[Milton Miteybad]

That was the approach I brought to Congress a year and a half ago: weigh costs with results, and make decisions based on the facts, not politics.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office estimates that the compromise measure the House passed on Sunday costs $940 billion, more than $100 billion less than the House-passed bill.

It reduces the deficit by more than $1.3 trillion in the next two decades. It will be the single largest deficit-reduction bill in 27 years.


Sure. It might do that...but only if one were stupid enough to believe the CBO estimates.


Of course, nobody who is actually capable of running a successful business enterprise would be that dumb, though.


So, I guess we know why Betsy Markey went from being an independent business person to being a member of Congress. She longed for the freedom from fiscal reality characteristic of members of Congress.

[mlocher]

She longed for the freedom from fiscal reality characteristic of members of Congress.

Yeah, OPM does that to people. Good observation.