt) Read more at business.newsvine.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; creditrating; debt; msnbc; sp
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1 posted on 08/05/2011 9:07:00 PM PDT by JohnBrownUSA
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To: JohnBrownUSA

100 years of creeping Progressivism was not a choice....


2 posted on 08/05/2011 9:08:15 PM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

MSNBC viewers are obviously not very bright.


3 posted on 08/05/2011 9:10:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open ( <o> ---)
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To: JohnBrownUSA; Joe Brower; seekthetruth; FARS; bitt; JohnHuang2; MinuteGal

Please PING to this poll...


4 posted on 08/05/2011 9:11:43 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (The Constitution is an instrument to protect 'We the People' from the government..)
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To: PGR88

Amen.


5 posted on 08/05/2011 9:12:25 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

6 posted on 08/05/2011 9:12:36 PM PDT by Brandonmark (2012: Our Hope IS Change!)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

The Demorats doesn’t register a new vote. It’s rigged.


7 posted on 08/05/2011 9:13:09 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

Some of the comments with the po;; make me want to grab these blind liberal idiots and just shake the snot out of them!!!!


8 posted on 08/05/2011 9:13:27 PM PDT by mardi59 (T)
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To: mardi59

I had to laugh at the idiots trying to blame the tea party!


9 posted on 08/05/2011 9:14:55 PM PDT by Netizen
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To: PGR88

Yes, and the Fed Reserve plus Wall Street were not choices. Congress responded to their wishes since 1912, and still do.


10 posted on 08/05/2011 9:15:08 PM PDT by givemELL (Does Taiwan eet the Criteria to Qualify as an "Overseas Territory of the United States"? by Richar)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

What is the point of playing with these delusional MSNBC types?

How pray tell is the Tea party responsible in any way sharp or form?

This country is nutso.


11 posted on 08/05/2011 9:15:43 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: JohnBrownUSA
S&P is pretty clear about who they balme:

"The downgrade reflects our opinion that the fiscal consolidation plan that Congress and the Administration recently agreed to falls short of what, in our view, would be necessary to stabilize the government's medium-term debt dynamics," Standard & Poor's said in a press release.

"More broadly, the downgrade reflects our view that the effectiveness, stability, and predictability of American policymaking and political institutions have weakened at a time of ongoing fiscal and economic challenges to a degree more than we envisioned when we assigned a negative outlook to the rating on April 18, 2011," the statement continues.

12 posted on 08/05/2011 9:16:34 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Don't just live your life, but witness it also.")
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To: JohnBrownUSA

Ping.


13 posted on 08/05/2011 9:16:39 PM PDT by agrarianlady
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To: JohnBrownUSA

ITS OBAMA’S FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


14 posted on 08/05/2011 9:18:59 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: JohnBrownUSA

Boehner and Congress bailed! So We should have left the ball in the Senate’s court rather than dessert our goals! But actually, this is the fault of the Obama administration and Harry Reid just doing what they always intended to do!

It will be interesting to see what else Obama did to us while our eye was focused on the crisis he created!


15 posted on 08/05/2011 9:22:53 PM PDT by Paperdoll (NO MORE BUSHS!)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

Total of 3,780 votes

6.6%
Congress
251 votes

19.6%
Obama administration
739 votes

27.6%
Republicans
1,044 votes

4.6%
Democrats
173 votes

18.7%
Tea party
707 votes

22.9%
All of the above
866 votes


16 posted on 08/05/2011 9:24:51 PM PDT by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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17 posted on 08/05/2011 9:25:36 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: PGR88

Neither was FDR, Lyndon Johnson and Ted Kennedy.


18 posted on 08/05/2011 9:27:25 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives" - Ataturk)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

Obama.

All members of Congress who voted for TARP, the “stimulus” packages” and Obamacare, among other things.

All people who voted for Obama.

Previous admininstrations and their Congresses who assisted the communists in getting to this point.


19 posted on 08/05/2011 9:27:25 PM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: JohnBrownUSA

MSNBC is owned by GE.

The don’t pay taxes then use the savings to build plants in China.

F what MSNBC thinks.

They aren’t involved in this.


20 posted on 08/05/2011 9:27:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Life as Nancy Pelosi knows & wants it, must end, Life As Nancy Knows it is to raise Debt 10% annualy)
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