Ah yes, and one did not exactly have to be Nostradamus to see something like this coming.
1) S&P downgrades US debt due primarily to the fact that we have a more-dysfunctional political system than your average Banana Republic (oooh! Bananas!!!)
2) US "investigates" S&P rating process.
Translation:
"OH YEAH! OH YEAH! MAYBE I AM BUT SO ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!"
Nice one, Obitchba. You are too much of a pussy to keep in check a bunch of illiterate jackoffs in Paul Revere outfits and allow these selfsame ass clowns to halfway run our economy off a cliff edge. S&P calls bullshit on the whole sorry, sordid process, and a week or so later you launch this transparent, ham-handed and silly little retaliatory strike.
The Monkey is certain that all of those folks in the market for T-paper just think SO MUCH more highly of the US and its political stability now.