Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) is getting a strong whiff off the pungent, piping hot Republican Tea being served up fresh by the golden (bronze? orange?) oldies in the House and calling the crazy like it is.
On Thursday, newly-minted old House Speaker, weeper and giant gavel fetishist, John Boehner (R-Ohio) came out and said in response to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's estimate that repealing health care would add $1.5 trillian to the estimate this: "CBO is entitled to their opinion, but they're locked within constraints of the 1974 Budget Act" (source)
Welch responded in a statement to the Huffington Post: "It's incredibly ominous that they are waving away the CBO opinion. That's catastrophic for any opportunity to maintain budget discipline. If anybody can make up their own numbers, you literally institutionalize an 'Alice In Wonderland' budget process. It is beyond reckless and irresponsible."
"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
"I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone: "so I ca'n't take more."
"You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter. "It's very easy to take more than nothing."
~TO
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