White House adviser is an idiot.

OK, this blog has been ignored long enough. This whole budget, debt ceiling, credit rating crap is showing the feds for what they are.  This country was founded to cut government and it's daily impact on our lives. Somehow though they have managed to turn this into an elected monarchy and feel they have the right to tell us what to do and how much to pay for it.

In an AP story today;

The adviser to President Barack Obama, 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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser 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.
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.

Are you freakin' kidding me? The out of control spending with screams of tax more! tax more! has nothing to do with it? Those that actually want to solve the problem by just saying enough is enough are? Senator Obama was the one that said to raise the debt ceiling is financially irresponsible yet now if it doesn't get raised and President Obama doesn't get a trillion dollar blank check then he's not going to pay social security?

I seriously thing it's in the genetic makeup of politicians to make promises they're incapable of keeping and to not accept responsibility for anything negative, and take credit for everything positive even if they were on the other side of teh planet when it happened.