Well.... certainly S&P mentioned that the GOP plan was going to lower the credit score definitely and they pressed, they ended up passing a compromise which was still not good enough for the S&P, this is going to really complicate things with the large debt.

The Dems may look better on this one, Obama may look a bit bad and the GOP are going to look like monsters, if people realize what this all means, to the average person its all gibberish, so they lowered the score from AAA to AA+

I don't know about the DA, they are going to be more hard pressed to deny anything that is predicted to benefit the economy, but than again, politics is very illogical and with the Tea party and the Koch Brothers controlling the calls with their massive financial influence and people are not willing to go out to the street and protest the injustice that is taking place, indeed, this country is in big trouble.