The new, “dynamic” CBO will be systematically biased to make conservative proposals appear misleadingly cheap and liberal proposals misleadingly costly to the public fisc. This would be true even if the Republicans were soliciting a fair range of forecasting perspectives. By its design, the dynamic scoring rule allows the party in power to game its effects. It applies “dynamic scoring” only to legislation affecting 0.25 percent of Gross Domestic Product. As Chye-Ching Huang and Paul Van de Water point out, congressional leaders can manipulate this requirement easily: They can break up large pieces of legislation into smaller bills to avoid dynamic scoring, or combine smaller pieces into a major bill, if needed to make their agenda appear more affordable. Dynamic scoring is subject to abuse by its very design.
Ugh..... I really don't wanna pull my stocks back in.... but.... this is not going to be pretty for a while.
Yeah, hang on; it's gonna be full tilt wingnut like we've not seen before for the next couple of years. It would actually be funny if it weren't so pathetic.
Yeah, our palms and faces will have blisters on them before this is even close to an end. I saw a photo of Michelle Bachmann the other day pointing to a gas price sign as if she's somehow responsible for the lower prices.....one of her presidential campaign promises is that gas would be under 2 dollars a gallon if she were elected.....but she wasn't elected.
Yeah, our palms and faces will have blisters on them before this is even close to an end. I saw a photo of Michelle Bachmann the other day pointing to a gas price sign as if she's somehow responsible for the lower prices.....one of her presidential campaign promises is that gas would be under 2 dollars a gallon if she were elected.....but she wasn't elected.