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Zeke Miller Business Insider 8/8/2011 Standard & Poor’s has begun to downgrade states and municipalities Monday morning after stripping the federal government of its ‘AAA’ rating. While not unexpected, the move has far-reaching implications for thousands of local governments already burdened by steep deficits. Among those affected so far: Tacoma, WA. Atlanta Downtown Development Authority, […] August 8th, 2011 | Tags: Atlanta Downtown Development Authority, credit rating, downgrade, Miami, spending, Standard & Poor (S&P), Tacoma, The Architect of the Capitol, The Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina | Category: Banking and finance, Department of Transportation, Fannie Mae, Florida, Freddie Mac, Georgia, North Carolina, Politics, Washington | Comments are closed
Rick Santelli Gives MSNBC Guest Ezra Klein a Lesson in Economics on Live TV Buck Sexton The Blaze 8/5/2011 Rick Santelli, the man who’s 2009 firebrand speech on government spending is considered a seminal moment in the Tea Party’s founding, gave MSNBC analyst and Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein a stern lesson in free markets […] August 8th, 2011 | Tags: 'social justice', American exceptionalism, bailouts, blame, capitalism, credit rating, debt ceiling, Ezra Klein, free markets, leadership, Rick Santelli, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: "Stimulus" program, Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Federal spending, Politics, Taxes, Tea Parties, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Erick Erickson RedState 8/8/2011 You know, Barack Obama not only inherited a receding economy from George W. Bush, but he inherited a triple A credit rating too. Maybe we should call him Lemony Snicket, given the series of unfortunate events that have taken place on his watch. There was the BP Oil spill and a […] August 8th, 2011 | Tags: "President Downgrade", blame, debt-to-GDP ratio, downgrade, George W. Bush, leadership, Sen. John Kerry, Sen. John McCain, Standard & Poor (S&P) | Category: Barack Obama, Cloward-Piven Strategy, Congress, Economy, Elections, Entitlements, Federal spending, fundraising, Saul Alinsky, Taxes, Tea Parties | Comments are closed
Mike Riggs Reason Magazine 8/6/2011 A press release sent this morning by Sen. Rand Paul’s office: Sen. Rand Paul today issued a statement calling for the resignation of U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner from his cabinet post, effective immediately, for his gross mismanagement of federal economic policy and for his role in the first-ever downgrade […] August 7th, 2011 | Tags: bailouts, downgrade, national debt, Sen. Rand Paul, Standard & Poor (S&P), Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: "Stimulus" program, Barack Obama, Economy, Federal spending, Taxes, Treasury Department | Comments are closed
Axelrod: ‘This is essentially a tea party downgrade’ Jeff Poor The Daily Caller 8/7/2011 It appears the new Democratic talking point on Friday’s S&P downgrade of the U.S. credit rating is to blame on the tea party, by referring to it as a “tea party downgrade.” That phrase began to surface Sunday on morning talk […] August 7th, 2011 | Tags: Bob Schieffer, Christine Romer, Cokie Roberts, David Axelrod, Democrats, downgrade, Howard Dean, MoveOn.org, Rasmussen Reports, Rep. Jeff Landry, Sen. John Kerry, Standard & Poor (S&P) | Category: Barack Obama, Economy, George Soros, Polls, Progressives, Saul Alinsky, Taxes, Tea Parties, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Sheila Jackson Lee at Radical Islam Hearing: Let’s ‘Have a Hearing on Right-Wing Extremists’ Penny Starr CNSNews 7/27/2011 At a hearing of the House Committee on Homeland Security today about the radicalization of young Somali American Muslims by the al-Shabaab terrorist group, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) said the committee should hold a hearing on […] July 28th, 2011 | Tags: al Qaeda, Al Shabaab, ideologues, Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Rep. Peter King, Sheila Jackson Lee, Somalia, Standard & Poor (S&P) | Category: Banking and finance, Canada, Congress, Department of Justice, Minnesota, Racism, terrorism | Comments are closed
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