The president takes credit for this???

[Decus]

"But in its analysis of the Senate-passed plan, the CBO said fiscal 2013 revenues would be $280 billion lower and spending $50 billion higher, resulting in a $330 billion deficit increase, for a total deficit of around $971 billion."

Senate's "fiscal cliff" bill adds $4 trillion to deficits: CBO - Yahoo! News

And this was the man who rode into office promising to cut the deficit in half.

 

[alan1]

Yet, he somehow managed to double the national in debt less than 4 years.