At least you guys are being somewhat honest. Tea partiers and the like to not lend themselves to such honesty. The Bush tax cuts were a Republican demand which they forced Obama to accept to prevent them from shutting the government. I can't in good conscience call this an Obama addition to the deficit. It's even a stretch to call recovery measures Obama additions since they were shock reactions to a (largely) Republican crash of the economy but in the interest of being non partisan I will put them (as the graph does) in the Obama column.