POLITICS/HEALTH CARE REFORM/OTHER STUFF UPDATE:
Democrats yesterday touted the CBO numbers as to how great their bill (supposedly) is. But the CBO DIRECTOR then had THIS to say:
"Although CBO completed a preliminary review of legislative language prior to its release, the agency has not thoroughly examined the reconciliation proposal to verify its consistency with the previous draft. This estimate is therefore preliminary, pending a review of the language of the reconciliation proposal, as well as further review and refinement of the budgetary projections."
Translation: eventually, this bill will cost a whole lot more than $940 billion, and ain't gonna be no budget deficit reductions out of it...
As for President Obama's job approval numbers, they're not much better than the numbers for his health care bill. 3 recent polls...Fox, Gallup, and Rasmussen...and he's at 46, 46, and 45% approval. Remember early '09 when he was around 70%??? Those days are long gone...
NCAA TOURNEY UPDATE:
Wasn't that one of the greatest opening days of the NCAA Tournament ever? Tight games, buzzer-beaters, overtime games galore. My Irish unfortunately didn't survive. They just couldn't make shots. Congrats to Old Dominion, who deserve a lot of respect. Who picked Ohio to upset Georgetown? Not me. What will we see today? Stay tuned...
