Investors, business leaders, and politicians reacted Friday night to news that Standard & Poor?s had downgraded the United States? creditworthiness for the first time in its history. But first out of the gate were some GOP presidential hopefuls eager to make campaign hay out of what they see as a failure of the Obama administration.
Here?s what the GOP candidates had to say:
Michele Bachmann
?We were warned by all of the credit agencies that a failure to deal with our debt would lead to a downgrade in our credit rating, but instead he submitted a budget that had a $1.5 trillion deficit and then requested a $2.4 trillion blank check. President Obama is destroying the foundations of the U.S. economy one beam at a time. I call on the President to seek the immediate resignation of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and to submit a plan with a list of cuts to balance the budget this year, turn our economy around and put Americans back to work.?
Mitt Romney
?America?s creditworthiness just became the latest casualty in President Obama?s failed record of leadership on the economy. Standard & Poor?s rating downgrade is a deeply troubling indicator of our country?s decline under President Obama. His failed policies have led to high unemployment, skyrocketing deficits, and now, the unprecedented loss of our nation?s prized AAA credit rating. Today, President Obama promised that ?things will get better.? But it has become increasingly clear that the only way things will get better is with new leadership in the White House.?
Newt Gingrich via Twitter
?The Obama disaster continues. Highest food stamp level and lowest credit rating in history in the same 24 hours.?
Jon Huntsman
?Out-of-control spending and a lack of leadership in Washington have resulted in President Obama presiding over the first downgrade of the United States credit rating in our history. For far too long we have let reckless government spending go unchecked and the cancerous debt afflicting our nation has spread. We need new leadership in Washington committed to fiscal responsibility, a balanced budget, and job-friendly policies to get America working again.?
Herman Cain
?On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner promised that America faced ?no risk? of a credit downgrading. Less than six months later, he is proven shamefully wrong. As I have feared for months, the S&P has chosen to downgrade America?s credit rating from AAA, which we have always enjoyed, to AA+.
?Perhaps this is because the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats never once demonstrated a willingness to propose its own ideas for meaningful spending cuts, something credit agencies signaled were necessary to redeem America?s financial standing in the world.
?As a corporate executive, I?ve rescued companies from the brink of bankruptcy and returned them to profitability. That involved balancing budgets or even creating them in the first place, something that the Democratic leadership in Congress hasn?t done for 828 days. If I couldn?t run companies without budgets, how can the government?
?I also had to make tough budgetary cuts to save companies. Leadership is about doing what?s right, even when it?s difficult. But somehow, that sort of idea was never floated among those within the Obama Administration.
?Now, Americans are fearful for their retirements and for their children?s educational savings. This is a country known for dreamers and innovators, for thinkers and doers. And now, we are a nation living in fear.
?This is a sad day for America. Such a rating is unfitting of the greatest and most prosperous nation the world has ever known. And such a weak leader is, as well.?
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