Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former CBO Director (2003-2005) and spokesman most recently for John McCain on economic matters, has been making the rounds giving his opinion on various Obama initiatives. Here he is on NPR this morning passing judgment on Obama's budget.
I'm not sure why they consider him an authority. Here's what he had to say about all the fake numbers that used to come out of the Bush Administration:
"... I think the Bush administration's legacy of budgeting in ways that weren't exactly what we've seen in terms of what they actually wanted to do didn't fool anybody, so the notion that the transparency [on the part of Obama] itself will solve all the problems I think is misplaced."
"Didn't fool anybody"? So the fact that Bush's numbers were dishonest was no big deal because it "didn't fool anybody"? What kind of standard is that?
