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MORE ON THE OBAMA DEFICIT: The White House raised the 2009 budget deficit projection to a stagger?

By Glenn Reynolds

MORE ON THE OBAMA DEFICIT:

The White House raised the 2009 budget deficit projection to a staggering $1.8 trillion today. For context, it took President Bush more than seven years to accumulate $1.8 trillion in debt. It also means that 45 cents of every dollar Washington spends this year will be borrowed.

President Obama continues to distance himself from this “inherited” budget deficit. But the day he was inaugurated, the 2009 deficit was forecast at $1.2 trillion ? meaning $600 billion has already been added during his four-month presidency (an amount that, by itself, would exceed all 2001-07 annual budget deficits). And should the president really be allowed to distance himself from the $1.2 trillion “inherited” portion of the deficit, given that as a senator he supported nearly all policies and bailouts that created it?

No, he shouldn’t be. But the press will try to help him out . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).