Caution: Spin Doctors at Work

Obama's spin doctors are working overtime. This from the Daily Caller:
"The left-wing activist group MoveOn.org picked up the new liberal slogan bashing conservatives for Standard & Poor’s U.S. credit rating downgrade: “Tea Party downgrade.” President Obama’s chief campaign strategist David Axelrod and Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry both used the phrase on Sunday talk shows." And then Howard Dean parroted the same phrase, too. What a crock. Does anybody really listen to these blowhards anymore?

Tea Party downgrade, hah! If that's true, then I'm the long lost twin sister of Lady Gaga. If anybody believes that the Tea Party is to blame, they'd better get their head examined - they might be a living brain donor. Ever since the first 'stimulus' in 2009, Tea Party folks have been screaming at the top of their lungs: "Stop the Spending!"

Standard & Poor's is now threatening a second downgrade unless we cut spending. Over at American Thinker, there's an interesting article about the credit rating downgrade. Here are a couple of take-away quotes: "It is a good thing that S & P did what they did because it takes the debt fight out of the political realm and makes it purely financial." And: "Canada lost their AAA rating in 1994 but they cut spending and got it back in 1997. It will probably take us longer. What this mandates now is action. The time for talk is over." (Emphasis mine.)

All I can say is the Tea Party is right and Obama & company are wrong. Cutting spending is the answer, and the sooner the better.