Seems the Democratic talking point of the weekend is “Tea Party Downgrade,” with John Kerry, David Axelrod and Howard Dean all using the expression to blame the downgrade in the nation’s credit rating. Yahoo! even included Democrats’ talking point in its news headline yesterday:
John McCain, Ed Morrissey notes, begged to differ:
We could have reached an agreement a lot earlier, but the members of the House of Representatives had a mandate last November, and it was jobs and the economy and it was spending. And for them to then agree to tax increases and spending increases was obviously a repudiation of the mandate they felt they had from last November
Emphasis added. “McCain,” Morrissey added “gets this one right”:
Voters sent a clear message in last year’s midterms, and it wasn’t “spend more and increase taxes.” Democrats refused to listen in 2009 when voters revolted over the addition of another massive entitlement program; voters spent all of 2010 revolting over Obamanomics; and they punished Democrats in November for not listening to them. Democrats still aren’t listening, and the way they are reacting now, 2012 may make 2010 look like a good year for the Democratic Party.
Well, that all depends on the success of the Democrats’ slash and burn strategy. At least, this talking points helps Republicans prepare for 2012 as the Democrats have given us yet another foretaste of Obama’s 2012 campaign theme: attack Republicans! Blame the Tea Party!
This shows lefties’ contempt for people’s intelligence.
They can try their framing and marketing campaigns all they want, but people know: it’s Obama’s downgrade. No other President has one.
Obama has betrayed the American people. He was elected on a promise of a “net spending cut” (his words, on TV in October 2008 in a debate that many people watched). Instead, he jacked up spending, gave us trillions in new debt and made the entitlement situation worse. And that is why U.S. debt deserves its downgrade.
All the TEA Party did was point out reality. Lefties are trying an old trick – blame the messenger – and they are trying it with the crudeness of a child. Americans know now that Democrats won’t defend them from massive tax hikes; the TEA Party will.
Blame the TEA Party for what? The deficits are no caused by shrinking revenue. If the government were holding in place, but the deficits were increasing because the revenue streams were collapsing, that would be a different story.
But the taxocrats have piled on with the Stimulus to Nowhere, TARP, Obamacare and unfunded entitlement obesity and can not see how more taxation is not the clear and sole solution.
The TEA Party has spoken loudly: “We The People HAVE HAD ENOUGH.” So the taxocrats replied: “We the taxers DON’T HAVE IT ALL YET.”
This is not an intellectual concept. Demagoguery is always about raw, dirty political muscle. Soon the taxocrats will uncage the rioters who will pillage and burn over insufficient wealth transfer.
Obama cannot run away from the Obama Downgrade; he can’t, although he’s trying his best to deflect blame as usual. Obama is the first POTUS to have the USA downgraded. It’s unprecedented. Obama playing coward is more the default than exception. Bullies are like that.
David Axelrod even turned into mush against Bob Schieffer, Wrinkly Old Sock, when Schieffer was merciless to Axelrod about the downgrade. That’s how bad it is. The MSM is turning on Obama now.
Obama started digging this hole on inauguration day. He never understood the relationship between wealth creation at all income levels and increases in tax receipts. He only saw increasing tax rates as a revenue stream, (capital gains were a large part of 1990’s revenues)
Economic growth under Obama has been nothing more than a counter wave from the negative GDP of late 2008. Little if any real growth has transpired in this country on his watch. As Christime Romer said last week were “Pretty darn fucked”, and she was on board with this President at the beginning.
The goal for November 2012 is to put the liberal wings of the Republican and Democrat Party into permanent minority status. Finally, the electorate understands the behavior of the sociopathic leftists.
Democrats: If only we’d had a BIGGER debt, we’d not have been downgraded.
Sane people: Whuh?
Something I have not heard yet this morning… but expect to sometime soon… S&P IS RACIST!!!1!
Let’s all use the phrase “The Obama downgrade” as much as possible.
Livewire,
Obama inherited the downgrade from Booooosh and stalled it off by not having yearly budgets, adding Obamacare and stonewalling. Then the TEA Party took the whole government apparatus hostage and forced Obama to reinstate the Boooooosh tax cuts for the indolent, hedonistic, corpulent rich which caused Standard and Poors to put the downgrade into action.
Greenspan is riding to the rescue with a plan to emulate Zimbabwe. Certainly, if we can substantially reduce the use of fossil fuels, we will finally have a balanced budget, energy independence and a goat in every closet. But first we must free our inner demons and pledge to coexist in a world where every tandem bicycle has room for one more rider. Fiber. Did I mention fiber?
Debbie Wasserman-Shill has gotten in on this as well, tweeting yesterday that “truer words were never spoken” than John Kerry calling the credit downgrade the “Teaparty Downgrade.” I tweeted her back with a reminder that on June 15th she stated that the “Democrats own the economy” and that her attempt to shift the blame for the downgrade to the Teaparty just proved what a worthless, lying shill she is.
Bush presidency: U.S. is AAA.
Obama presidency: U.S. downgraded.
I tells ya, “He got us downgraded” will become the defining metaphor for Obama’s presidency. Not even Jimmeh Carter could get us downgraded. And it rolls off the tongue. It’s a flexible metaphor, suited to many aspects of Obama policy.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn’t the Tea Party-backed “Cut, Cap, and Balance” plan the only plan submitted during the negotiations that would have avoided the downgrade? And didn’t Obama and Reid kill that plan?
#7 – “Let’s all use the phrase “The Obama downgrade” as much as possible.”
Better than that, ILC – today in the faculty lounge, I used the term “Obama depression” and it made one libtard professor have a coughing spell.
She mumbled, “For now.”
My response: “Yes, until next November.”
Regards,
Peter H.