Sooo our rating is NOT bad because we owe too much and cannot pay our bills without incurring yet more debt, but because of the tea party?
Our govt is lucky I am not on the rating board, because frankly I doubt there is any way in hell we ever repay our debts and stay solvent.
I am firmly on the side of Soviet style bankruptcy when it comes to the US and most EU countries.
We have too many entitlements and history has demonstrated over and over socialism does not work and like it or not we are a socialist nation. We have become the nation of ask not what you can do for your country but what your country can do for you!