NBC’s Todd: Obama Has ‘Credibility’ Deficit (House of cards)
Looks like it’s not just our budget suffering a big deficit. Our president has one too—a credibility deficit . . .
Watching the daily White House press briefings, it’s struck me lately that, if perhaps not quite in Jake Tapper territory, NBC’s Chuck Todd has been asking tougher questions. Reporting on this morning’s Today about the gap between what the Obama admin claims the deficit to be, and the $2+ trillion-higher number calculated by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, Todd declared that Pres. Obama has a “credibility problem.” It was part of Today’s surprisingly skeptical take on PBO’s budget voodoo.
Co-anchor Lester Holt’s show opener broached the topic: “Deep debt. A new forecast says the new president’s ambitious economic agenda will put the country further into the red than he predicted.”
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