"Cut, Cap & Balance" offered $4T in cuts which is what the ratings agencies asked for. It passed the House under Boehner with a bipartisan vote. CCB was the "Tea Party" plan.
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Exactly the 2 points I was going to make.
You can depend that "Tea Party downgrade" was focus-group tested, as is every Talking Point before they choose which designated propagandists will get the Big Lie snowball started so that the State Propagandist Media can report the quote and perpetuate and accentuate the Big Lie Talking Point.
CC&B --- It was well known by both parties that the rating agencies stated that $4 trillion needed to be cut to avoid probable downgrade.
Are we going to see a token Repub step forward next to keep the Big Lie rolling, or are they going to keep silent and let the Dems do their dirty work?
White House adviser blames tea party for downgrade (Axelrod)
(See post 14)