{"id":10247,"date":"2011-06-28T10:24:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T14:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=10247"},"modified":"2011-06-28T10:28:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T14:28:14","slug":"cbo-on-obama-budget-we-dont-estimate-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/10247\/cbo-on-obama-budget-we-dont-estimate-speeches\/","title":{"rendered":"CBO On Obama Budget:  &#8220;We Don&#8217;t Estimate Speeches&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, President Obama unveiled his irresponsible <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41575850\/ns\/politics-white_house\/\" target=\"_blank\">deficit-inflating 2012 proposed budget<\/a>.\u00a0 By April, Obama hastily said &#8220;never mind,&#8221; scrapped that proposal and offered a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forbes.com\/deanzarras\/2011\/04\/24\/obamas-budget-progressive-wrong-and-proud\/\" target=\"_blank\">vague Budget 2.0<\/a> speech after Congressman Paul Ryan (R &#8211; Wisconsin) embarrassed him by unveiling his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">debt-cutting budget roadmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that the so-called leader of the Free World was too afraid to offer any specificity whatsoever, focusing on his reelection instead of the nation&#8217;s intensifying fiscal emergency.\u00a0 At a House Budget Committee <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/blogs\/beltway-confidential\/2011\/06\/cbo-director-obama-budget-framework-we-dont-estimate-speeches\" target=\"_blank\">hearing last week<\/a>, Rep. Ryan asked Congressional Budget Office (CBO) chief Douglas Elmendorf whether the CBO had yet been able to estimate Obama&#8217;s latest &#8220;budget.&#8221;\u00a0 Elmendorf&#8217;s not-so-subtle reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We don&#8217;t estimate speeches.\u00a0 We need much more specificity than was provided in that speech for us to do our analysis.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Come to think of it, a lot of voters probably think back to the 2008 presidential campaign and say the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, President Obama unveiled his irresponsible deficit-inflating 2012 proposed budget.\u00a0 By April, Obama hastily said &#8220;never mind,&#8221; scrapped that proposal and offered a vague Budget 2.0 speech after Congressman Paul Ryan (R &#8211; Wisconsin) embarrassed him by unveiling his debt-cutting budget roadmap. The problem is that the so-called leader of the Free World was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,440,40,24,802],"class_list":["post-10247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-budget","tag-cbo","tag-congressional-budget-office","tag-obama","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10247\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}