progress. >> despite, and calls for geithner to go, the president is sticking with geithner and his claim that thous shares no blame. >> any responsibility for the downgrade? >> i couldn't say it better than the secretary of the treasury said it. >> but ed, i assume you read the s&p document, the downgrade had everything to do with the political gridlock. >> top advise ors are blaming the tea party. >> the tea party brought to us the brink of a default. >> three years in to this. he is failing. hope and change despair and confusion. >> in fairness, the bush administration left this debt mess in part because of wars that were not funded. it's been adding to the debt handily.