MEGAN MCARDLE: THE UNKINDEST CUT. “Proponents of reform have been acting as if the fact that various Democrat plans have been scored by the Congressional Budget Office as ‘deficit neutral’ somehow means that they couldn’t possibly be worse than the status quo. This is extraordinarily wishful thinking.”
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Fox News contributor Sarah Palin falsely suggested in a January 28 Facebook post that Democrats' health care reform plans would increase the deficit and that President Obama has not cut taxes. In fact, the Congressional Budget Offic... Read Post
MEGAN MCARDLE: Process of passing health care a debacle. “Congressional Democrats started out with a CBO score they wanted, and worked backward to the bill. They’ve been pretty explicit about the fact that no one wants this actual b... Read Post
MEGAN MCARDLE: “I don’t need to tell you what I think of the budget: it’s disastrous.... For all that I keep hearing about deficit reduction and PAYGO rules, somehow those “fiscally responsible” Democrats have given us the largest p... Read Post