As of last week, the president had played 102 rounds of golf since taking office. According to White House reporter Keith Koffler, each golf outing takes about five hours. Using arithmetic — something apparently unfamiliar to Democrats, given their staunch refusal to pass a federal budget — Obama has spent about 510 hours golfing.
This compares to a total of “412 hours … in economic meetings or briefings of any kind”, according to a time study published by The Government Accountability Insititute (PDF)…
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