Remember this is the guy who took over "Duke" Cunniscam's seat.

gets in a suggestion for Medicare for all. Sounds good to me. Moran nixes it.

Hey, Moran, Medicare for all would eventually SAVE money ya idiot.

Did I tell you that Republicans are irrelevant.

rubber stamper put in office by a bunch of rich, closed minded, self interested republican donors who got (stay) rich by profiteering off the Bush wars and relying on the hope that no one is paying attention to their bullshit.

WRONG!

He's truly the model of the republican party. He represents his constituency well.

My thanks to Huffpo and others who vetted this ignoramus and his cohorts over their blatant lies.

Unless we change the underlying structure of the economy, the stimulus will only kick the ball down the road.

(1.) Health care - As President Clinton said on Letterman, we spend 16% on health care, while our competitors in Japan and Europe spend 11%, they cover everybody, while we leave 16% of our people without coverage. Unless we establish a health care system that matches or betters our competition, our economy won't be competitive.

(2.) Free Trade - Ross Perot ran on the campaign that the signing of Free Trade agreements would lead to the “giant sucking sound” of American job losses. The sucking sound was masked first by the Nasdaq bubble, and then by the real estate bubble, but is prominently present now. Adherents of free trade proclaim that trade deficits come back to America as investments in stock equity. While that is so, the strategy has the same merits as a reverse mortgage. Reverse mortgages are only appropriate when one is near the end of life expectancy.

(3.) War on Drugs - We spend $48B federally on the war on drugs. Meanwhile, Afghanistan's number 1 export is heroin. What if we say, if, you are addicted to heroin, then, you can see the doctor for your maintenance prescription? Forget about seeing the dealer that got you addicted in the first place. Then, that eliminates the motivation of the dealers to addict new users. It would reduce gun violence. However, our heroin distribution has been traditionally handled by certain organized crime syndicates, so this aspect of funding to al-Qaeda and the Taliban has been off the table so far. A similar approach needs to be taken to crack cocaine, and then the gun violence would be reduced about 70% in the cities. Drug addition needs to be classified as a medical problem, not a crime problem, and, I suspect, greater than $48B would be saved.

(4.) Less I forget, we don't need to be spending greater that 50% of the world's expenditures on the military. While advocates of military spending will say that military spending will stimulate the economy, any domestic spending will do that; what we need is spending that will make our economy more competitive. Meanwhile, we need to pursue more alliances in the world, to share in the military spending. For example, if there is a need to have an Anti-ballistic missile system in Poland to protect Europe, then let Europe finance and pay for it. We need to end the costs of America, the world's policeman.

So long as the underlying fundamentals aren't addressed, we're kicking the ball down the road. Instead of dealing with these issue now, we'll have to address these issue later. I'm especially struck by the proclamation that a dollar spent in unemployment yields a benefit of $176, and a dollar spent in food stamps yields $1.64. The problem with Keynesian economics is that it assumes that the manufacture occurs in the same country. Under the current scenario, we're as likely to stimulate the economy of China as much, if not more, than our own. We're not going to cure what ails us, until what we consume in America is made in America. Everybody intuitively knew that if we drove the American labor force in competition with $1/hour labor, that it would drive the standard of living down in this country. While it was temporarily masked by a Nasdaq bubble, and later on, by a real estate bubble, the policy is rearing its ugly head now.

Whether there was or wasn't a report depends on whether you use a Webster's Dictionary definition or the CBO definition. The CBO uses a very narrow and internal definition, by which the document they produced does not qualify. But to someone who is merely using the English language, that document was a report, and it did come from the CBO. It was flawed. It was limited. But it was a report.