The front page lede is an AP wire that describes the president's efforts to actively combat the deficit, click to enlarge:
If Republicans supposedly hammered the president, they were shot down by Obama's factual answers. He is not running monthly deficits equivalent to Bush's annual deficits. That's pure lie. If you actually read the AP story, it too leaves out quite a bit.Obama said "pay-as-you-go" rules that were in place in the 1990s led to surpluses at the end of the decade. But after Congress eliminated the rules, Obama said the result was the $1.3 trillion deficit he faced upon taking office in January 2009.Um, about those rules. Guess who eliminated those rules? It was the very conservative and fiscally responsible REPUBLICANS! Guess who is responsible for the deficit? REPUBLICANS. The Obama administration had nothing to do with the $1.3 trillion deficit that was in place when he took office. That deficit, the one that Republicans and Fox News are now so concerned about came directly from, um, REPUBLICANS.
So yeah Fox News, let's talk about the deficit. Let's talk about who it is that is trying to rein in spending. Let's talk about how it is totally insane to think the very people responsible for all of it are now the ones "hammering" the president to force him to take measures to reduce it. Um, yeah, let's do this. Quit with your lying and quit with your force fed Fantasy and take responsibility because you aren't doing any favors. Where were you when REPUBLICANS ran up the largest deficit in human history??? You sure weren't running front page stories about reining in spending. Bunch of freakin' pansies.
