the mess. kind of goes with our ca casablanca theme. it does. you re there, maybe someone will allow you to eat it, bring it out. we can only hope. someday they will.
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 d
this seat. and you had speaker nancy pelosi, majority leader harry reid, in the oval office. vice president was there, chief of staff, rahm emanuel was there, and it was very tense. the president was saying, okay, how are we going to move this bill forward now, harry reid of saying, i don t have 60 votes any longer in the senate. there s not much i can do. and nancy pelosi did not like the sound of that because not because she s unhappy or uncooperative, but because she knew her house members. and she knew that she could not sell it to them. and apparently repeatedly made that point to which the president said he he snapped and said, you know, okay, nancy, i hear you, what s your suggestion? well, and moving on, you in the last sort of two weeks, before passage came on sunday night, you talk about when the president really got into this hand-to-hand campaigning himself. and not with the public but with these house members, talk about
has to authorize and approve it. that s their response. this bill is, quote, mandatory spending. it doesn t require annual action by congress. it is now the law of the land. we re talking about discretionary spending. that s $100 billion. hardly a tiny amount of money. but they are going to have to do it if they are going to run programs. so it s not an option. doug holtz-eakin, former in the hot seat, chuck. it s something i wish we could spend more time w we ve got to have you back, doug. thank you so much. still ahead, the last supper supersized? oh, lord. what s the deal with the guy behind president obama, not the vice president. keep looking that guy. you ll see him in a moment. hey!
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