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Obama Trying to STRONG-ARM Congressional Budget Office into Better Health Care Numbers
NBC News/The Lid ^ | 7/21/09 | The Lid

Posted on 07/21/2009 2:02:44 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

Our Bully-in-Chief is at it again. His new target is the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Remember last week when the CBO testified before Congress about Obamacare being a budget buster, and how it will drive up health costs? That report was a major blow to the President's push toward socialized medicine.

The report was truthful, but the truth does not play well in Chicago politics. In Chicago, when the numbers don't work, you don't change the program, you change the numbers.

And wouldn't you know, as a guest on this morning's today show, the President mentioned that he just had a meeting with the CBO (see video).

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: cbo; federalbudget; healthcare; mugabe; obama; thekenyanway

1 posted on 07/21/2009 2:02:45 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit
NBC? Really?

The worm turns . . .

2 posted on 07/21/2009 2:05:18 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, hey-hey, ho-ho!)
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To: jeffc

Looks like socialized healthcare is dead, at least for now, but I would like the gov to take a look at some of obama’s reform ideas as well as tort reform.


3 posted on 07/21/2009 2:08:56 PM PDT by DonaldC
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To: Shellybenoit

He hasn’t even taken time to set his feet and get a lay of the land. Chicago thug politics.


4 posted on 07/21/2009 2:12:10 PM PDT by allmost
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5 posted on 07/21/2009 2:13:14 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Shellybenoit

Don’t you wish one time people would stand up and do the right thing for no other reason than it being the right thing???????? Where are their backbones??


6 posted on 07/21/2009 2:16:03 PM PDT by cubreporter
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7 posted on 07/21/2009 2:17:09 PM PDT by socialismisinsidious ( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
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To: Shellybenoit
1984 !

Big Brother orders a Re-Write !

8 posted on 07/21/2009 2:17:46 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: Shellybenoit

9 posted on 07/21/2009 2:21:34 PM PDT by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: Shellybenoit

He isn’t even supposed to have contact with the CBO, he has his own office of budget and management, he is breaking the law.


10 posted on 07/21/2009 2:26:02 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Shellybenoit

Our DOTUS (Dictator of the United States) has overstepped his authority. Who will confront him? Is there anyone with a spine in our Government right now?


11 posted on 07/21/2009 2:30:40 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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12 posted on 07/21/2009 2:33:26 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Does Zer0 have any friends, who are not criminals, foreign/domestic terrorists, or tax cheats?)
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To: jeffc

I believe the media is so willingly reporting this because they are trying to help Obama. They want us to relax and stop fighting this issue because we think the battle is won. Do not fall for this again! There were no PUMAs.

Those who live in states with Blue Dog leadership need to pound them and keep pounding them until the defeat is so humiliating that Obama won’t dare raise it for the rest of his term.


13 posted on 07/21/2009 2:39:16 PM PDT by Melian ("An unexamined life is not worth living." ~Socrates)
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To: Shellybenoit
What does Yid with Lid have to do with NBC? That is not an NBC website, it is his, writing about an NBC interview. It will be a cold day before NBC actually reports that BO is trying to strong-arm CBO on the cost of Obamacare, although you would have to be brain dead not to figure it out from their lame interview. He nearly said he made CBO an offer they can't refuse.

I think BO sees his bid to take over the health-care sector and present us with socialized medicine is circling the drain. And I certainly hope it is.

14 posted on 07/21/2009 2:51:57 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: DonaldC
I would like the gov to take a look at some of obama’s reform ideas as well as tort reform.

Just curious, what ideas are you referring to?

Don't expect Tort reform from the Communist Lawyer in Chief. If he were for that, he would have tackled that before even trying to touch the medical issue.

15 posted on 07/21/2009 3:45:45 PM PDT by SteamShovel (When hope trumps reality, there is no hope at all.)
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To: La Lydia

the source of the interview was NBC


16 posted on 07/21/2009 5:23:39 PM PDT by Shellybenoit (http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com)
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