Actually, S&P put the onus on the Republican'ts (that's Republican + "T") and did the down-rating based on the political instability rather than the debt as such.

I suspect having most of a political party taking oaths to private parties and not to the Constitution can't have a good ending, no matter what. To whom to these people belong -- Grover Norquist or Uncle Sam? I find it pretty scary that their primary oath seems to be to a single person, not to our country.

Songbob