MoveOn is distributing this graphic, hoping people will share it on Facebook and the like.
It’s a bit of an oversimplification to try to blame right wing nutjobs for the entire decline in the Dow this week. But it’s not much of a stretch to blame them outright for the S&P downgrade. They’ll try to claim it’s due to too much spending, but the actual text of the S&P decision focuses much more on the country’s unwillingness to raise revenue.
Translation: Congress is controlled by a cadre of delusional fucks who think we can have three wars at once without raising taxes on the millionaire oligarchs who paid for their election campaigns. That part is spot on. So oversimplification or not, I’m on board: “Heckuva job.”
