"Thanks, George!" Love, Obama

In case you missed it, I wrote a post about a month ago debunking the myth that George LeMieux was a "conservative" during his few months in the Senate:

Sunshine State Sarah | Reality check on LeMieux's "conservative" voting record 

Well, looks like I have an addendum to that post. Check out this press release from the Adam Hasner campaign earlier this week...it doesn't sound so conservative when Obama is thanking LeMieux for breaking ranks with Republicans, does it?

Some commentary on the U.S. credit rating downgrade

In case you missed all the excitement on Friday, Standard & Poor's downgraded the United States' credit rating from AAA to AA+.

To put this in perspective, this is the first time our credit rating has been downgraded in over a century. The 1929 Stock Market Crash, the Great Depression, World War I and II, the Jimmy Carter years, September 11th...none of these events were damaging enough to downgrade our credit rating, but two and a half years under President Obama was.

Our AAA credit rating survived President Jimmy Carter.Sat Aug 06 00:55:05 via UberSocial for BlackBerryRory Cooper
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After the jump, a selection of some commentary from around the conservative blogosphere: