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View Poll Results: If CCB had passed, would our Credit Rating have been cut?
Yes, it still would have. We're just in too deep. 55 36.18%
No. It would have shown we were serious about getting spending under control. 93 61.18%
I don't care, I want to keep spending like it's 1999. 4 2.63%
Voters: 152. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-07-2011, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Texas State Fair
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Tea Party Cheers Credit Downgrade

I think it's more cheering the forced recognition of reality and the abysmal lack of real leadership in Washington DC.

As in... 'Yeah, the beast is finally going to be subdued'

We'll get through it but obviously with no assist from Mother Jones' sucklets.
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Old 08-07-2011, 08:57 PM
 
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Both. The tea party and far right are hellbent on destroying the country at all costs.
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Old 08-07-2011, 08:57 PM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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LOL!!!


I would cheer too, if I was trying to be framed, for someone else's big mistake.
It means I'm making a big impact on the corruption and lies coming from Washington.

S&P is in the Washington Machines, back pocket.
It is all a ploy to convince the citizens to raise taxes.

Who is S&P to make a call how to fix our economy. That isn't their job, and there are a 100 things that will accomplish the same thing a tax hike will do.
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:00 PM
 
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Both. The tea party and far right are hellbent on destroying the country at all costs.
...another well thought out statement.....
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:01 PM
 
Location: State of Being
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Both. The tea party and far right are hellbent on destroying the country at all costs.
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Oh, that is ridiculous. No one in this country is cheering the crisis we are in, unless they are members of the Communist party.
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:03 PM
 
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Tea Party Cheers Credit Downgrade

I think it's more cheering the forced recognition of reality and the abysmal lack of real leadership in Washington DC.

As in... 'Yeah, the beast is finally going to be subdued'

We'll get through it but obviously with no assist from Mother Jones' sucklets.
Sounds like something Al Qaeda would say. "Yay, America is falling!"
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:04 PM
 
Location: State of Being
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LOL!!!


I would cheer too, if I was trying to be framed, for someone else's big mistake.
It means I'm making a big impact on the corruption and lies coming from Washington.

S&P is in the Washington Machines, back pocket.
It is all a ploy to convince the citizens to raise taxes.

Who is S&P to make a call how to fix our economy. That isn't their job, and there are a 100 things that will accomplish the same thing a tax hike will do.
Well, the ratings agencies were sure effective when it came to derivatives, now weren't they?

I would say they missed the boat on that one - to the tune of an international crisis. I guess they are trying to show they are "paying attention" now.

I am just one person, but I bet there are plenty of others who haven't forgotten that the ratings agencies were not astute enuff to see the house of cards in the mortgage industry. THey kinda lost their "standing" with me after that fiasco.
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:08 PM
 
Location: Marion, IA
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I'm happy that our lying bastard president is finally being exposed for the fraud that he is.

I'm NOT happy to see me and my family's stock market holdings gain a net of 0 since December of last year.

There was absolutely no reason to raise the debt ceiling.
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:11 PM
 
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Tea Party Cheers Credit Downgrade

I think it's more cheering the forced recognition of reality and the abysmal lack of real leadership in Washington DC.

As in... 'Yeah, the beast is finally going to be subdued'

We'll get through it but obviously with no assist from Mother Jones' sucklets.
Yeah, you keep spinning it that way and wonder why America will continue to HATE the Tea Party.
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Old 08-07-2011, 09:13 PM
 
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There was absolutely no reason to raise the debt ceiling.
You mean other than to avoid a Default?
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