Apparently it was so terrible he went and added a third. Without the approval of congress btw. That seems to be your response, because your only answer is "tax the rich" who don't have enough money to do what you want. Assuming of course they'd be dumb enough to stay in this country with the punitive tax rates you want. Who proposed a plan, and actually voted it through the House that did what S&P said was necessary? A bad deal which doesn't do the job is no reason to compromise. They foolishly caved in and agreed to a bad deal, and here is the result. I haven't seen too many conservatives say they have any liking for the moron in chief. That's expecting them to have a higher yield since the interest rate on them should rise. It would probably help if you understood the bond market. And if the president ever displays any intelligence, be sure to let us know, we haven't seen much of a display of that from him. What 4 trillion+ deal? By all means do give us a link to that plan. Remember, CBO said they don't score speeches, and that's the only place we've seen any of the economic plans you attribute to your lord and master. A speech isn't a plan, talking points aren't plans. Plans have details, where are his? As for patriotic, some are trying, yet you demonize them because you would rather kill the country than admit you're wrong. Because this country is DEAD unless the spending government has gotten addicted to is broken, unless those entitlement programs you love are radically altered or removed outright, defense spending is cut, and the monstrosity that is our tax code is completely throw out and revamped. Some are trying to do those things, and you call them Tea Party extremists. With luck they and people like them will save this country in spite of people like you.