Standard & Poor’s Puts ‘Negative’ Outlook on U.S. AAA Rating

I'm going to go ahead and guess that this is more noise than anything with substance, but it is still noteworthy.
From Bloomberg:

“We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policy makers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013,” New York-based S&P said in a report today. “If an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation does not begin by then, this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-18/standard-poor-s-puts-negative-outlook-on-u-s-aaa-rating.html