Page program pulled…

Alas,  impressionable youngsters like Monica Lewinsky will no longer have a presidential knee pad career path to internship,  though I’m astonished that Minority Leader Pelosi  agreed with  Speaker Boehner that the congressional page program should be killed.

Hey,  you save $5 million here and there,  and pretty soon it might add up to real money.

Downgrade blame…

I didn’t listen to His Oneness on Monday,  but I’m unsurprised that Brian Bolduc did and  found him,  as ever,  blaming others for his own heavy hand of failure,  while simultaneously claiming it on an S&P  math error.   Not even the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank,  a reliable cheerleader for Obama,  found the  speech wanting.

The Democrats’ talking point this weekend was to call this a  Tea Party downgrade.    Considering that recent  Gallup polls  show that the  percentage of Americans who expressly state that they are supporters of the Tea Party movement is currently about as large at 22% of the population as the 21% who say they are liberal,  Ed Morrissey is likely correct that there  will be blowback  on the Dems.   Michael Walsh  views the attack  on the Tea Party as testing for Obama’s re-election campaign,  so it’s significant,  even if John Hinderaker says  they can’t  sell it.    Rick Santelli defends the Tea  Party here.

By the way,  after His Oneness gave his I’m-not-responsible-speech, the stock market went from 400 to  600 points down.  Perhaps it knew  more downgrades  were coming?

Was George  Soros the man  who bet that downgrades were coming?