How exactly is the Tea Party responsible if S&P warned that if 4tril. wasn't cut they would downgrade us?

The downgrade had nothing to do with the existence of the the Tea Party. If the President had heeded the warning of S&P when they called for at least $4 trillion in cuts and getting control of the debt, none of this would have ever happened. We were already at 100% of debt to GDP when S&P watched the debt ceiling get raised by $2.4 trillion.

The head of S&P said this morning that the spending path the administration is on is unsustainable, and that is where the problem lies.

False Premise: The Tea Party did NOT force the downgrade. That was caused by the spending that put the ability of govt to pay the interest in question. The Tea Party tried to slow down the spending.

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