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Guess Who Graham-Cassidy Hurts the Most? (Hint: It's Not the Rich)
You can almost always be completely certain that whatever policy proposals the Republicans come up with, they will hit the most vulnerable Americans the hardest. From social welfare to health care, the Republican answer to everything is less government, more private industry, ...read more
Angry Republicans Demand the Congressional Budget Office Start Using Republican Math
In the latest move by Republicans to erase reality, the House GOP is looking to cripple the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office because it keeps telling everyone how terrible Republican legislation is: Representative Mark Meadows, head of the conservative House Freedom ...read more
CBO: Trumpcare Is A Flaming Sh*t Show If You Have A Preexisting Condition
Earlier in the month, Trump and Republicans in the House threw themselves a party in the Rose Garden to celebrating passing an "abomination of a health care bill" that, if made into law, would fulfill Paul Ryan's college dream of starving the shit out of the sick and elderly to ...read more
Newt Gingrich's Crazed Attack On CBO Shows Conservative Movement Is Terminal
We already knew the conservative movement was in a lot of trouble but we're starting to get a clear picture of just how broken it is. Even before the Congressional Budget Office scored the Republican atrocity masquerading as a "healthcare" bill, the Trump administration was ...read more
Paul Krugman: Trump Is a Dictator in The Making
In response to the Trump administration's insistence that the recently released jobs numbers are "real" and not "phony" like they apparently were under the Obama administration, Paul Krugman let rip in his latest column, accusing Trump of having "totalitarian instincts" living ...read more
The All New GOP Lie About Obamacare, the CBO and Jobs
After last week's hilarious GOP disinformation campaign about the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) report on the economic impact of the Affordable Care Act, the Republicans have changed gears to an all new disinformation campaign about the report. To recap: the CBO report ...read more
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Digital Journalism is Destroying Accuracy for the Sake of Being Fast and First
This week marks two new low points in journalism. As we've reported over the last couple of days, they are, 1) Glenn Greenwald's effort to conflate malicious hackers with political activism via a leaked Snowden document, and 2) the broadly misreported analysis of the ...read more
CBO: Under Obama, Deficit Has Been Cut by $5.5 Billion
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From ThinkProgress: A new government report is predicting the budget deficit will drop below $1 trillion for the first time in President Barack Obama's tenure in office. The Congressional Budget Office analysis released Tuesday says the ...read more
CBO: GOP Health Care Repeal (H.R. 2) Would Increase Deficit $145 Billion
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has an analysis of the GOP's bill to repeal health care reform. In addition to the very real effect of re-introducing the preexisting condition and eliminating health care for children, the repeal (which will go nowhere and is a waste in time ...read more
Eric Cantor Accuses CBO Of Being Dishonest, Previously Cited CBO
Eric Cantor just accused the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) of producing dishonest data, despite the office's long track record of running the numbers. Numbers, in fact, that were apparently just fine and dandy for one Eric Cantor to cite a while back in order to try and ...read more