[Arm_Bears]

The big lie going into this fiasco was that America was on the brink of default.

The big lie coming out of this fiasco is that the TEA Party were the big winners.

[Aevery_Freeman]

BUT we have the opportunity to act as winners and perpetuate the meme.

A big lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.

[I-ambush]

I thought “L7” meant one was a “square”(and I can’t recall the last time I heard anyone actually being called one).

[freekitty]

The default is very real. We are 52 trillion dollars in debt; but what is strangling our system is the compounded interest. I have no idea if we can pull ourselves out of this. We shall see.

The Tea Party did not get a victory because they didn’t do a damn thing.

[Justa]

In reality the “threat” was a government shutdown with funding limited to monthly receipts aka a balanced budget. This would have been a TEA party win.

In reality the solution became no shutdown, increased spending and increased taxes past the 2012 election. Ergo a huge win for Democrats and liberals.

[CynicalBear]

>> The big lie coming out of this fiasco is that the TEA Party were the big winners.<<

Can you tell me what the agreement would have been had the TEA party not had any influence in either the “10 elections or throughout these discussions?