including canada, france, germany, great britain. aa-plus, america joins new zealand and belgium. hello brussels! that puts us a notch above spain and slo vena s aa rating, china and japan, a aa-minus. you got that? a limit? alisyn: all of this is happening, of course, under the watch of treasury secretary tim geithner. so now critics say it s time for geithner to go. timothy geithner has failed the economy and failed this president and the president needs to have him walk the plank, if not for policy reasons he need to needs to do it for the political optics. frfs from mike huckabee. he s not pulling any punches about the treasury chief and is not the only one. many republicans are fired up and we re going to talk to one of them live, straight ahead. bill: what does this mean, consumers across the country trying to figure out how this downgrade will impact them. some experts say it may not be as bad as you think.