Absolute garbage, and a malicious lie. Barack Obama had the HONESTY to put GW Bush’s debt on the books. You remember him, the fratboy president? Do you think the Iraq War and Afghanistan War didn’t cost anything?

” Let’s be clear: the tea party had nothing to do with the downgrade. ”

Idiocy. Standards And Poor, those bolshies, said so themselves. About their own downgrade.

Holding the good faith and credit of the USA HOSTAGE, and going on air claiming that a down grade wouldn’t be bad, or would even be good, is what prompted the downgrade.