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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
Why anyone believes them now is beyond me. But maybe congressional Republicans won't want to be burned again.
The government's top expert on Medicare costs was warned that he would be fired if he told key lawmakers about a series of Bush administration cost estimates that could have torpedoed congressional passage of the White House-backed Medicare prescription-drug plan.
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I love the Medicare office director's explanation for what he did too:
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"They were trying to be politically cute and get (Foster) to score (estimate the cost of the bill) and put something out publicly so they can walk out on the House floor and cause a political crisis, which is bogus," Scully said.
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I guess it's "politically cute" and "bogus" for Congress to request accurate estimates at any time before they've actually approved a massive federal entitlement program.
This guy kind of reminds me of Chalabi in a very vague way. He'll say anything to get the taxpayers to finance his program, and then will jump onto the other side of the equation and reap the benefits of the program once it's put into place.
