David Axelrod: ‘This Is…a Tea Party Downgrade’
- Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:28pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A top political adviser to President Barack Obama is blaming the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating on tea party Republicans, whom he says were unwilling to compromise on how to reduce the federal debt.
Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the decision by the Standard & Poor’s credit agency to downgrade the U.S. from AAA to AA+ for the first time was strongly influenced by weeks of standoff between Democrats and Republicans over the debt.
Axelrod calls the action, in his words, “a tea party downgrade” and says it’s clearly on the backs of lawmakers who were willing to see the country default to get their way.
Axelrod also criticized GOP presidential candidates for not speaking up in favor of compromise.
Nevertheless, he argued, the Tea Party was responsible for blocking a comprehensive deal that could have prevented such a downgrade.
“We can debate the strength of the analysis that they did, the history of S&P and so on,” Axelrod told CBS’ Bob Schieffer, of Standard & Poor’s, the credit rating agency that downgraded the U.S. market from AAA to AA+ on Friday. “They made an egregious analytical error here but theirs was largely a political analysis… They want to see the kind of solution that the president has been fighting for… that will be balanced, that will include revenues, that will deal with some of our long-term issues.”
“For months, the president was saying, let’s get together, let’s compromise,” Axelrod continued. “We thought we had such an arrangement with the Speaker of the House… then he went back to his caucus; he had to yield to the most strident voices in his party. They played brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States. This was the result in that.”
“The fact of the matter is that this is essentially a Tea Party downgrade,” he declared. “That clearly is on the backs of those who were willing to see the country default.”
Axelrod, currently a campaign strategist for President Obama, said the U.S. economic downgrade was “largely a political analysis” and that “there’s a broad consensus that [the U.S.] is still the safest place to invest your money.”
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Comments (458)
Qoheleth
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:43pmThis argument completely ignores their own complicity in blowing our financial status and blames the downgrade of the few people who are saying “We can’t keep on this way.” Ludicrous.
Report Post »It‘s like the wife who isn’t allowed to write checks in certain stores anymore blaming her husband who says “We’ll have to cut back on spending now.”
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:48pmOld story of the leftists and progressive socialists: Blame everyone else, and see what sticks, then go in for the kill while the house burns to the ground around you.
Report Post »http://artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm (cat folk gallery)
My Two Cents
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:56pmYes. Lets blame the destruction of our country on a political organization which did not even exist two years ago. McCain & Kerry were also blaming the Tea Party this morning. Those two clowns have a combined tenure of thirty in Washington. They need look no further than a mirror to lay blame.
Report Post »Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:59pmWow, between Axelrod and Lurch (John Kerry) I’m astounded at the utter stupidity of our politicians. For decades congress, largely controlled by DEOMCRATS, has been spending like rich girls at college with daddy’s credit card and the tea party comes along and warns these fools about it, and they get blamed for it.
Finally, finally, in the Tea Party, someone stands up to these free spending politicians buying their constituents votes with food stamp, welfare, medicare and pork barrel handouts and Kerry and Axelrod have the audacity to blame the who mess on the messengers. Standard and Poors should have downgraded the US years ago for our reckless orgy of spending and it comes now, 6 months after the tea partiers take office and they get the blame.
This just shows exactly why we deserve an F for our credit rating. Politicians like Lurch and Axelrod don’t have a clue why we got to where we are if they blame the tea party. These guys are just pathetic. Pathetic!
Report Post »en2deep
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:01pmThe memo has been sent out, look for media hacks to start parroting these exact words “it’s a TEA Party downgrade”. They are incapable of thinking for themselves so they must be programmed on what to say. Watch for it all week folks, it’s coming.
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:15pmThe propaganda machine is running and steady blaming the Tea Party. You see, truth does not matter. The Democrats will win this round. They are doing to hammer this one like there is no tomorrow. Republicans calling for Treasury Secretary is the counter propaganda (although I would like to see the Goldman Sachs lackey go). He will not leave and Obama will not ask him. Many in America wouldn’t even know who Tim Geithner is.
Report Post »They all new the downgrade was coming and they fell all over themselves trying to hang the blame around each others necks
HKS
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:18pmThey have really ran out of people to blame for the failure of their lame plans. Pitiful, just pitiful.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:21pmThe liberals only attack what they fear. We’re winning, folks. The more our fine, upstanding politicians (choking on my own words now) marginalize us, the stronger we get. Keep giving our patriotic grass-roots movement more press. Liberals just prove how ignorant they are. They should know better than anyone……even bad press is press. Fools and useless tools they are…..each and every one.
Report Post »101
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:26pmAxelrod “A top political adviser to President Barack Obama” he’s just doing what his boss told him to do…an all out leftwing campaign to shift blame instead of attacking the real issues THE ECONOMY
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:27pmI can’t begin to imagine living in a world where someone or something tells me what to say and I obey it without question. Does not one of them have any self respect whatsoever? Do they ever get their “talking points” memo of the day and say to themselves “hmmm….I don’t actually believe this nonsense they want me to say”? What makes these people such blind, obedient followers? Thank God I use the brain He endowed me with. I‘d rather think for myself to my own peril than to blindly follow a script for someone else’s cause. How sad these talking heads truly are. They would warrant our pity if they weren’t so incredibly destructive.
Report Post »ENOUGHISENOUGH
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:31pmI guess Kerry and Axelrod got the same memo, or co-wrote it together. Do they not realize how stupid they sound? Oh I keep forgetting, they’re talking to their base. Just goes to show what morons are in their camp.
Report Post »Fed up in Bama
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:32pmOh they can take their ‘tea party downgrade’
Report Post »and stick up their **@#!!!!
I’m tired of playing nice!
hauschild
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:37pmAxelrod: Yet another self-loather.
Report Post »HairOfTheDogSob
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:38pmS&P stated clearly in April..”4.7 Trillion..this is what they warned of…right or wrong they toldld obuma, reid in April
Report Post »HairOfTheDogSob
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:40pmTime to speak quite strongly to dem voters
Report Post »Barry TN
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:44pmSame old M O, blame game, whats new. Folks the dollar is going down if the Obama Dem’s keep getting there way. Hope we can make it til 2012 election. Come on Tea Party save this country.
Report Post »Wayne
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:51pmWell trash like you blame the “Tea Party” and the idiot in the White House has blamed President Bush for every thing, but his golf score sense he’s been in the White House. looks like you guys have never done anything. Of course most of you don’t have enought sense to put your pants on.
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:57pmYea right. Like the tea party got anything close to what we wanted. They’re trying to find a scapegoat for their crooked actions.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:36pmWell……Boo Hoo Hoo. Democrats demonize the Tea Party because they’re scared to death of us. Reid and his ilk do their posturing saying how insignificant the Tea Party is and that its membership number is declining; but the truth is the Tea Party is growing and the Donkeycrats just can’t stand what is changing in Washington. Just wait, more Tea Party politicians will be elected in 2012 and we will capture the Presidency and the Senate with Tea Party leadership!
By the way, all you like-minded individuals, please support the new Tea Party Review magazine. This is not an ad, nor am I on the staff of the magazine. It needs our support to stay to be a voice for us and an answer to those mags or rags the liberals put out.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:41pmI just contacted John McCain on his offical site and told him what I think of him. How dare they blame the Tea Party and excuse themselves from all responsibility. I believe our government has become infected with a mental illness virus that is spreading and fast. Only way to cure it is to vote them all out. Alas, that will not happen as everyone they touch now has the virus and will keep them in office.
Report Post »Spock
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:45pmMy question is …..why isn’t Oturd making any kind of response instead of sendinf out his attach dogs??
Report Post »mils
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:22pmcompromise to obama is doing things his way…
Report Post »An Arizonan
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:31pmGood hell, 2/3 of the government is run by the Democrats
1/10 of the Republican Party are Tea Partiers.
And the blame game begins. Axelrod and Kerry are today’s, MORONS!
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:33pmIf you jump on the Blog portion of The Blaze, you can download and print off a beautiful image that shows “DOWN GRADE” where the O is the Obama logo. I already printed it out, and I’m tacking it up in the rear window of my car.
http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2011/08/05/is-sp-is-a-terrorist-organization/
Report Post »last frontier
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:40pmWe will see who’s fault it is at the polls, I would have liked to be a fly on the wall at the meeting when they gave up blaming bush and started brainstorming a new Boogyman.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:18pm@ NH WINTER
Take a look, again, at what Senator McCain said. Senator McCain followed Kerry on “Meet the Press” this morning. Kerry “… called S&P‘s action on American credit a ’Tea Party downgrade.’ ”
Senator McCain “…rejected Kerry’s characterization of the downgrade and instead put it on the man who never had a plan …’the failure of the president of the United States to lead.’ ”
[reference: hotair.com]
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:26pmIt never ceases to amaze me as to how much HOG SNOT comes from the dem talking heads.
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:30pmany one notice how much Axelrod stutters now?
Report Post »ScreaminEagle
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:46pmSomeone tell these idiots the TEAParty don’t negotiate or make deals with commies.
Report Post »HD Veteran
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:08pm@My Two Cents —- Soooooooo on point!
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:51pmThey know their sheep.
Report Post »Shiroi Raion
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:04pmLiberals are definitely the sheep. Their voices are like an echo chamber. One says racist, they all say racist. One says terrorist, they all do. Even the words they use! Like the week they were all using the word “anathema.”
We are Obama of Borg!
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a61fPIgJfgs&feature=player_embedded
techengineer11
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:10pmdjeffcoat: Indeed they are but I pointed out that both were also filthy wicked Marxist Jews and the posts keep getting removed? People seem to be offended by the truth. Interesting. Jaycen you didn’t report my post did you? lol Did I offend the tribe?
Report Post »Blue Collar Conservative
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:46am@ TECHENGINEER11
Report Post »You aren‘t an American patriot if you don’t understand the God of our forefathers and the fact that even if one is a Christian, he has no standing to question who God chooses to love. I, an American, Christian patriot, stand with Israel and the faithful Jewish people, wherever they may be. Ones faith is never, in and of itself, a reason to condemn a person. You forget, or never realized, that God deals with each of us as individuals. So should we deal with one another in the same way.
G3L
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 1:53amWe want to thank you for all you kind comments. Because the more you attack the TEA PARTY, the stronger we get. Your administration screwed up the economy and the TEA PARTY is fixing the mess you and obama made. Can’t blame PRESIDENT BUSH, this is all obama and the dems. Even with all the media on your side America can see you for what you are worth, NOTHING.
Report Post »gotta light
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 3:47amDO NOT LISTEN TO DAVID AXELROD!!
HE’S NOTHING BUT A SIMPLE FOOL & POOR LIAR.
HE’S ALWAYS WRONG! AND HE WORKS FOR A EVEN BIGGER FOOL
Hey bud gotta light?
Report Post »AlbaL
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:59amAs usual the left’s response is to attack their opponents instead of taking responsibility for their actions — Kerry and Dean repeated the same mantra and shortly the “mainstream” press will pick it up. Saul Alinsky would be proud of them!!
Report Post »AlbaL
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:02amAs usual, the left’s response is to attack and blame their opponents. Axelrod started, Kerry and Dean followed and soon the “mainstream” media will follow their lead. Typical “Rules for Radicals” strategy — Saul Alinsky would be proud of them!
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 7:33amThis is a 4.1 billion dollars per day Obama downgrade. With the new budget that just got through our Debt is equal to our GDP ……THERE’S YOUR SIGN AXHOLE ROD
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 10:49amAnother IDIOT attached to the White House. Funny, I don’t know anyone who claims to be with the Tea Party, but most seem to be a believer in the Tea Party. Time we stick together against these people like IDIOT KERRY, Axelrod, and the others trying to bring down this Country, by degrading US.
Report Post »Fact is: These people are the ones taking our Country down, not those of us who care about it.
I support God's Israel!
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 4:18pmOops…..caught…time to backpedal and blame it on the Tea Party. I just joined the Tea Party movement and a whole lot of my friends have also, so I think that all they are doing is pushing good Americans to the Tea Party movement. It is very clear to me that the left wants you to believe that conservatives are the problem. But, it is really the progressive movement that is the problem. There are so few true conservatives left in Congress, we need to fire them all in the next election cycle.
LET’S SEND A VERY, VERY CLEAR MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON, LIKE WE DID LAST YEAR.
Report Post »NO DEMOCRATS. NO PROGRESSIVES. NO MODERATES.
Mil Mom
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 2:04amAnd if you say it often enough and loud enough, maybe you’ll convince yourselves! Kind of like whistling past the graveyard, only their whistling as they dig the graves for Americas financial system, the $, and America’s standing in the world! Think they’ve got it this time, but know what they’ve not counted on? America was a nation “Under God” at her founding, and many of God’s people are praying for her, (and us) today! GUESS WHAT LIBS, “GOD IS N O T DEAD, NOR DOTH HE SLEEP, THE WRONG SHALL FAIL, THE RIGHT PREVAIL, WITH PEACE ON EARTH, GOODWILL TO MEN !“ ”Dontcha hear them bells now ringin, dontcha hear them angels singin, their singin of “The Glory of The Lord!”
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 2:18am@Barry TN
Report Post »Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:44pm
Same old M O, blame game, whats new. Folks the dollar is going down if the Obama Dem’s keep getting there way. Hope we can make it til 2012 election. Come on Tea Party save this country
*****
Rush told one of his callers today, we’d just have to hope we make it til 2012, he didn’t see any way they could remove him from office, even if he keeps hurting his party! I wanted to shout at the radio, “RUSH, IT’S SIMPLE, T*O*N*Y R*E*D*Z*C*O (sp) all they have to do is have him indited by the IL AG, then they can say we can’t have a criminal in the white house, and since Joe has mental problems, move Hillary in! Don’t think it could happen, remember when a dem candidate was indited while Bill was Prez, and he ordered the state to let them choose another candidate just days before the election! No one thought it could happen, but big daddy bill argued it before the states courts, and it was permitted! Bill’s not in power now, but BO put 2 women on SCOTUS and theyd probably go along with Bill.
olddog
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:43pmLiberals, egg all over their face and they blame it on the Fox.
Report Post »Liberals are like children always passing the blame, it’s always someone elses fault.
Adults accept the blame for what they’ve done, that’s not the liberal way or the way of a child..
rose-ellen
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:05pmThe tea party IS to blame.That a minority can be empowered to irrationally stick to the position of not raising taxes on billionaires and corporations when the economy is in trouble shows that america is becoming more and more irrational.The hypercapitalist free market is king indoctrination that holds the country hostage via the tea party gulls bodes ill for the country.Your trillions spent on 10yr wars wit nothing to show for it and without a peep about it out of the people, also bodes poorly for confidence in america .
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:19pmIS Debbie Waspo Schultz telling Kerry and Axelrod to SAY these STUPID statements?
Tomorrow morning on CuppaJoeBS—Meeka will be saying THESE SAME WORDS
Democraps are like lemmings—they all get the same memo and start RANTING and RAVING
Question: If a Liberal-Progessive screams in the woods—-IS ANYONE LISTENING????
Report Post »patriotic grandmom
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 7:36pm@ Rose Ellen. I have spent sometime watching your posts. You are obviously so socialistic that you can only be on the taking end of the spectrum. It only shows in everything you post. Why don’t you spend more time trying to earn your own living instead of writing on this post and trying to push your wealth redistribution on those of us who work hard for our money and are not looking for handouts. I find it so ironic that Kerry keeps beating the “Make the wealthy pay more” as he plots to hide HIS WIFES money so they will not be part of the tax increase.
Report Post »Kirby-man
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 8:18pm@ Rose Ellen – You know, I am a tea partier and I was and am very against our military incursions, I was and am against using national security as a back door to steal our liberties via the Patriot Act. I was against George Bush‘s agenda just like I am against Obama’s. They are cut from the same cloth, progessive elites who think government has all the answers. It is ignorant, uninformed sheep like you who allow them to keep pulling the wool over America’s eyes. I know of no Tea Party backed candidate who wanted default to occur. There were plenty who did not want the debt ceiling raised and those two events are as different as night and day. Please get your facts right. By the way if you are so opposed to free market capitalism and a constitutional republic….hop a boat for Venezuela. I’ll help you pack.
Report Post »Blue Collar Conservative
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 2:59am@ ROSE-ELLEN
Report Post »How many tea party people are running California? I’ll answer it for you. NONE. Only Marxist progressives like you run that money pit. You should all just move there and enjoy your third word utopia without any of us. We promise we won’t interfere with your little democracy if you promise not to enter, or participate, or interfere with our republic in any way. Deal?
AvengerK
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 11:35amROSE-ELLEN….your grasp of what led to this downgrade- and indeed of basic economics- are laughable beyond words.
NO Rose-Ellen, the tea party is in no way at all responsible for this. In fact two years ago they were warning the country about the dangers of out of control spending and debt. It is more than 800 days and the democrats have yet to give us a budget. When Obama did give us a budget (I use the term in it’s loosest possible sense) he added 3.7 trillion dollars in new spending..sorry “investing” without any credible cuts. Obamacare itself adds trillions to the nation’s costs. It‘s the tea parties that have dragged Obama kicking and screaming into feigning he’s a deficit hawk. They’ve shifted the political discourse to the debt and spending- anathema to Obama. Americans should be thanking the tea parties for this.
To add insult to your injury Rose-Ellen, Fannie and Freddie are about to be downgraded also. You’ll recall that democrats like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd have stonewalled any attempts to reform those institutions? Let’s talk about revenue Rose-Ellen. You don’t raise taxes in a stalled economy. What you do is create an environment where employers want to hire and expand. More people working means more people paying taxes and more investment activity taking place. THIS isn’t theory Rose-Ellen, it’s FACT. THIS raises revenues Rose-Ellen. My God/G-d you’re pathetically stunted in your grasp of this situation Rose-Ellen.
Report Post »NWalters78
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 12:55pmRose-Ellen, are you truly this ignorant or deliberately evil? Yes on both counts, judging by your prior screeds and pathetic rants. How the hell do 60 Congressmen and 3 Senators BLOCK LEGISLATION by NOT VOTING. That crap passed anyway, you ignoramous. It passed thanks to the weaklings in the GOP and radicals in your party, the DNC. Sadly, there are millions as stupid as you are who will buy this hook, line, and sinker. Thankfully, your numbers are dwindling and people are waking up to your lies and your filth. I pity any kids you are raising. They’ll end up as twisted and angry as you.
Report Post »Da Kingfish
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:43pmOld rat face came out of his hole to say that, he knows it’s his boss that is the problem, and his butt buddy Kerry is trying as hard as they can to put the spin on it. They just don‘t and won’t ever have a clue, brain dead, ignorant sub-humans.
Report Post »SREGN
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:21pmThe mother of as*holes is always pregnant.
Report Post »HumbleMan
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:32pmNo hiding from the fact: this is the Obama downgrade. Even the Chinese communists criticize us for not cutting more and for being addicted to spending borrowed funds. Now who was it who wanted more cuts in spending? Who is irresponsible?
And these political elite fools call us dumb?
Report Post »GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:43pmShut the f’up Assholerod.
Report Post »handykeith29
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:50pmlmao.. funny but true
Report Post »drago
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:42pmSame script, different idiot…..
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:42pmPhrase of the day: tea party downgrade
Must poll well . . . they truly think we’re IDIOTS!
Report Post »ENOUGHISENOUGH
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:31pmThey are talking to their idiots. They know we aren’t falling for it.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:41pmNo “Gravitas”
Remember a couple of years ago when the “DEMOCRATS, therefore the Main Stream Media’s” WORD of the Day was Gravitas, Now that’s a word. And “Word” was Nancy’s word. Nice try Davie, but no “Gravitas” in the TEA Party theory.
Report Post »John 1776
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:48pmThis appears to now be the liberal talking point line, and will be parroted by them all….
Never mind that it was the tea party that was screaming for more cuts and that the downgrade was caused because there were not enough cuts.
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:41pmWhile most people have their morning BM in the usual way, the lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists get their dumbest members to have theirs verbally through a stupid comment to the media.
BTW: there was no coordination between axelrod and kerry in making the identical idiotic statement about the Tea Party. The mental illness known as d-cRAT socialism affects them all equally.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:41pm@ Teaparty patriot- Don’t be so sure. Keep in mind the “journalist” scandal , which, once exposed, saw dozens of well known “respected ” media types admitting to coordinating efforts to demonize conservatives. This latest mantra will surly be on the salivating lips of every one of the Mullah Obamas’ sock puppets in the MSM. Watch for it tomorrow (Mon.) morning.
Report Post »gator5
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:17pmDon’t believe me but it appears that Al Sharpton is about to get his own show on MSNBC. That should be interesting for fair and balanced. Just google it if you have doubts.
Report Post »Bro Geo Too
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:41pmDemocrats & Hitler–what do they have in common? Democrats now and Hitler before them believed that if a lie is repeated often enough the lie will soon pass as the truth.
Obama, Biden, Reid, Pelosi, Kerry, Alexrod, Hitler, Goebbels, and their ilk can lie all they want, this American is not buying their BS. And the good news? Many of you aren’t buying it either.
Report Post »raspberrytea
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:37pmyelp… look at how many lies that were told about Sarah
Report Post »Palin and Glenn Beck, look at how many believe
those lies. Seems to work for a while. but the truth
will always come to light….. sooner or later.
Just hope it’s sooner. Sarah Plain, please run!!
dbabcook
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 9:28pmThat’s the problem whenever you deal with the Government Officials, they all lie and tell the vast majority of people what they think they want to hear then once they have weaseled their way in they then change things around in a complete 360. I do agree with the statement “Obama now, Hitler then”. Obama wants the US to be under his control as well as the control of the other countries that he is helping…..countries that have tried to take over and ruin our country in years past and been unsuccessful as we had Presidents at the time that were for the American people rather than against them. Obama is that president who being of the Islamic heritage is against the US and will stop at nothing to destroy us. If Obama was a TRUE American he would be dong anything and everything he could to protect and repair our country bringing it back to harmony rather than destroying it.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on August 8, 2011 at 6:22amRaspberry It’s Palin not plain
Report Post »Banter
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:41pmThis is a coordinated attack on the Tea Party. They will all say the same thing, including the rinos, so expect the next number of stories that come out to sound like a recorded track. This will get uglier as election season heats up.
Keep on them Tea Party, we are going to win!
Report Post »BillyPenn
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:39pmNothing new here. Typical commie response. Right out of Alinsky’s book. Attack & deflect, repeatedly.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:43pm^~~~~^~~~~^
Ohhh here we go another organized narrative.. TEA party get ready you are being set up! The ‘blame Bush’ tactic is so old and out of date the left has probably decided to make this move and begin the finger pointing at you. DO NOT get formally organized, maintain your grassroots independent status.
Now there has to be some of you out there that have “infiltrated” the left and receive emails about the next tactic they will be utilizing, if not I hope I have inspired a few of you to do so! That said if anyone has pls start sharing what you receive from those radical groups as fr as there plans of attack, new narratives etc. Expose their operations from the inside. The tactics to engage them on this new battlefield of information exist. Question is what are you prepared to do? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jsKLXqA0g
Stop playing their game and start playing your game http://SavingtheRepublic.com
Report Post »djhrr
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:46pmIt offends me for the administration to blame this on the tea party. Time to make it illegal ** in Jesus name Amen**
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:46pmI can’t wait to see the backlash at the polls next year against these people. Don’t they realize that the Tea Party are the voters rebelling against them?
Report Post »olddog
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:39pmIf it’s your fault blame it on someone else enough times and maybe people will believe it..
Report Post »Well Certainly it’s the liberal way…We’ve all read it in Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky..
Wouldn’t it be a novel idea for liberals to actually admit their blame just once, like an adult???
cloudsofwar
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:39pmGood Grief, talk about talking points. how do they get them so fast. BO soon to blame the tea party. whatever happens it’s the tea parties fault. tea party is made up of america loving patriots. Patriots vs Progressives, lets see how this works itself out. i think tea will win out.
Report Post »EQUALIZER
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:38pmPathetic Progressive mantra, reverse the truth and the media will support it until the uninformed masses believe it. Straight out of the Marxist playbook!!
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:38pmDavid Axelrod and John Kerry got the same memo….. Liberals are pathetic!!!!!!!
Can’t wait until 2012, hope the real Democrats wake up this time….
Report Post »okiemomo
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 10:32pmSo true. Catch phrase of the week. Tea-party downgrade.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:37pmFilthy pig…………You are talking about the American tax payer who wants to save this country. You and Obama have a agenda to take America down……You have seen nothing yet with the Tea Party, this is Not the 1930′s where you and your Marxist buddies are going to take over…you read too many communist fairy tales…..and no nothing about who America is and why we are the greatest nation on earth in less than 300 years.
Report Post »Webcat
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:36pm“Tea Party Downgrade”……..first Kerry, now Axelrod. Must be the liberal talking point of the week.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:41pmButt buddies…
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:47pmYep.never accept any responsibility. This 2012,lets retire em all. Good grief. The electerate is fed up. If Washington,D C leaned nothing from the last, off year election, wait till 2012!! it is coming, and its going to change Washington, big time.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:36pmExpect to hear this term over and over. Sadly, that’s not the problem. The problem is the @51% of the electorate that believes it.
Report Post »jenk99
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:40pmThat is so true. We aren’t just fighting these politicians, we are fighting the ignorant masses who believe them.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 4:37pmFunny that the same 51% who believe this bull, matches the 51% that pay no income taxes.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:16pmThey wake up mid- day in their government subsidized home, from their drug/alcohol induced stupor,and shuffle down to the mailbox to retrieve their welfare check. After which they make their way to the store to purchase their groceries with their food stamps. Then they make a visit to the clinic, government provided madicaid card in hand. Evening is near so they make a call to their dealer on their government provided cell phone. They make the connection, it’s getting a little chilly, so they return home and crank up the government provided heat to warm their tired bodies. Such is the life of the large percentage of the Mullahs’ base. He takes your money to buy the votes of the parasites . Welcome to Obamaville!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 6:57pmMODEL82A1,
You’re right!
Every Dem. I saw on FOX today participating in a “Fair and Balanced” debate was parroting the same message.
Those who have posted about it being straight from Saul Alinsky’s book “Rules for Radicals” are also right. It IS!
Even the class warfare bu@#*t that President Dunham esposes is from egotistical old Saul’s book.
Saul divided the citizens of this country into 3 groups. The Haves(rich),Have-a-little want more(middle class),Have Nots(poor).
Evil old Saul said,”The Haves want to keep; theHave-Nots want to get. Thermopolitically speaking they are a mass of cold ashes of resignation,but inside there are glowing embers of HOPE which can be fanned by the building of means of obtaining power.Once the fever begins the flame will follow. they have nowhere to go but up.’ Change!
Obama,Kerry,Axelrod,Hillary,ALL of them are Political RELATIVISTS. They have no truth. Their TRUTH changes to fit their needs.
And like Goebbels, they truly believe that “A lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.”
Get the book. “Rules for Radicals” A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky.
Report Post »Evil old Saul died in 1972. His cult of followers live on.
American Soldier (Separated)
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:36pmWait, so it‘s the Tea Party’s fault for the downgrade even though the downgrade came about with no real debt reduction that the Tea Party people wanted. In fact, no real reduction in spending happened.
Do you think that the US got downgraded because we’re up to our eye balls in debt with no realistic solution anywhere in the foreseeable future?
We weren’t downgraded because we ended up saving $2 trillion over 10 years, we’re downgraded because that was obviously NOT ENOUGH!
Report Post »cosette
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 5:17pmBingo!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Jimm57
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:35pmWhat a bunch of Dirt bags! Always blaming someone else, never accepting any responsibility
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:35pmBend over David, I’ve got your axle rod right here…
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:35pmAxelrod…you wish…
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:34pmHAHAHAHA Looks like they have their new TALKING POINTS down pat! Hey, they have to try and blame SOMEONE ELSE so might as well be the NEW GUY in town, right? Too bad it didn’t work when they tried this before with the RACISTS thing and the ASTRO TURF and the NAZI THING.. what else have they tried? JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. BOY, they really must be afraid and threatend by all those racist old white people! :)
Report Post »Juan Gault
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:50pmNot yet but wait till evening of Nov 2012,they will then,for sure.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:32pmSeems I heard the same “quote” from Kerry!! Got to love those DEM talking points!!! Do not engage brain, just open mouth!!
Report Post »Yeah, the tea party sure won………didn’t cut enough to avoid the S&P downgrade!! Big Win…..for Democrats who think there is NO problem……that’s why they need someone to blame!!
BuckOfama
Posted on August 7, 2011 at 3:32pmAnother TOOL heard from….
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