Claim: When Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
Fact-check: Bachmann said Standard & Poor's downgrade proved she was right
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan
Date published: 2011-08-12T00:00:00