Hey folks – THERE IS NO BILL

NO bill has been produced

How does the CBO analyze a non existent bill

bestweather on October 8, 2009 at 3:14 PM

Legal Insurrection agrees with you. THERE IS NO BILL

Meanwhile, Bob Dole puts the GOP on the back and urges them to sign

Dole is 86 years old. I think he might be losing it. He also said a public option would be a disaster. So there you go…I don’t think he really even gets what they are doing up there.

THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.

The CBO scored the concepts described by the Baucus Committee. There is no legislative text. None. Baucus and his Democratic colleagues refused to reduce their concepts to actual legislation prior to a vote. Here is the CBO’s disclaimer:

CBO and JCT’s analysis is preliminary in large part because the Chairman’s mark, as amended, has not yet been embodied in legislative language.

The Baucus Concepts are disasterous, but that’s for another post. For this post, let me get across a simple concept: THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL

Your esteemed Senators on the Senate Finance Committee will not be voting on legislation because THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.

Your esteemed Senators have so little respect for you that some of them are willing to vote in favor of legislation which does not exist because THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.

The actual legislation will be drafted in secret by Harry Reid and a few other people, including staffers whose names and political connections you never will know, and the resulting legislation will be rammed through the Senate and House before anyone gets to read and analyze it.

Months of debate mean nothing. It’s all smoke and mirrors by people who think you are too stupid to realize what is going on.

Have I made myself clear on this? THERE IS NO BAUCUS BILL.
h/t Legal Insurrection

How does the CBO analyze a non existent bill

They gave the CBO a line about what they bill would ‘accomplish’ and the CBO cranked out numbers which were to be run to the press to prove the unwritten bill will save our nation

I cannot remember a greater fraud in an era of gigantic frauds and they almost pulled it off. Thanks to all the bloggers including Legal Insurrection, who are moving to get out the word.
The lying isn’t finished even on the CBO shell game.

I do not blame CBO at this stage, although I would like to find out if there were preliminary correspindances concerning the scoring of the unwritten package. Who moved first on this recent scoring, and what, exactly were they tabulating on?

We need to see the printout CBO used as their description of the Bill to do their scoring and we need to know who supplied that printout. We may never know if the CBO was engaged in feedback to clip or trim the base ‘legislation’ to get the numbers needed by the spinners to con the public

Meanwhile, Bob Dole puts the GOP on the back and urges them to sign

I connit express ecough my total contempt for Bob Dole.

His Americans with Disabilities Act, inspired because he had fuzzy feelings about himself and his struggles, has messed up our nation into a spider web of litagation. Businesses can no longer rent the store upstairs, because without an elevator they will be sued. I still see these vacant once great startup locations around my town. Our public buses had to install lifts for wheelchairs which at any stop can involve ten minutes delay to run the elevator, impeding the commute of the low income people who depend on the bus to get them to work. I have been on these buses, it is a mess and the maintenance on the systems exceeds the wealth of my location. His act changed the disabled into folk we fear, serve and avoid when possible.

Dole thought he deserved the Presidency as a reward for service, and got himself nominated as one more undesirable candidate to anyone except his buddies in the cloakroom

Now he focuses his nation destroying abilities on our healthcare system. The guy runs on feelings, not sense, and I am out of empathy

TheVer:

I think you are a Moby. I really do.

Terrye on October 8, 2009 at 1:23 PM

Agreed…good call…

Man, do I hate libs. Is there anyone more ignorant, immoral, and despicable than the average liberal? A pox on all your houses, you freakin’ morons.

I think you are a Moby. I really do.

I tell you what will work with Independents: a deficit that is 9.9% of GDP. Independents tend to get pretty upset about trillion dollar deficits and higher taxes.

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what the “recociliation” process really means. “Recociliation was adopted as a an optional practice to be employed under the “Pay-Go” rules to limit deficit spending. To reconcile in this sense is to reconcile spending with revenues.

Dean is Either bluffing or the DNC is holding Elmendorf’s children in “an undisclosed secure location” in ransom against serious budget fudging.
Archimedes on August 17, 2009 at 7:54 PM

Has anyone seen Elmendorf’s kids recently?