“It’s funny yet sad to see how the same folks who were beating the nation over the head with the S&P threat of downgrading the US are now questioning it’s validity. Keep switching up those narratives. Nobody notices–I promise.”
This is what I wrote the other day on Facebook as news hit the web that the S&P decided to downgrade the US, despite the latest bill from congress to grant president Obama’s wishes to raise the debt limit.
As I just mentioned in my initial comment, the “support Obama, regardless” taskforce spent the weeks prior bashing the Republican-led congress for not complying with Obama desire to raise the debt limit while limiting cuts in our spending (The S&P actually wanted deeper cuts than what congress requested in the bill). The usual scare tactics were deployed: The old, the poor, the minority will all be adversely affected by any cuts to our spending. After much political theater, Obama gets the debt limit raised and a very weak commitment from congress to cut spending over a decade.
The S&P still downgrades the US after warning after warning by the Obama administration that going past August 2nd would endanger our credit stance.
So the narrative this week will once again shift all the blame on those wascally Tea Party people, while Obama was just nothing more than the innocent bystander who just showed up.
I don’t like this rational one bit because the more his base portrays him as the innocent bystander, the more the underscore the claims made by his opponents during his campaign that he lacked the qualifications and experience to be president. This cheapens the status of being “the first Black president”.
