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Steak Dinners and Slurpees: Numbers Refute Obama’s Attempt to Blame Deficits on Tax Cuts and Wars

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, June 14 2012

In his most petulant and desperate demeanor yet, Barack Obama this week doubled down on blaming his own fiscal failures on George W. Bush. Speaking at a fundraiser – what else? – in Baltimore, Obama also unveiled a new pet metaphor, substituting “steak dinner” for his familiar “slurpee” and “car in the ditch” analogies: “I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit! (Laughter)… So this notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. (Laughter) It’s just not true. And anybody who looks at…

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