The Washington Monthly: CBO KEEPS TELLING THE GOP WHAT IT DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR

[dennis4868]

March 11: CBO KEEPS TELLING THE GOP WHAT IT DOESN'T WANT TO HEAR.... For a group of officials who insist deficit reduction is their top priority, they have an odd habit of embracing an agenda that would make the deficit worse.

A Republican plan to withhold implementation funds for the Democrats' new healthcare law would add $5.7 billion to the deficit over 10 years, the nonpartisan congressional scorekeeper said Thursday.

In a long-term spending bill approved last month, House Republicans voted to block the federal government from using funds to implement the sweeping reform law, enacted almost a year ago. The defunding vote has become a point of contention as Republicans and Democrats try to hammer out a long-term spending measure to keep the government running past March 18.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Thursday that choking off implementation funds would cut the deficit by $1.6 billion for the rest of the year, but it would increase spending by $3.1 billion in 2012 and by smaller amounts each year through 2021.



The CBO's analysis comes on the heels of word from the Department of Health and Human Services that choking off implementation funds would also prevent Medicare from paying benefits for millions of seniors -- a result Republicans claim to want to avoid.

The rest is here....http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_03/028405.php

[SpiralHawk]

1. CBO to repubs: "You are full of shit"

As any honest American is well aware

[dennis4868]

2. Now I read that....

that repubs want to underfund the CBO....it never stops with these fucking assholes....

[Jackpine Radical]

3. As well they should.

It's annoying to have to keep your fingers in your ears all the time in order to maintain your denial while some shrill know-it-all is persistently trying to scream facts at you.

[cilla4progress]

4. When oh when will people listen and learn?

Why oh why do people continue to allow themselves to be deluded?

[Andy823]

5. The republican plan!

They don't care what anybody says, their plan is to make sure things stay the way they are, or worse so they can try and get back the WH and the senate in the next election! The idiots think the american people will blame it all on Obama, not them! While their brain dead base will fall for this crap, the majority of americans will NOT! These morons are doing all they can to give the country away to the rich corporations, and while the corporations may come out better, the republican party is cutting it's own throat, a good thing for democrats, but not good for the country!

It will take years and years of court battles to undo all the crap the republicans will have done by the next election! Once again for those who didn't bother to vote because they wanted to "send a message" to Obama, I hope you are happy!

[Mimosa]

6. That's not why people didn't vote

I was a poll watcher, both 2008 and 2010 elections. The youth vote and the black and latino voters who crowded the polling places in long lines for the days before and on Super Tuesday 2008 just didn't show up. They probably didn't think congressional and Gubernatorial elections were important. Not enough ad support to counter the traditional malaise.

[Festivito]

7. I wonder, how many Republican reps don't know their talking points are just talk?

If I found one was serious, all I could do is laugh.