Political Quotes

“I think he has documented simple declarative sentences, and it does not have to be this hard. It is very clear that we are on a path here to have a massive increase in the debt tax. We are, in fact, abandoning principles that some of our friends on the other side of the aisle have in the past at least given lip service to. I came over to the other side of the aisle this evening to see if it felt different somehow, if the numbers added up differently. They do not. I think, in fact, the information that the gentleman has gotten with his staff, and referring to accepted experts, institutes, independent analyses, suggests that even the situation that he documented a moment ago that was calculated according to the official rules that CBO has to follow actually disguises the true depth of the problem that is being created. I wonder if the gentleman has some information about what the people who are using the artificial rules that Congress has given to CBO, assuming some of these taxes are going to be expiring and never be renewed, I wonder if he has some information that independent analyses would offer up for what the long-term budget outlook is likely to be.”