Posted on 08/07/2011 9:56:28 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Axelrod: This was a 'tea party downgrade' By Meghashyam Mali - 08/07/11 11:37 AM ET
Top Obama strategist David Axelrod criticized Republicans over their handling of the debt-ceiling negotiations which he argued led to Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade the nation’s credit rating Friday.
This was a “tea party downgrade,” said Axelrod on CBS News’ Face the Nation.
Axelrod said S&P’s decision was “largely a political analysis.” “And that's what we should focus on because what they were saying is they want to see the political system work. They want to see a sense of compromise. They want to see the kind of solution that the president has been fighting for, a large solution that will deal with the problem, that will be balanced, that will include revenues.”
Instead, said Axelrod, conservative, Tea Party-influenced Republicans “played brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States. And this was the result of that.”
“It was the wrong thing to do to push the country to that point” he said. “And it's something that should never have happened. And that clearly is on the backs of those who were willing to see the country default, those very strident voices in the tea party.”
They got their talking points together. Absolutely without shame.
Compromise = agreeing with democrats.
How dare common citizens demand that the government stop spending borrowed money!!! Let’s print some more cash and we’ll prosper!!!
1) obama’s spending had a little to do with it.
2) I thought it was due to a mathematical error.
Yes of course.
The Tea Party administration.
Oh wait...
Don’t suppose anyone challenged this smarmy pos?
Friday, I was calling it the Obama Downgrade online, everywhere.
I swear I think they gather comments from sites, then turn those words around.....
This is like a group of people trying to get out of a burning building. For the time being it doesn’t really matter who started the fire.
A huge part of the blame needs to be placed on Axelrod and the Democrat Party for not passing a budget before the last election.
The one group that shouldn’t be held responsible for this, who said STOP IT and STOP IT NOW, are the ones the Obama parrots come out to blame.
Why is Obama AWOL?
He seriously thinks this isn’t going to stick to him?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
This is his waterloo. His 9-11.
“Clock strikes twelve and moonbats burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman’s face
His reason tends to fly away”
This is going to work about as well for democrats, as blaming Governor Palin for the leftwing nutjob in Arizona.
Palin is very likely to be nominated, presuming she runs.
Yep, the TEA Party shoulda held Boner hostage.
The Big Lie is a propaganda technique. The expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, for a lie so “colossal” that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” Hitler believed the technique was used by Jews to unfairly blame Germany’s loss in World War I on German Army officer Erich Ludendorff.
His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.
Yup “Tea party down grade” is the phrase of the day. The Kenyan lizard king ran up spending and presented the bill to the Tea Party.
Not going to work though. Raising taxes will not attract political support.
It’s the Teat Party (’Rats +
RINOs) downgrade.
WHERE are the republicans in front of the Sunday talking heads, saying in these words:
You’re utterly full of crap, and you know it!
Where?...
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