UncleBuck
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your uncited, unattributed copy and paste is clearly referring to the government shutdown, not the debt limit debate in which the intransigent GOP earned us a credit downgrade because of their planned parenthood boner.It's right here in black and white.
Congress continues to pass individual spending bills to restore funding for government services like military and veterans assistance, FEMA, nutrition assistance, life-saving cancer trials, keeping our parks and museums open and pay for our troops.
All received bipartisan support in the House, but only the military pay bill has been adopted by the Senate and signed into law by the President.
President Obama continues his refusal to compromise or negotiate with Speaker Boehner on the debt-limit. Mr. Obama's position is untenable and defies history. Presidents from both political parties dating back to the Eisenhower administration have negotiated these issues with Congress.
here:
http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/04/sp_to_usa_get_serious.html
But this is the same Congress that has spent most of the past few weeks bickering about Planned Parenthood, trying to defund the health care law, and not raising the debt ceiling. Again, S&P is saying that the problem is one of political will, rather than budgetary reality—and it is right about that.