“…the budget office is required to take written legislation at face value and not second-guess the plausibility of what it is handed. So fantasy in, fantasy out.

In reality, if you strip out all the gimmicks and budgetary games and rework the calculus, a wholly different picture emerges: The health care reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562 billion.”

Insert tree falls in a forest here.  Except in this case, yes, we’ll know the tree fell because it will come down on our heads.

P.S. DHE War Room shout out.