In 2008 the American people voted in the Democrat nominee for president. This had happened mostly because of the numerous failures of the George W. Bush administration that slowly was destroying the United States, mostly through the economy. The current president time and time again keeps a lot of the same failed policies in place that didn't work in the first place because he isn't handling the pressure from republican members of congress. Now the U.S.'s credit rating has gone down after about 100 years. The reasoning for our credit rating going down because GOP members of congress have kept our gov't hostage for over 8 months and would not negotiate any tax reform. It's time to tell Mr. Obama stop allowing the republicans to push him around and for the GOP to stop deceiving the American people with lies just for political gain.