[Venturer]

I dont trust the Congressional Budget Office to be non-partisan any more than I do the State Department.

[hinckley buzzard]

The actual members of the CBO may be nonpartisan, but it really is not the most important feature. The fact is, the CBO is nothing but a big adding machine--they are constrained to use only whatever data the congress gives them, and to abide by any parameters or assumptions handed to them.

So when Pelosi says "Here run these numbers" and doesn't give them the half trillion medicare costs, they dutifully comply, and ignore medicare costs.