Jonah Goldberg Dismisses CBO Scoring Of Health Bill As The Work Of "Green Eye Shade Guys With Pocket Protectors"
January 06, 2011 8:00 pm ET
From the January 6 edition of Fox News Channel's Special Report:
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It sucks. Equally for both parties. They can only deal with the information provided to them. For example:
"Hello, My name is 'Bill'. I am here to provide information to you, the CBO, as to how to make delicious breakfast sausage! I have enclosed the entire list of ingredients, and they are:"
(They will result in the aforementioned delicious breakfast sausage, of course!)
Sage: 30 grams,finely chopped
Ginger: 50 grams, peeled and chopped
Kosher Salt: 40 grams
Pepper: 6 grams, black or white, freshly ground
Garlic: 18 grams, minced
Ice water: 250 ml
Fat: 450 grams pork, back
Combine ingredients, blah, blah, blah…
Now, any of you sausage makers may notice that the most important ingredient is missing.
But, the CBO can ONLY work with the information it is provided. So, according to this information, it looks like a pretty good recipe, right? So, they score it favorably!!!
My point being is that the CBO reports are nothing but a result of the info they are provided with. THAT IS ALL. (GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT.)
This is, by the way, a delicious breakfast sausage recipe. ALL YOU HAVE TO ADD IS 5 POUNDS OF PORK SHOULDER.
Do any of you get my point? I hope so.
Steve
Geez. I knew that anti-intellectualism had a deep furrow in rightwing politics, but it's brazenly on display here tonight.
Everyone knows that right-wing ideologues are much more reliable when it comes to scoring a bill than those geeky non-partisan accountant types.
In all seriousness, why do lying morons like Jonah Goldberg get a forum on TV for their idiocy?
"If you take the deficit thing out for a second; no one disputes that it is going to cost a lot more in spending and ..in taxes."
Sure. Just ignore deficit reduction projections.
So would he make the same flawed argument to oppose a government funded infrastructure project?
"If you take the economic stimulus thing out for a second; no one disputes that it is going to cost a lot more in spending and ..in taxes."
"If you take the job creation thing out for a second; no one disputes that it is going to cost a lot more in spending and ..in taxes."
Jonah. This is why we hire experts with pocket protectors to crunch numbers instead of partisan prognosticators like you.
What the hell is this idiot talking about? Does he even know that those 30 million people are going to get private insurance and not govt insurance? Why? Because the public option does not exist and will not exist!
There is no FREAKING HEALTH CARE ROLLS to go on let alone ADDED TO THE HEALTHCARE ROLLS!!!!!!
I know, although I never had a pocket protector or a slide rule (remember them?) belt holster.
Nevertheless, I guess I am a spiritual soulmate, albeit on a more micro-level. Glory in nerdiness.
Jonah Goldberg is another one whose credentials for speaking authoritatively on everything under the sun mystify me. I'll confess to the guilty pleasure of buying the Post, mostly for its sports section, partly in order just to be irritated as I start the day. His musings in that paper invariably accomplish the latter.
This is a man who has literally never done anything productive. Nothing. Yet he is so...entitled. It is to me amazing.
Get a real job, Jonah. Accomplish something. Then come back, and I'll be willing to talk.
Good Luck Dark-Rimmed Guy with No Real Abilities.
Those Americans you tried to put down are people. AHOLE
ALL Reported "facts" viewed within the realm of RIGHTWING orthodoxy are False, when after mentally overlaying an ideological template there is not a match.
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Example; the just published CBO (Congressional Budget Office) report that said, upending Health Care Reform will ADD between $145 to $230 billion dollars to the NATIONAL DEBT over ten years IS FALSE according to Right Wing orthodoxy. Why, because politically these Right Wingers viscerally DISAGREE with mandatory health care as a premise rendering out of hand ALL succeeding reports, facts, numbers, or assertions as patently FALSE.
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(The NUMBER'S are FALSE, if a mandatory health care premise is FALSE, and the premise is FALSE since it does NOT align with the ideological template.)