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CBO crumbles under health workload
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| ERIKA LOVLEY | 3/17/10
| ERIKA LOVLEY
Posted on 03/17/2010 1:50:24 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told House Appropriations Legislative subcommittee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) that his staff has been working 100-hour weeks and cannot keep up with the budgetary and economic impact queries lawmakers have about health care.
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KEYWORDS: 111th; aarrgghhmyeyes; cbo; congress; deemocrats; democrats; elmendorf; elmendorfgoesfishing; healthcare; obama; obamacare; politics; portraitphotoporno
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Wasserman-Schultz (US soldiers are not "real victims" of hate crimes) should have a special place in Hell. It seems unwise to attack a govt. agency that is working 100 hour weeks to provide what she wants.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I would suggest the CBO should just quit now while they are behind.
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
On the one hand, I have no sympathy. In the private sector I have had to work 100+ hour weeks. No fun. On the other hand, I think the CBO should resort to 40 hour weeks for its workers. This would slow down the march to socialism and hopefully bring congress to a grinding halt for a while.
Know your bottlenecks.
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posted on
03/17/2010 1:56:19 PM PDT
by
mlocher
(USA is a sovereign nation)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Cloward-Piven at work. Overwhelm the system so it collapses.
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posted on
03/17/2010 1:56:28 PM PDT
by
Zeddicus
To: SE Mom; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
I was just saying “the overworked CBO”.....
(I hate that Wasserman-Shulttz).
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posted on
03/17/2010 1:57:48 PM PDT
by
onyx
(BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
A lady so sweet they named a syphilis test after her...
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posted on
03/17/2010 1:57:57 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(Build a man a fire; he'll be warm for a night. Set a man on fire; he'll be warm the rest of his life)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"We'll FIST the American people!"
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
If I were the CBO, I would just throw up my hands, and in response to every question about “how much will it cost?” Just answer: “A Gazillion. Whatever you want, it will cost a Gazillion dollars.”
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:01:15 PM PDT
by
henkster
(A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
are those guys’ estimates ever even close anyhow?
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:02:05 PM PDT
by
MNDude
(The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
To: mlocher
On the other hand, I think the CBO should resort to 40 hour weeks for its workers. This would slow down the march to socialism and hopefully bring congress to a grinding halt for a while.The Dems would probably replace the CBO with people who would give them the numbers they wanted, faster.
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:02:07 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
To: onyx
Ma’am you posting a live thread for the Obama appearence on Fox tonight?
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:03:45 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Well all they have to do is punch it into the computer and let the printer spit out, right? What’s the big deal? This HAS to be done by Sat.
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:03:53 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Question: Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Debbie, I think you’d look better in a Mohawk.
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:04:02 PM PDT
by
JPG
(Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
CBO are perhaps the only government bureaucrats I feel sorry for. No human being could keep up with that spending.
To: MNDude
are those guys estimates ever even close anyhow?Not on big government programs. In addition, Dems have framed the analysis in a way that will make obamacare look better.
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:04:40 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf told House Appropriations Legislative subcommittee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) that his staff has been working 100-hour weeks and cannot keep up with the budgetary and economic impact queries lawmakers have about health care.
The CBO Director also said “we have yet to find any calculators that can handle the number of digits required to score these pigs, er, bills. Even the one HP Scientific Calculator we borrowed from NASA melts down when Pelosi gets her redistributive freak on. It seems we may have to forgo citing real numbers and use terms like “a butt load plus”, “you really don't want to know”, and “this makes Greece look like Dave Ramsey”."
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:05:04 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
To: Gabrial
To: Gabrial
The CBO Director also said we have yet to find any calculators that can handle the number of digits required to score these pigs, er, bills. Even the one HP Scientific Calculator we borrowed from NASA melts down when Pelosi gets her redistributive freak on. It seems we may have to forgo citing real numbers and use terms like a butt load plus, you really don't want to know, and this makes Greece look like Dave Ramsey."LOL. And this is just the leftist camel's nose into the tent. Up in AF1, I'll bet Obama told Kucinich, "This is the way to the single payer progressive paradise."
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:10:04 PM PDT
by
ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
(Pat Caddell: Democrats are drinking kool-aid in a political Jonestown)
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
Trying to make 1+1=3 is very hard work.
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:11:30 PM PDT
by
F. dAnconia
(We say: "It is, therefore, I want it. They say: "I want it, therefore it is")
To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
“LOL.”
[Elvis accent on]
Thank you! Thank you!
[Elvis accent off]
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posted on
03/17/2010 2:13:36 PM PDT
by
Gabrial
(The Whitehouse Nightmare will continue as long as the Nightmare is in the Whitehouse)
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