Is thr CBO left-leaning...
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Do Republicans lean left?
Republicans picked the Congressional Budget Office chief. Now they’re attacking the office over health plan assessment.
Price failed to mention that as House Budget chairman, he’d helped recommend the CBO’s current director, Keith Hall, and praised him for his “vast understanding” of economic policy. For all the criticisms Trump and other Republicans are heaping on the independent budget office, its chairman was picked by GOP House and Senate leaders to provide advice to a GOP-controlled Congress.
The attacks also sidestep the aim of the CBO: to provide nonpartisan analyses so that Congress has its own assessments on the budgetary and economic impacts of legislation. Now, many Republicans are dismissing their own scorekeeper.
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/03/14/republicans-attack-congressional-budget-office-health-plan/
No. You are an extremist on the right so everything you view that doesn't align with your crazy wingnut philosophy is "leaning left". You prove it constantly but at least you have a lot of company.
In on what? In on have personal bias which affects the way one does one's job? Outrageous! Never happens!
You do better when you're thoughtful then funny. When you go straight for funny bypassing thoughtful you're neither.
Yeah, they trend to be minimalists when it comes to potential benefits of proposed programs and maximalists as to the potential harms. In other words they seem very cautionary. I would want people like them managing my money on the downhill toward retirement but not on the uphill of wealth building.
Clearly the impact of the legislation they evaluate often reaches significantly into social realms.
Didn't you just describe conservatives, while asking if the office is liberal? I believe you answered your own question.
Was that a serious question? Yes. I wondered if people really think the CBO has predetermined outcomes. That's the claim of some in the news.
But it's not unreasonable to consider whether or not the CBO allows personal political views to affect their job. As I indicated I don't thinks that's the case. I think they are a worst-case-scenario bunch.
Not really......we just have a bunch of dumb republicans that had 7 years to craft a workable health care reform bill and failed miserably.
I'm not sure what point your making. You seemingly challenged me on the truth that people are questioning the CBO, then you agree with me that they do it all the time.
They were liberal with Obamacare estimates. However, they were using root data from the administration, only so much you could do with it.
I wasn't challenging you on the truth that people were questioning it, only in your lack of recognition that it's common ... especially with Trump and his team with anything they don't like to hear. Also in your questioning on whether or not they are left leaning just because they gave an answer you don't like to hear.
