CBO crumbles under health workload

Politico ^ | ERIKA LOVLEY | 3/17/10 | ERIKA LOVLEY

[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.

[onyx]

I guess I could, my gallant Sir,....Let me find a nice link. :)

[wiggen]

she has fangs

[TankerKC]

...100-hour weeks...

That's just the kind of exaggeration I want from the CBO Chief. </sarcasm>

[clintonh8r]

An Adam’s apple and a hairdo that screams “1982!”

[ETCM]

Since Obama called CBO to the Whitehouse Woodshed, followed quickly by revision of CBO numbers for the senate bill, I don’t have any faith in their numbers. They appear to say what they are told to say since then.

[topfile]

Cooking the Books....

[RWGinger]

““A Gazillion. Whatever you want, it will cost a Gazillion dollars.”
BRILLIANT
and sadly true
There is a reason that a Congressional Quarterly report saying the CBO scored the new bill at over a trillion. This was last night but by morning the Quartely report was gone.

We know this filth will lie and do whatever they need to to get this rammed

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Since Obama called CBO to the Whitehouse Woodshed, followed quickly by revision of CBO numbers for the senate bill, I don’t have any faith in their numbers. They appear to say what they are told to say since then.

And yet the Dems are still b****ing about their numbers.

[topfile]

are those guys’ estimates ever even close anyhow?

Garbage in Garbage out, it's a shell game.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

We know this filth will lie and do whatever they need to to get this rammed

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[Carley]

Just an excuse for not releasing their numbers which do not comport with the wishes of the maoists.

[Raycpa]

I guess we just have to pass it then so we can see how much it will cost us.

[Leo Farnsworth]

“...The CBO Director also said “we have yet to find any calculators that can handle the number of digits...”

The simple calculator that came standard on my WindowsXP machine will do more than 30 digits!

A trillion is only 13 digits!

Hey CBO! Go to:

Start

Programs

Accessories

CALCULATOR!

[Brett66]

What’s so hard about making a SWAG? Their numbers will probably be off by an order of magnitude anyway.

[Barb4Bush]

Like everyone else in Congress she’s a bloodsucker.

[Leo Farnsworth]

One trillion in binary:

1110100011010100101001010001000000000000

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

They are probably required to use a 1980 calculator. Government knows best.

[AFreeBird]

My iPhone calc, in landscape (scientific mode) does 16 digits, and of course can deal with exponential notation.

[Califelephant]

...”this makes Greece look like Dave Ramsey”...

LOL!