The Republican Party and the Tea Party have humiliated the US

before the entire world. I am ashamed and embarrassed for US. How much worse can it get when we have China lecturing US on responsible governing? How much worse can it get when we have Republican leaders taking pot shots at US this morning from their vacation homes? How much worse can it get when a major political party has not one single voice of reason and is bent on the destruction of the Nation? How much worse can it get when S&P, the poster child for financial irresponsibility, was probably right to downgrade US under the circumstances? Not much worse than this, I fear.

before it ever gets better.

They really are out to destroy the USA and all that made us a great nation

I spent a lot of time in Europe during the Bush Debacle. I spent a lot of time throwing Repblicans under the bus. IE - it's not me - I didn't vote for these people, the idiots in America did on the Right. Point proven once again, and once again . . . I'm throwing them under the bus this fall.

that this country is the best in and at everything.

A euphemism for master race.

As far as I can tell, when Teapublicans talk about "American exceptionalism", they mean a President like Bush who swaggers around being rude to other world leaders. It doesn't seem to be related to anything about America actually being exceptional.

I don't think they realize the consequences.

I don't think they've looked beyond the end of their noses.

They (unfortunately) have to live on this planet, too.

up here in NH. I am all too familiar with the Free Staters and if you Google the name you can see what they stand for. Many Free Staters are members of the Tea Party. They want to destroy government, plain and simple. Many of them are religious fundamentalists. Their ideology blinds them. They are not rational and they don't give a rat's ass about anyone else. This is why they are so dangerous.

They really believe they can tough it out alone, eh?

The teabagger image that typically comes to my mind is the geezer with his oxygen bottle strapped to a Mobility Scooter with tiny American flags on the handlebars and a misspelled sign taped to his three-cornerd hat.

The hardcore group is much scarier.

over the college campuses up here which is very scary.

have embraced the Reagan mantra that, "Government IS the problem." They are too fucking stupid to know better.

Speaking of Republican government, of course.

In Wisconsin, for example, the government is the problem.

so that they can point to it and say, "see, we told you it couldn't work." I'm really not convinced that these people are as stupid as we'd like to think they are.

I do not believe it would have even been an issue at all if they had simply approved the debt limit, like always in the past, and then worked to resolve the problems with the debt or whatever. Yes, the Republicans and the Tea Party are mostly responsible for this downgrade.

this morning a spokesperson for S&P was asked what could have been done differently and he said that they could have decreased entitlements. this tells me that the GOP is involved and that they were probably going to lower the credit rating as a power play to back the GOP and make things look bad for President Obama. I think this is treasonous behavior and is totally irresponsible but I wouldn't put it past them. We are in some scarey times, my friends. The Dems and Independants need to stand up and get pissed at the dirty tricks that are being played. The only way to economic recovery is to strengthen the middle class. They are the only ones who will spend the money to support small businesses. Why can't people see that the weakening of the middle class is what is killing spending and the economy??!!

according to an estimate I read a year or so ago. That includes the strength of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, the petro-dollar system that Reagan established, the strength of US bonds as the world's most reliable safety net in volatile times, and so forth. All of that is essentially based on trust, which is too easily taken for granted; it can disappear overnight.

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And the American people for not standing up and ending this stupidity now.

where the blame lies. Not a good time to be a member of the former administration.
Foreign officials will be asked 'what the hell happened?'. They will voice the truth.

the absolute backwards statements and lack of action on the environment. Ashamed of the crimes that they allow to continue and even defend. Ashamed that Bachmann and T-Paw appear to the public to represent MN. They do not.

All this is aimed at making Obama fail, so that the black guy gets out of the Oval Office. The Teabaggers are willing to take this nation down to get rid of one man that scares them to death.

Very good OP, although I believe that things can -- and will -- get much worse in the next few years.

For all the trolls, I saved you the trouble.

the United States or the poor and middle class,those people must be living under a rock and in denial.

he's been on the ropes his entire presidency and I am SICK of it

"how much worse can it get"... Never ever ask that unless you are really prepared for the answer. Have you ever heard of Carthage?

THEY PUT PARTY AND IDEOLOGY BEFORE COUNTRY.

they have made us weaker in the eyes of the rest of the world.

time for us to take back the word patriot ;)

is owned by a man named McGraw who supports Romney. The whole S&P downgrade is a political ploy, nothing more.

Harold McGraw III
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/site/about-us/executive-profiles

Harold McGraw is listed as a Romney supporter here:

http://www.nndb.com/org/745/000167244/

Harold McGraw was a big Bush/Cheney supporter also.

So, the S&P downgrade is just Republican politics as usual -- nothing to see, just pass it by.

Killing all the safety nets --

Destroying unemployment insurance and the economy -- though I imagine they'll

prefer to destroy the economy by stealing everything!

The WORST is that they aren't only bringing us a "third world America" -- they

have given us Global Warming -- and there is no more serious issue than that!!


We are about now to feel the effects of our human activity post-1960!!!

Imagine all that we did after that period of time!

And our Congress is under the control of the oil and coal industries -- as reported

by Al Gore in his Rolling Stone article.

Don't think he mentioned that, however, in his 2000 campaign!

The reason the party faithful has not completely abandoned them is only due to their near complete control of the traditional media. They have a near perfect foil in President Obama. "Just look what this ni**er has done to your country." They will say it until the polls close in November of 2012.

Otoh, a poll I posted yesterday shows the nation standing against the T-baggers --

Congress - and Obama --

despite that they gave Obama a huge mandate in 2008 --

Dissatisfaction with Obama certainly isn't based on racism and can only trust that

the GOP is only able to sell that view to the already racist T-baggers?


Agree -- we have a Goebbels' style corporate-press -- but where was Democratic

Congress when all of that was happening?

this is the message that needs to get out all the way till november 2012

But traditional Republicans and Democrats that have allowed the military industrial complex to co-opt the economic resources of the United States, at the expense of the nation, are also an embarrassment. And those in power that are protecting the criminals on Wall Street -they are an embarrassment.

No one in government today can escape blame. Over the past decade our government has been a dismal failure. George W Bush set the record for poor governance. It seems the Obama Administration, rather than see Bush Administration as an example of what not to do, have embraced their policies. Obama has to know that he was swept into office because people were appalled by the corrupt dishonest Bush Administration.

What are they thinking?