Road Map: Obama Parrots Bush’s Promises of Deficit Cut

• By Steven T. Dennis
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 24, 2009, Midnight

Who woulda thought that President Barack Obama would take a PR cue from former President George W. Bush? At least on one key measure, he will — promising at a budget summit Monday to “cut in half” the $1.3 trillion deficit that he inherited by the end of his first term.