Right-Washing the New Deal
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View ArticleMedia Failing Again on Healthcare Reform
First we had AP's zombie numbers, and now we've got cable news, and conservative pundits, all abuzz about testimony yesterday afternoon from CBO Directo about the healthcare reform bills in the...
View ArticleDoug Elmendorf, the CBO, and Reform
The CBO has emerged as the be all and end all for what healthcare reform will and will not do for the nation's economy. Its word is gospel in the traditional media and on the Hill.Here's what Ezra says...
View ArticleWell, The CBO has delayed the BILL once again. Updated with link.
This guy Elmendorf is a joke. Are you telling me that the modifications that were made to this bill is that hard to calculate in 3 days? Out of the 900 billion dollar joke of a plan? The only good...
View ArticleA Cadillac Hybrid (health care funding Labor could love)
(yeah, I too would probably rather be writing about the stunning decision to give Obama the Nobel Peace Prize -- but this is important too, so bear with me!)One of the subsidiary issues in the health...
View ArticleCountering the "Health Care Will Kill 800,000 Jobs" Meme
Cross-posted from Congress Matters.The basis for this meme?The testimony of Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Elmendorf that the new entitlement of the Affordable Health Care act will reduce...
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Memo to Republicans: Economists Laffer at you, not with you
Among the myriad Republican myths about taxes, the most pernicious and demonstrably false—that "tax cuts pay for themselves"—is the mostly deeply held by the GOP faithful. As President George W. Bush...
View ArticleBoehner admits having 'no sense' of job losses due to sequester
Less than two weeks ago, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Douglas Elmendorf warned the House Budget Committee that the looming March 1 sequester would have a devastating impact on U.S....
View ArticleBoehner claims he doesn't know if sequester will hurt economy
As the deadline for the March 1 budget sequester approached, John Boehner made a surprising admission. Asked if he had "a sense of how many jobs will be lost as a result of the sequester," the Speaker...
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For Republicans, CBO stands for Conservative Bulls**t Obliterator
Despite their trumpeting of its latest budget report, it's no secret that Republicans hate the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In 2011, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) denounced...
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Value work? Then tax capital at the same rate as labor
Republicans have a new talking point. Because the latest analysis from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecasts that the Affordable Care Act will give some workers the freedom to work...
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CBO destroyed GOP lies about Obama stimulus program
As their recent disinformation campaign over mythical Obamacare job losses shows, Republicans love the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Except when they hate the CBO, which is most of the time....
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CBO: Obamacare subsidies apply to both state and federal exchanges
Earlier last week, two federal appeals courts reached opposite conclusions as to whether Congress intended for the Affordable Care Act to provide health insurance subsidies to Americans purchasing...
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Republican war on CBO now targets its director
Almost from its inception in 1974, Republicans have hated the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Ever since Capitol Hill's budget scorekeeper presciently predicted Ronald Ronald's magical tax...
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Three ways the GOP will sabotage the government and the economy in 2015
As 2014 comes to a close, the American economy is finally starting to take off. The U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) surged by five percent in the third quarter, the best performance since 2003....
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CBO once again tells GOP Obamacare repeal will increase national debt
For all of the disputes and controversies over the Affordable Care Act, one thing has been consistent. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has repeatedly forecast that Obamacare would...
View ArticleThe Republicans’ dynamic deception for 2016
This week's GOP presidential debate was notable both for what the candidates said and for what they didn't say. Noting that Presidents Obama and Clinton had added 107,000 and 240,000 jobs a month...
View ArticleHoosier Daddy? The man who really delivered the jobs in Indiana
For much of the past week, President-elect Donald Trump boasted about saving 1,000 jobs at the Carrier air conditioning plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. Representing only about half of the positions...
View ArticleAfter Obamacare report, Republicans want to kill the CBO. Again.
The truth, it is said, will set you free. Unless, that is, you are a Republican and the issue is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).Republicans are foaming at the mouth at the nonpartisan agency's...
View ArticleGOP renews its war on the CBO over Trumpcare
“Reality,”Stephen Colbert famously told President Bush in 2006, “has a well-known liberal bias.” And right now, President Trump and his GOP allies in Congress are learning that when it comes to their...
View ArticleCBO: Conservative Bulls**t Obliterator
This past week was a very big one for some very big promises from Republicans in Washington. It didn’t go well for them.Three weeks after House Republicans voted to pass a new version of their...
View ArticleGOP tax plan is the worst jobs bill ever
With apologies to Benjamin Disraeli, there are three kinds of lies Republicans are telling about their tax plan: lies, damned lies, and f**king lies. Constraints of space and time preclude listing them...
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