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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (203366)1/26/2011 1:59:59 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 361555
 
I thought this is what I saw; glad to see somebody picked up on it....

Bachmann Wrongly Blamed President Bush's Final Year Of Deficits On President Obama
BACHMANN: But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country. Deficits were unacceptably high under President Bush, but they exploded under President Obama's direction, growing the national debt by an astounding $3.1 trillion-dollars.

Bachmann supported her claim with a chart that wrongly attributes the FY 2009 deficit to President Obama:

From

Fact Checking Rep. Bachmann's "Tea Party Response" To The State Of The Union
January 25, 2011 11:45 pm ET
Insisting that she was not upstaging the official GOP response to President Obama's State of the Union, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) offered a combative and highly misleading speech of her own following the president's address. In her "Tea Party Response," Bachmann repeated a litany of false right-wing talking points about everything from the Recovery Act and job losses to the debt and "16,500 IRS agents."
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