I just love it when anyone refers to the CBO as nonpartisan. Not surprising for the NYT who treat their readers as if they were morons. The CBO (and OMB for that matter) is a political organizations with an agenda. There is nothing nonpartisan about them.
From the WSJ:
The errors were not random. They were strongly and consistently biased against pro-market, pro-growth reforms, and they are the long-recognized results of outdated methodologies employed by federal scoring agencies. The end result is that such errors greatly hamper or prevent Congress from adopting policies that would maximize economic growth and personal prosperity.
Kind of like when the NYT decides that we've forgotten that Kerry served in Vietnam.
In a sense, the CBO actually is nonpartisan. After all, the CBO is 230 beltway PhD's who are being paid to justify congressional spending regardless of party affiliation. I guess the beltway does weird things to people's thinking. Anyone's thinking, and why not? Hell, if they paid me say, $10 billion, I'd be willing to 'prove' that 2+2=5 and I'd even believe it enough to pass a lie detector test.
[sigh] Don't I wish.