Sen. Thune just lied on MSNBC and the novice host let it go.

[Ilsa]

He said the CBO report said it would take 12-24 months for the stimulus to work. My understanding is that there is no current report.

I apologize if I was wrong about Thune, but I doubt it.

[ananda]

1. You're not wrong.

nt

[babylonsister]

2. There is a report, but it only came out yesterday...

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_01/016620.php

AN ACTUAL CBO REPORT ON STIMULUS.... The report from the Congressional Budget Office, purportedly showing that the Democrats' stimulus proposal would be ineffective, did not actually exist. A more reliable document really was released by the CBO late yesterday, however, and the results are far more encouraging. Indeed, the CBO found that implementing the stimulus plan "would have a noticeable impact on economic growth and employment in the next few years."

more...

I guess Thune must have missed the 'real' report instead of the one the rethugs made up out of thin air...

[blm]

3. send an email noting the lie to the show

.

[lpbk2713]

4. About a year ago ...

he was probably one of the rethuglican chorus singing
about how great the BushCo economy was at the time.

[LSK]

5. there is a CBO report out there that only analyzed part of the bill, not the whole thing

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/26/report-cbo-tv/

As the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim and the American Prospect’s Tim Fernholz reported last Friday, the CBO report being touted by conservatives and the media isn’t an actual report. “We did not issue any report, any analysis or any study,” a CBO aide told the Huffington Post.

Instead, the CBO “ran a small portion of an earlier version of the stimulus plan through a computer program that uses a standard formula” to determine how quickly money will be spent. As Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Scott Lily notes, even that CBO analysis is based “almost entirely on a review of historical data on program performance,” which likely applies “less during an economic crisis like the one we currently face.” OMB Director Peter Orszag says that 75 percent of the stimulus plan “will be spent over the next year and a half.”

The CBO is working on a full analysis of the plan to be released shortly.

[tom_paine]

6. Only Nazis are as audacious in their shameless lies as Bushies.

These Nazi-Bushies never stop, in accordance with the dictums of their propagandistic founder, Joseph Goebbels.