08/09/11
 

By Doug Cunningham, Workers Independent News
 
Tea Party Republicans got more of what they apparently wanted Monday as the Dow plunged more than 600 points in the wake of the Standard & Poor’s downgrading of the U.S. government’s credit rating.

AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka says Tea Party Republicans have repeatedly been a united front against working people, doing all the harm they can.

Intent on destroying President Obama even if it means also destroying the economy again, Tea Party rigidity on new revenues and its brinkmanship on the debt ceiling debate have led us to the worst stock market since the Great Recession.