The message from Moody's today was pretty straightforward: Come on guys, get your stuff together, stop it with the brinksmanship, and pass the debt ceiling. If you don't goodbye AAA.

It was a message aimed right at politicians, but obviously politicians aren't going to let a ratings agency derail their agenda. So instead the message is already being twisted.

Congressmen are already blasting out their responses.

For example, this:

U.S. Congressman Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee, released the following in response to Moody's statement:

"It is no idle threat that Americans faces a credit rating downgrade if the President and Congress don't act quickly to get our country's fiscal house in order.

"According to Moody's, the right path forward includes 'meaningful progress toward substantial and credible long-term deficit reduction.' As a recent Joint Economic Committee Study points out, reducing government spending and debt grows economies. As we've seen in recent years, deficit spending and quantitative easing holds back economic growth."

Eh, Moody's didn't exactly threaten a downgrade if Washington didn't quickly get its house in order. It threatened a downgrade if the debt ceiling wasn't raised. Yes, Moody's also said that reforms needed to be made, but that wasn't the thrust of it.

So what we're getting is the same response as when S&P made a warning: Both sides are just digging in. As one Hill source put it: Geithner keeps insisting on his line, while the Freshmen stick to their "hell no" line.

In a Tweet, GOP Congressman Joe Walsh said: "Just spent 30min w/ Geithner and I'm disgusted and discouraged. We can't roll over & settle the way he wants us to. America deserve better."

Disgusted? Yes, so much for everyone coming together.

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