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White House adviser blames tea party for downgrade (Axelrod)
Yahoo ^ | 8/7/11 | AP

Posted on 08/07/2011 10:08:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser is blaming the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on tea party Republicans, whom he says were unwilling to compromise on how to reduce the federal debt.

The adviser to President Barack Obama, David Axelrod, tells CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday ..

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.. also criticized GOP presidential candidates for not speaking up in favor of compromise.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


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To: bert

YEP


121 posted on 08/07/2011 2:47:19 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: DoughtyOne; stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; KansasGirl; SeekAndFind; NormsRevenge; Marine_Uncle
RE :”The sad thing is, the Republican leadership probably did get 95% of what they wanted. If only the Republican faithful could grasp that.

Put another way, the final Obama-Boehner bill got 95% of the watered down Boehner bill that he pushed on House Republicans to vote for that Friday afternoon, which is now what he is calling 100% of what Republicans wanted. Rush warned that Democrats would treat that bill as the ‘Republicans starting point in negotiations’, but it turned out that it was Boehner that would do that against House conservatives.

Fail!

122 posted on 08/07/2011 3:41:58 PM PDT by sickoflibs (If you pay zero Federal income taxes, don't say you are paying your 'fair share')
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To: NormsRevenge

Right. All this is coming from the one of the same guys who said the porkulus would work. I think he’s spent whatever political capital he ever had on that big stinker.


123 posted on 08/07/2011 4:58:37 PM PDT by dajeeps
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To: NormsRevenge

lol!!!!

TALK ABOUT AN ACT OF DESPERATION : )


124 posted on 08/07/2011 6:10:23 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: NormsRevenge

If you had an unlimited number of Democrats typing randomly at an unlimited number of keyboards, sooner or later one would type the words “A Budget Can Be Balanced By Spending Cuts”


125 posted on 08/07/2011 6:10:49 PM PDT by GrinFranklin
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

TUMP HAS TOLD THE TRUTH ALL THE WAY DOWN THE LINE.....BONER, ON THE OTHER HAND, SOLD US OUT AT THE 19TH HOLE FOR A BOTTLE OF SCOTCH.


126 posted on 08/07/2011 6:12:24 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: bray
What TEA PARTY?

does he mean the American taxpayers/voters who are taxed enough already and are finally speaking up?

when will this bunch of hoods grow up and start taking responsibility???

Axelrod makes me ill just to look at him...scary

127 posted on 08/07/2011 6:33:49 PM PDT by haircutter
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To: NormsRevenge

TheLeading Wing of the Democrats are the TEAT Party, while the GOP is shaped by the forces of the TEA Party.

One is GREAT for the Country the other is good at parasitically sucking for all they can get out of the System.


128 posted on 08/07/2011 6:35:05 PM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: Eva
Obama has to blame someone, he can’t blame Bush any more. CBS and the NYT has a poll out that says that public support for the TEA Party has been cut in half since the debt deal. Blame the TEA Party is the new talking point.

Trial Ballon. All it takes is for our side to stay on message, and it won't work. The TEA Party were/are the ones that said cut spending - the same thing everyone one else (except democrats) are saying. The dems are clueless - and now engaging in scorched earth.

129 posted on 08/07/2011 7:18:16 PM PDT by jimjohn
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To: Eva

“CBS and the NYT has a poll out that says that public support for the TEA Party has been cut in half since the debt deal.”

Hey, I like myself as much now as I did before the “obammy debt deal”. But, then, they never ask me.....


130 posted on 08/07/2011 7:33:39 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: NormsRevenge
Only got one thing to say to Mr. Axelrod:


131 posted on 08/07/2011 7:35:13 PM PDT by Oceander (The phrase "good enough for government work" is not meant as a compliment)
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To: chimera

“Until that changes, it will be the same old story.”

Which brings us back to the obvious. How the hell do WE change things? The only thing I can think of, is hound the HELL out of every registered Republican, come 2012. We are all we have. Sarah is the only person in our party who is strong/gutsy enough to put the obammy media whores in their place. If she throws her hat into the ring, we, I mean each and every one of us, have to get off our collective asses and FIGHT!!! This is war. We define it on our terms. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!!! And, the first media slut that sticks a microphone in my face, will damn well regret it.


132 posted on 08/07/2011 7:52:00 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: KansasGirl

“I’m going to work my butt off to make sure this lying liberals go down to such a massive defeat it will make 2010 look like just a minor landslide!”

Count me in. I thought I worked hard in 2010. Damn those frigging torpedoes, FULL speed ahead!!!!!!


133 posted on 08/07/2011 8:00:25 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: haircutter

“Axelrod makes me ill just to look at him...scary”

Hey, axelfraud - you look like you ben whooped wid a ugly stick....

I ain’ got nuthin’ tah do widdit, but I beleee da fella’s right.


134 posted on 08/07/2011 8:13:25 PM PDT by jivin gene (Breakin' up is hard to do)
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To: silverleaf

Another Chicago red heard from, and ignored.

Still stuck on stupid, eh David?


135 posted on 08/07/2011 9:14:57 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: sickoflibs
Boehner MUST be forced to resign. He is even MORE stupid than Chamberlain in 1938.

He can NEVER be forgiven is insipid appeasement.

136 posted on 08/07/2011 10:20:15 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
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To: NormsRevenge

Some freeper sent me an email saying the same thing two days ago. Called himself a conservative...which of course i pushed back on. Troll.


137 posted on 08/08/2011 12:23:38 AM PDT by jilliane
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To: sickoflibs
Col. Erhardt (Charles Durning) in To be or not to be:

"You're always shifting the blame. Shift, shift shift, that's all you do!"


138 posted on 08/08/2011 12:39:35 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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To: NormsRevenge

The TEA Party didn’t run up the debt. They were the only ones fighting against more debt.


139 posted on 08/08/2011 2:15:16 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NormsRevenge
Let's playyyyyyyyy.....Spot The Madman!


140 posted on 08/08/2011 4:08:10 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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