Spicer Attacks CBO

ModerateGOP said:

I admired him for taking the job no one else wanted, but since then he has become a clown, and we probably don't agree on why but he's turning into a spineless twit. At least with Boehner he didn't promise the moon, and then back out of it, he said, "Look I'm going to work with the other side whether you guys like it or not." Ryan just flat out, lies and claims these things he is doing are Conservative

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Fearandloathing said:

Donald Trump owns not one cent of Trump Tower, Vancouver, which just officially opened with his sons in attendance. He has, however, been or is being paid $50,000,000.00 for the use of his name.

The first reports have been positive, we are told the suites sold very well, mainly to offshore investors who will try to lease them. And there is where the **** hits the fan. The city and province are cracking down on off-shore ownership as they end up being full time B&B's.

None of the reviews mentioned the quality of the building, but went into detail about the "luxurious" fittings and fixtures. From the pictures it looks garish and rude, overdone, the kind of thing wealthy Chinese go in for.

It surely does stand out.

[video]http://www.bing.com/search?q=trump+tower+vancouver&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=trump+tower+vancouver&sc=9-21&sk=&cvid=61961C3ED525404FBAB3D7B9B786C012[/video]

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ModerateGOP said:

Yeah his buildings always looked kinda tacky to me as I've been inside Trump tower once for an interview there. I didn't expect his policies/politics to be much better.

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Buried on page 25 of the Republicans’ new rules (pdf) for the Koch-era Congress is a subsection with explicit instructions to the director of the CBO to perform a 10-year cost analysis of each bill reported by the House.

“The Director of the Congressional Budget Office shall, to the extent practicable, prepare an estimate of whether a bill or joint resolution reported by a committee (other than the Committee on Appropriations), or amendment thereto or conference report thereon, would cause, relative to current law, a net increase in direct spending in excess of $5,000,000,000 in any of the 4 consecutive 10 fiscal year periods beginning with the first fiscal year that is 10 fiscal years after the current fiscal year.”

There is really nothing new in those instructions except for one new Republican “limitation” that says:

“This subsection shall not apply to any bill or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or conference report thereon—

(A) repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and title I and subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010;

(B) reforming the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010.”

What that means in a little plainer language is that the new Republican rule “specifically instructs the CBO not to say how much it will cost taxpayers to repeal Obamacare.” The reason Republicans have officially prohibited the CBO from reporting how costly repealing the ACA (Obamacare) is because the last CBO “cost analysis of repealing Obamacare” (2015) found it would increase the deficit by $353 billion.

GOP Prohibits CBO From Reporting How Much ACA Repeal Blows Up the Deficit

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Winston said:

Preemptive defense because people are going to find out for conservatives they're not very fiscally conservative.


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Greenbeard said:

Sounds like that CBO score is going to be pretty damning. How unexpected!

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Chomsky said:

There's been reports that Trump doesn't want his name on this, and Spicer indicated the same today.

There's reasons why the guy that bolded insisted upon plastering his name across anything he could, doesn't want his name on his centerpiece legislation.

I predict before this is over, everyone involved will be running from it. Not because they're clueless in putting it together, but because they know what it does.

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