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A hazy shade of B.S.: White House blames lousy GDP growth on winter. Seriously.

Well, the numbers are in, and they’re pretty ugly. From the beginning of January 2014 to the end of March, GDP rose by a paltry 0.1 percent. Economists had expected to see at least one percent growth. Whoops.

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That’s actually the basic gist of the White House’s take on things:

https://twitter.com/AaronBlakeWP/status/461515591077994496

That explains everything!

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/461515849527214080

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/461522408172969985

https://twitter.com/LoganDobson/status/461516583626891265

Blame it on anything but the Obama administration’s horrendous economic policy.

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Well, yeah. But Reagan didn’t have to contend with climate change like President Obama does!

https://twitter.com/chelseagrunwald/status/461523192516186113

https://twitter.com/DANEgerus/status/461518422551961600

Evidently the weather machine only functions within U.S. borders:

Because apparently they don’t have winter up there.

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Pretty brutal, no doubt.

At least some individual states dealing with chilly temps made out OK:

https://twitter.com/ScottLofquist/status/461516161973096450

But let’s be honest:

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/461531005661487104

Heh. Meanwhile:

We’d better take pre-emptive actions now!

https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/461527918259490816

https://twitter.com/JDtheBard/status/461529536362864640

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