Democrats: STIMULUS!
Tea Party: Stop spending so much money!
Democrats: STFU, we know what we’re doing! OBAMACARE!
Tea Party: Okay, we’ll vote you out.
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Democrats: ZOMG! We didn’t do a budget for like two years, and now we’re going to max out the credit card if we don’t up the limit, Granny’s gonna die!
Tea Party: Or you could, you know, live within your means. We’d actually prefer it if you’d decrease spending.
Republicans: Yeah! Let’s do that! Oh, but we need to up the credit limit anyway.
Tea Party: WTF? Why?
Republicans: Because the Senate won’t let us.
Tea Party: But you control the purse strings! It’s totally within your power to cut spending and not raise the debt limit!
Republicans: STFU NOOB!
Democrats: You guys are totally terrorists for wanting to cut spending. Also, if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, our credit rating will be downgraded. And Granny will die.
S&P: Actually, you’ll need to cut spending, too, in order to avoid a downgrade.
Moodys: What they said.
Dagong: Too late, Yankee Dog!
Democrats, Republicans, and Obama: Behold! We have a deal! And there are massive cuts.
Democrats: Republicans are evil, and these cuts are going to kill Granny.
Republicans: These cuts are awesome. We totally won!
Tea Party: Umm…these cuts don’t amount to much more than a rounding errror. $100b a year? And most of the cuts don’t come until like 8 years from now? If those were binding, wouldn’t the current budget be the one Republicans came up with in 2003?
S&P: Yeah, remember how we said you had to be serious about budget cuts? DOWNGRADE
Democrats: This is the Tea Party’s fault!
Tea Party: WHAT!? HOW!? We didn’t get anything we wanted! [facepalm]
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Best summary ever!
I’m pretty sure that the Democrats talk like internet trolls at all their parties, just like that.
Great summary! Today’s Quote of the Day!
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Wow. There really is not much point in me commenting on the situation any more, is there?
Part of me remains flat-out astonished that anyone would blame this downgrade on the Tea Party, especially when S&P has made it abundantly clear why they did what they did. But then I remember who we are talking about, and suddenly their irrational and counter-to-reality behavior makes a lot more sense…
Well, it’s not like months ago S&P put out a list saying “Do x, y, and z, and you won’t get downgraded.”
Oh. Wait. They did.
But our enlightened leaders knew better, and so didn’t do any of that.
Lo and behold, we’ve been downgraded.
This is my shocked face.
[...] the door to further government spending. For those who didn’t follow the political drama wizardpc over at Walls of the City has written up a perfect and concise summary of the politically nonsense that unfolded during the [...]