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We can rest assured that it will all be OK<\/a>.\u00a0 Warren Buffett has said we\u2019re a AAAA rated nation in his non-partisan and entirely objective opinion.\u00a0 Besides, we are now being told that S&P;\u2019s royally sucks anyway, is incompetent and nobody really cares what it thinks (as opposed to about a week or so ago when we were told we had to do anything to keep S&P; from downgrading our credit rating).\u00a0 Plus, President Obama has assured us that pundits are correct, and we are still a AAA country, since S&P; and any downgrades don\u2019t mean anything.\u00a0 And let\u2019s not forget, Barney Frank said that S&P; was wrong anyway, since even had we missed the\u00a0deadline last week, it shouldn\u2019t have mattered since we had plenty of money to pay our bills for some days afterwards.\u00a0 So you see, all those weeks we heard how we had to come up with a deal or else the end of the universe would happen because S&P; was threatening to drop our AAA rating, turns out to have been for nothing.\u00a0 Of course it does leave us with the troubling, nagging question that if all of those saying we were going to die if our rating was slashed and the deadline was missed were actually wrong by their own admission, then doesn\u2019t that mean they could be wrong this time?\u00a0 Nah.\u00a0 I wouldn\u2019t worry about it.\u00a0 No matter what happens, we can take comfort in knowing that it was all the Tea Party\u2019s fault anyway. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"