Debt Anger Imperils GOP, Democrats Alike

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Because of posting rules I've only included as much of the article as allowed. I highly recommend reading the whole thing.

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As dark as the political picture is for President Barack Obama right now, Republicans aren't exactly basking in a healthy glow either, suggesting that some wild and unpredictable political forces have been unleashed across the land.

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Republicans can be no more confident than Democrats that they know the precise consequences, and in some respects their vulnerability on this particular front may be greater.

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So, whom do Americans blame? In a nutshell, everybody in Washington. President Obama's approval rating in the new poll drops to 44% the lowest of his term, and the approval rating of Congress drops to 13%, near a historic low. A whopping 82% disapprove of the way Congress is doing its job.

Here's the particular concern for Republicans, who now control half of that unpopular Congress: When Americans are asked whom they blame for the decision by Standard & Poor's in the wake of the debt deal to lower the federal government's credit rating, twice as many blame Republicans in Congress as blame either President Obama or Democrats in Congress. The debt downgrade was the most immediate real-world impact of the debt deal, and that played badly for the GOP.

http://online.wsj.com/article/capital_journal.html?mod=WSJ_topnav_na_us

[TwilightGardener]

1. They don't care what the public thinks of them. They have to make people angry at Obama, that's

their only job.

[nineteen50]

2. If the American people ever wake up both parties will feel the wrath.

Both the REPUBLICAN party and the other republican party.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. The whole fiasco over the debt ceiling didn't.have.to.happen

We don't allow psychopaths to profit from the crimes nor should we allow the Republicans to benefit electorally next year because of what they did. If we're going down, if President Obama is going down, they need to be brought down hard as well! This kind of economic chaos is one of the results of the Republicans' fervently expressed desire to see President Obama "fail" and we are now starting to see where such a mentality gets us- ALL OF US. Words can't express the loathing I feel for every single Republican pol whom supported the gambit to refuse to raise the debt ceiling, encouraged it, enabled it, and/or simply didn't stand up to the loonies and try to stop it!
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