ObamaCare Gets a Red Light from Congressional Budget Office

Pajamas Media ^ | July 17 | Rick Moran

[AJKauf]

This double dose of doom has made absolutely no impact on Capitol Hill. Three House committees seem ready to report out a $1.5 trillion health care reform measure while the Senate Finance Committee appears close to a bipartisan deal on how to fund it — this, despite the fact that the CBO chief has told them there is no way to pay for it.

It is like being in a bad dream where there’s a fire in a room where a dinner party is being held and you’re the only one who notices. Everyone else is still playing cards, eating, or sitting around having witty conversations, all the while the fire laps closer and closer.

But it’s not a nightmare and lawmakers really are ignoring the fire. Elmendorf doesn’t come up with these projections to amuse himself and the wonks at CBO. He has outlined a recipe for catastrophe that will eventually make the United States a second rate economic power, not to mention impoverish the population.

The president and Democrats have been pitching this plan as a cost-saving measure. The president especially has been warning that we have to pass this reform bill quickly in order to get control of the spiraling deficits grimly outlined in Elmendorf’s long-term budget outlook..

[FlingWingFlyer]

Time to bury ObamaCare before it starts smelling worse than it already does.

[kromike]

Time to impeach The First Thug & most of Congress for sheer recklessness & incompetency of the highest order.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Don’t expect the One and his congress to listen to reason. Call the bums now.

[erkyl]

The CBO said the stimulus was going to hurt, not help, and no one listened then either. Why should the Congress listen to the CBO on health care?

Remember, the goal is to destroy the economy so the people become dependent on government. (Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals.) Everything is working as it was intended.

[tbpiper]

Time to impeach The First Thug

How dare you call the Gelding-in-Chief a 'thug'.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But it’s not a nightmare and lawmakers really are ignoring the fire.

Oh, they're not ignoring it. Liberal commentators are already saying that this report shows how essential it is to tax health-care benefits, which would effectively end health care as a job benefit and corral everyone into the government health plan. Look for Democrats to revive that issue soon. In the Democratic worldview, reports of fiscal insanity are opportunities to extend government control.

[Truth is a Weapon]

If this follows the Administration pattern, several heads will be chopped off at the CBO.

[ridesthemiles]

Re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic !!

How many think we were wrong about NObama and his birth certificate now???