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.

[VOA]

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[True Republican Patriot]

One Ugly Witch!! Outside and most probably Inside!! A Real Obnoxious and Anti-American JAP!

[True Republican Patriot]

One Ugly Witch!! Outside and most probably Inside!! A Real Obnoxious and Anti-American JAP!

[Hoodat]

100-hr work weeks? I wonder what the unions have to say about that.

[Hoodat]

She looks like a professional blind date.

[SeattleBruce]

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

Right. We must prop up the system against the onslaught, hope the CBO comes out with favorably negative scoring to this crap sandwich, and then do guerilla warfare with the COWARD (sic)-PIVEN types...socialist morons.

[Rodamala]

There are 10 types of people out there in the world...
Those that can read binary, and those that can not.

[SeattleBruce]

“are those guys’ estimates ever even close anyhow?”

Good point. They’re usually 6 to 10 TIMES shy of actual costs...for instance Medicare and Medicaid has been that way.

That makes the whole fed government and all they say and promise to us - A PATENT JOKE.

[PghBaldy]

Note that the Doofus in Chief “needs” to have an apron with the Presidential Seal ...

[PghBaldy]

I heard “by 12” noon. THEN, 72 hours after that, the vote can be taken, if Dems want to keep their promise about posting of bill.

[Ditto]

The Dems would probably replace the CBO with people who would give them the numbers they wanted, faster.

I'm sure ACORN would send in some very qualified GEDs to cook up an answer in no time at all. They might even find a surplus for a whore house or two staffed with underage illegals up on Capital Hill.

That would sure get the fence sitters to decide.

[nutmeg]

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... Great post, Gabrial!

[SFConservative]

So far, the CBO seems to have had enough brass between their lower extremities to not simply echo the BS the Rats are claiming in terms of economic savings of these insane HC bills. They may be under more pressure now but Elmendorf seems to have some integrity left. When they oust him you will know that Fascism has truly arrived. Yes, I’m saying “when”, not “if”.

[RocketMan1]

And I quote Austin Powers,, International Man of Mystery: “.. she’s a man, baby!”

[crosshairs]

It takes awhile to clean the numbers off, after they PULL THEM OUT OF THEIR A$$!

[SunkenCiv]

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.

Wait until it passes, Elmendorf. Thanks ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This whole thing is sickening.

[SunkenCiv]

When Obama and his nitwit quislings in both Houses of Congress put together an emergency appropriations bill for the Iran war (which appears to be weeks away), it’ll have some or all of the Obamacare crap inside it.