February 6, 2014
The CBO Gets It Wrong
So much has been made of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) assessment of ObamaCare and its adverse impact on employment and the resulting "Hey! Look a bunny!" responses from the White House and other brain-impaired Democrats, that I fear that saying the CBO is wrong about their assessment will be taken as another Democrat talking point. Or if you prefer, lie.
On the contrary, what the CBO has indicated is accurate -- up to a point. But only up to a point. But accurate doesn't always mean correct. During the State of the Union speech, our president announced that domestically produced oil has, during his tenure, finally exceeded the amount of imported oil. And so it has. It was an accurate statement, but again, only up to a point. The fact that all that oil was produced on land over which Barack Obama could not exert any control was overlooked. So Obama's insinuation that he was due credit for this achievement makes his statement accurate, but clearly a lie.
The fact is that...(Read Full Post)