This post was given to me in a different thread and needs to be read by those who blame the Tea Party for the S&P downgrade.
S&P’s John Chambers is IN FACT TELLING PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO THE CONCERNS OF THE TEA PARTY.
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From Para-Ord.45, yesterday comes this quote, which needs to be stated often!
-S&P exec John Chambers,
“But $4 trillion would be a good down payment. We thought that..if policy makers could deliver the goods on that, then that would be a strong sign on our political scores and eventually on our projections on the fiscal side.”
S&P has already said it may slash the Triple-A rating if a debt ceiling deal is not accompanied by what it deems is a credible plan to cut the $14.3 trillion federal [debt] by $4 trillion.
S&P’s Chambers is saying the ratings agency wants to see at least a $4 trillion deal, one that would come with bipartisan support.
There was only ever one plan that did what S&P said was required — $4 trillion in cuts with bipartisan support. That’d be Cut, Cap, and Balance — a plan that cut $4 trillion and got bipartisan support in the House of Representatives.
As Democrats tonight, and some Republicans, lash out and blame the Tea Party for causing the United States to lose its credit rating, it is worth pointing out that only the Tea Party offered up a plan to avoid what happened.-
As Democrats tonight, and some Republicans, lash out and blame the Tea Party for causing the United States to lose its credit rating, it is worth pointing out that only the Tea Party offered up a plan to avoid what happened.-
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This is true but nobody is really touching entitlements and we all know that is where the problem lies. As long as the GOP is afraid (conventional wisdom says they are right) to touch entitlements we will continue to spiral downward. I don’t see many reasons for optimism that the GOP will tackle entitlements. The Tea Party will increase voter turn-out so the opportunity has never been better for the GOP. If they don’t get it done in 2012 it probably won’t happen. We are running out of time.