Discussion: Former CBO Directors To Congressional Leaders: Back Off, We Have A Job To Do

[fiftygigs]

We write to express our strong objection to recent attacks on the integrity and professionalism of the agency

The Republican Party.

Committed to tearing America apart, so Russia can easily take over.

[opinionated1]

Congressional Republicans have sent draft bill after draft bill to the
CBO in recent weeks, though the resulting analyses have never shown
Republicans’ desired results of expanded care and lower prices.

That’s not true. The Republican leadership never “desired results of expanded care and lower prices.” They desired to bamboozle the public into believing their Wealth Care bill would provide expanded care and lower prices when it would do the opposite.

[sonsofares]

So, we have to ask: why is anyone in the State Department, FBI, CIA, CBO, Department of Justice still a Republican?

Your party hates you. They let you get called Nazis when they’re not the ones smearing you and your professionalism. They won’t help you. They won’t save you. They egg on the attacks. And, to top it off, they make incompetent scumbags your bosses to strangle your own areas of expertise.

Why are you still supporting them?

[rob_beatty_walters]

@sanni

It is foolish for Congress members to deride/discredit this work. It would be folly to pass legislation (as was the case prior to its creation) without trying to understand the positive and negative impacts of that legislation, in order to vet and improve said legislation prior to voting on it.

Unless you really don’t want people to know what the legislation will actually do. Republicans don’t want to govern. They only want to use the government as an ATM for themselves and their donors.

[sanni]

It is all about self enrichment, and endowing the treasury to the wealthy. It’s shameful.

[mames5]

THAT should be a bumper sticker. Well done!

[mames5]

Guess he forgot the Wyld Stallyns motto–“Be excellent to each other!”

[uneducated]

When you have no talent, no ability,to do your job you have to blame someone else for your total incompetence.

[arrrrrj]

I’d quibble with your reasonable assessment only to say that for the modern Republican Party (ie, since it became the all-but-wholly-owned subsidiary of modern movement conservatism), discrediting anyone who disputes/refutes their positions isn’t just a human reaction, even as gauged by your three qualifications; it’s been part of a deliberate political strategy – “liberal media” et al. – for decades. That makes it not just a difference in degree along the same continuum, but a genuine, malevolent difference in kind from liberals, or anyone else.
(@lancel)

[addicted4444]

That’s a really great point. Working the refs has indeed been a core part of GOP strategy.