To understand the machinations behind Monday’s health care announcements, imagine an unhappy young couple trying to cut corners, all the while chaperoned by well-meaning, buttinsky aunts who keep bumping into one another.wer owero iwpeori poweirpo weirwepor iwpeori
House and Senate Democrats are the distrustful couple; the Congressional Budget Office and Senate parliamentarian the two strait-laced aunts with conflicting advice on the do’s and don’ts that lie ahead.
And as the House Budget Committee kicked off the process Monday afternoon, the rampant confusion is a lesson in the fact that cutting corners is never a good start in Congress.
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