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Obama Takes Down Hensarling At GOP Retreat (VIDEO)

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At today’s Q&A between President Obama and House GOP-ers, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) asked the president a long question about the budget and the deficit.

Hensarling claimed that Obama had increased the national deficit by the same rate per month as Republicans had per year.

But Obama (who continually referred to Hensarling as “Jim”) wasn’t having any of it.

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