George Rebane
Anyone have any money on Obama actually going to Indonesia in June, or any time soon in a blue moon? Cancelling the double delayed Sunday departure is smart, the scars where his statues were have not yet overgrown with weeds. And the last we heard, they were still painting his welcoming signs.
Bret Baier of Fox News conducted one of the most effective interviews of a sitting President that I have seen in my lifetime (here). He claimed ownership of “my bill” and had no idea what was in it. But he did agree with the Speaker’s proclamation that we need to first pass it (whatever ‘it’ is) so we can find out what we’ve passed. All in all Obama’s non/answers did not sway any true believers, but for the rest of us (independents and knuckledraggers) the interview piled more evidence on to the stack labeled ‘Inexperienced socialist community organizer in charge’.
Meanwhile in the bowels of the Capitol, the Legion of Liberal Liars is going for the Guinness book of records on Obamacare. In addition to their messiah, Pelosi informed us today that CBO’s latest estimate of $940 billion is even less than the $871 figure they gave the Senate’s bill last December. And they still don’t have the votes that they have claimed all week that they have. Nancy’s nose is going to need a splint to keep it up above her waist.
Of course, during all this, everyone on the progressive side is also combing through House books on arcane rules and hidden histories to come up with something even more nasty than Slaughter’s ‘deem and pass’. It boggles the mind to fathom what the House gave the CBO to ‘score’; no one has yet voted on anything – neither the Senate bill, nor any announced set of deemed ‘fixes’.
Historians are going to have a field day on this travesty when they study the fall of Pax Americana. Sociologists and anthropologists will have even more fun putting together our profile as the double dummies who sat on their collective ass, and let the whole thing transpire while mumbling, ‘But we had to do something.’
[update] Here’s an analysis of the actual healthcare from the Heritage Foundation. This afternoon I was struck again with the serious demeanor with which the CBO numbers on deficit reductions, or for that matter, anything else having to do with the federal budget that is more than three months (yes, THREE MONTHS) out are discussed in the media. These guys have a demonstrated capability of successfully predicting federal expenditures that is worse than the IPCC clowns have of predicting climate change. Of course, a lot of it is not their fault because Congress lies to them and/or later does something different. The White House’s OMB makes the CBO look good. The OMB projections are an inside job, the big guy calls out the correct answer, and the boys and girls with eye shades back it up with as many mind numbing numbers as you want. And all of us sheeple just eat it up.
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