Dems agree: The downgrade is meaningless… and it’s the Tea Party’s fault!
The Democrats had two main messages this weekend: The S&P downgrade is no big deal, and it’s the Tea Party’s fault we were downgraded. TheDC’s Neil Munro reports on the first point: “Democratic National Committee communications director Brad Woodhouse created a new Twitter hashtag Friday night to criticize Standard & Poor’s, as Democrats railed against the credit rating powerhouse for its decision to downgrade the U.S. government’s fiscal status. Woodhouse tweeted out his support for the hashtag #DowngradeSandP to his 3,841 followers, including many reporters, bloggers, Democratic activists and TV personalities. ‘Who rates S&P?’ he tweeted. ‘A $2 trillion error and their abysmal failure during the financial crisis – someone should downgrade them.’” (In other words: “I know you are, but what am I?”) So their message was that the downgrade is just a misunderstanding, a big mistake. But then, less than 24 hours later, they were likening the downgrade to an earthquake or a plague. And, of course, blaming everyone but themselves. By Sunday, David Axelrod and John Kerry — two of the most trustworthy faces in the Democratic Party — completed the 180 by calling it the]“Tea Party downgrade." So stay calm, everybody. Things aren’t as bad as they look, and besides, it’s the teabaggers’ fault that things are so bad.
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