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CBO crumbles under health workload
Politico ^ | 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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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.
1 posted on 03/17/2010 1:50:24 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I would suggest the CBO should just quit now while they are behind.


2 posted on 03/17/2010 1:54:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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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.

3 posted on 03/17/2010 1:56:19 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Cloward-Piven at work. Overwhelm the system so it collapses.


4 posted on 03/17/2010 1:56:28 PM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: SE Mom; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

I was just saying “the overworked CBO”.....

(I hate that Wasserman-Shulttz).


5 posted on 03/17/2010 1:57:48 PM PDT by onyx (BE A MONTHLY DONOR - I AM)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

A lady so sweet they named a syphilis test after her...

6 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)
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"We'll FIST the American people!"
7 posted on 03/17/2010 1:59:18 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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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.”


8 posted on 03/17/2010 2:01:15 PM PDT by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

are those guys’ estimates ever even close anyhow?


9 posted on 03/17/2010 2:02:05 PM PDT by MNDude (The Republican Congress Economy--1995-2007)
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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.

10 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)
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To: onyx

Ma’am you posting a live thread for the Obama appearence on Fox tonight?


11 posted on 03/17/2010 2:03:45 PM PDT by Dog
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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.


12 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?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Debbie, I think you’d look better in a Mohawk.


13 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.)
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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.


14 posted on 03/17/2010 2:04:10 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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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.

15 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)
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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”."

16 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)
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To: Gabrial

HA!!


17 posted on 03/17/2010 2:06:40 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
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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."

18 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)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Trying to make 1+1=3 is very hard work.


19 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")
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“LOL.”

[Elvis accent on]

Thank you! Thank you!

[Elvis accent off]


20 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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