Obama's math doesn't add up

By Erick Erickson, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Erick Erickson is the editor in chief of RedState.com.

How the president will be able to cut the deficit while also increasing spending -- and not increasing taxes -- is a feat no president has ever accomplished and which this president also failed to explain in his speech.

Voters see the first stimulus as a failure, understand that few private sector jobs were created by it and know intrinsically that any new programs will just compound government spending.

For the past year, this president has used "Bush" as his favorite four-letter word. Wednesday, the president repeatedly spoke derisively about the prior administration and the problems the Obama administration inherited. But the voters have moved on from blaming George W. Bush -- and Obama did not show voters he gets that and gets that new government jobs and new government programs are not the order of the day.

As much as he would prefer the present economic situation to still be George W. Bush's fault, the return policy has expired, and Barack Obama must now own it.

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