york times" sunday, and let's read a little of what you wrote and ask but it, douglas. how can the budget office give a green light to a bill that commits the federal government to spending nearly $1 trillion more over the next ten years? the answer, unfortunately, is that the budget office is required to take written legislation at face value and not second-guess the plausibility of what it is handed. so fantasy in, fantasy out. so some might say, hey, this is just sour grapes, republicans like, you know, love the cbo, when the numbers go their way. and the argument goes and hey, they didn't go your way, you guys are saying, well, they didn't get good numbers. explain why you believe that's not the case. >> well, it's not cbo's fault, but there are rules by which it has to take everything handed to it at face value. in this case that leads to three very misleading parts of the bill. number one, the congress simply left some things out. we know that we're going to have to pay medicare doctors anywhere