Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: It’s no secret whom Sen. John Kerry blames for the recent downgrade of the U.S.’s credit rating: the tea party. 
  
  
  
 On NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the Massachusetts Democrat called Standard & Poor’s lowering of the nation’s credit rating from AAA to AA+ “without question, [a] tea party downgrade.” 
  
  
  
 “A minority of people in the House of Representative countered even the will of many Republicans in the United States Senate, who were prepared to do a bigger deal,” he said. 
  
  
  
 Kerry defended President Barack Obama’s repeated efforts to put a grand bargain deal on the table, which would have cut upward of $4 trillion from the deficit over a decade, rather than the final debt ceiling deal that cuts between $2.1 to $2.4 trillion. 
  
  
  
 While many were willing to compromise, Kerry said other Republicans took too much of a hardline position against raising taxes. 
  
  
  
 “What we need is a Washington that stops this bickering, that gets rid of these hard positions,” he concluded. 
  
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  ||||| Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean says the tea party was "totally unreasonable" in the deficit-reduction debate and warns that Republicans are being held hostage. 
  
  
  
 "This is a tea party problem," Dean said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "They are totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality. I think they've been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it." 
  
  
  
 "This is ridiculous what's going on here," he said. 
  
  
  
 The firebrand Democrat and former Vermont governor said the Standard & Poor's downgrade of the nation's credit is "a good thing" because it underscores the need to raise revenue to address the nation's fiscal crisis. 
  
  
  
 But he said certain elements of the Republican Party make it impossible for reasonable people to do what Dean said is right -- raising taxes on the wealthy. 
  
  
  
 "The American people are there; Democrats are there. A lot of reasonable Republicans are there," he said. "But they are terrified of these right-wing splinter groups, the radical right, because they are so powerful in the primaries." 
  
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  ||||| Outgoing White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee went on the attack against Standard & Poor’s on Sunday, charging the agency’s credit downgrade was based on “questionable mathematics.” 
  
  
  
 The rating agency lowered the U.S. credit rating on Friday from a top AAA to AA+, but not before the Treasury Department discovered an accounting error by Standard & Poor’s and urged the agency not to downgrade. 
  
  
  
 “They made a $2 trillion math error, and they didn’t check their work,” Goolsbee said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” 
  
  
  
 Goolsbee also called for policymakers to focus not just on the deficit but also on longer-term proposals aimed at boosting job creation and lowering the nation’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate. 
  
  
  
 He pointed to several economic initiatives that could gain bipartisan support, such as extending the payroll tax cut and acting on pending free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea. 
  
  
  
 “There is a danger that if we just keep saying it’s all about the short-run deficit, we are losing sight of the fact that we’ve got to reignite the engine of job growth,” he said. 
  
  
  
 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan acknowledged that S&P’s downgrade “hit the self esteem of the United States” but said U.S. Treasury bonds are still a safe investment. 
  
  
  
 “This is not an issue of credit ratings,” Greenspan said. “The U.S. can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So, there is zero probability of default.” 
  
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Student:
If nothing else, the S&P downgrade made for a lively August Sunday on the talk show circuit, with anyone who is anyone booking an appearance to sling some blame for the US' brand new AA+ rating. The Democrats pointed directly at the Tea Party and its refusal to raise revenues, with Howard Dean sounding a typical note: "They are totally unreasonable and doctrinaire and not founded in reality," he complained on Face the Nation. "I think they've been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it." The downgrade is a wakeup call that the US simply has to have more revenue to pull itself out of the ditch, he said. Elsewhere on your Sunday dial, as per Politico: Lindsey Graham blasts President Obama: He's had a "lousy presidency that is only getting worse. He is failing and it's not the Tea Party's fault. What was hope and change is despair and confusion." Austan Goolsbee on the S&P: “They made a $2 trillion math error and they didn’t check their work." Alan Greenspan on the downgrade: It "shot the self-esteem of the United States," but "This is not an issue of credit ratings. The US can pay any debt because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” John McCain defends the S&P downgrade: “Don’t shoot the messenger. Is there anyone who believes S&P is wrong?" David Axelrod blames the Tea Party: "The Tea Party brought us to the brink of default. This is essentially a Tea Party downgrade," Graham loves the Tea Party: "If we had listened to the Tea Party, we would have $4 trillion in reduction in debt over time and not been downgraded. Thank God they're here." John Kerry blames the Tea Party: “A minority of people in the House of Representative countered even the will of many Republicans in the United States Senate, who were prepared to do a bigger deal." Paul Ryan blames everybody: "Both parties got us to where we are. I'm not very surprised at this downgrade. We more or less saw this coming."