This can't surprise you.  Infuriate?  Of course, but not surprise.  My tag line says it all.  The MSM is a full-time public relations firm for the DNC.  They are shameful and guilty treason in my humble opinion.

MSM = PR firm for the Democrat Party

No - the public does not have the right to know. Naturally, we know that was a rhetorical question.

Actually Noel, as I'd noted, the NY Times went to the well of support from the Congressional Budget Office some 7 times in the past 7 days. They missed the point we all need to hear, as you have pointed out; choosing instead, along the way, to cherry picked the agenda bits they wanted the public to hear:

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated the money would eventually save about $400 million by cutting unwanted pregnancies...

The Congressional Budget Office says the bill will enable states to cover more than four million uninsured children by 2013, while continuing coverage for ... 

The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that, over all, the Senate version of the stimulus package would provide a swifter boost to the economy, with a combined $694 billion in spending and tax breaks by October 2010, compared with $526 billion for the bill that the House approved. (gary note: guess they like Reid better than Pelosi on this day).

Pushing bi-partisanship on the part of the Democrats: Democrats Indicate Areas of Compromise on Stimulus

It would cover some 1.2 million people, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates, including both newly unemployed workers as well as those who ...

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the measure would provide coverage to 2.3 million women by 2014 and save $200 million ...

And of course, even Paul Krugman gets into the act -- "The Congressional Budget Office ... its director, nonetheless, recently warned that “absent a change in fiscal policy ... the shortfall in the nation’s output relative to potential levels will be the largest — in duration and depth — since the Depression of the 1930s." (Yikes) and then Krugman goes on to want more: "a number of economists, myself [Krugman] included, think the plan falls short and should be substantially bigger. But the Obama plan would certainly improve our odds. And that’s why the efforts of Republicans to make the plan smaller and less effective — to turn it into little more than another round of Bush-style tax cuts — are so destructive."

Oh my! (;~> gary

...the largest in recorded history, and the second massive power grab carried out by the socialists in the last six months.

Hell, the socialists even managed to scare George W. Bush in to signing the first power grab into law for them. What a coup that was.

The only thing this bill was designed to do, besides greasing some social-democrat supporting palms, is to so deplete the U.S. Treasury that future calls for tax cuts of any kind will be utterly impossible politically.

If this bill causes the economy to tank, then so much the better, as far as its authors see it.

After all, it was reckless, massive government spending such as this that helped turn the crash of 1929 into a full-blown depression. The authors of this bill are well aware of that fact.

The democrats then willingly promoted the erroneous perception that FDR and his "New Deal" is what got us out of the depression. As such, they were able to seize congress, and particularly the House of Representatives (the most powerful elected body in this nation) and maintained that power pretty much uninterrupted until 1994.

Never mind that the three people most responsible for getting this nation out of the Great Depression were named Hideki, Adolf and Benito. 

In 1996, after 12 years of wandering in the political wilderness, they managed to regain the congressional power they once enjoyed, and have no intention whatsoever of ever relinquishing it again.

All that is left for the socialists to complete their takover of this nation is to get control of our national healthcare system. Once they gain control of that, what little that will be left of the private sector won't last very long.

-Dave

Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.

Is this the state of journalism today? Are we destined for years of
omissions like this so that liberals in the media can aid and abet the
Democrats who now control Congress and the White House?...[   ]... What else is going to be withheld from us in the coming years?

Noel, you put my thoughts into better words than I could have.

How are we supposed to be a free people when the government ignores or downplays important information, and the media is complicit in it?

The media have gone from watchdogs to lapdogs. They are, as  Rush says, "willing accomplices" of the liberals.

They decide when "the American people have a right to know" and what we don't need to know.

We might as well have a government newspaper, like Pravda.

I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson

OK, on topic but not directly responding to the media ignoring the report.  Thinking about something here.....

Ok, so they want to "spend" $1 Trillion.  Our yearly budget is around $3 trillion.  So, one of the most powerful things that any Senator could do (and it would take a truly conservative one with cajones to not care that his fellow Senators would never speak to him again) would be to hype up a plan for a couple of days.  Say he's going to make a huge announcement at noon in 2 days, a major proposal that the American people are going to want in droves.....

....two days passes, he steps to the podium, explains that the current bill is nonsense and Socialism, that it grows government, etc etc.......and then he mentions our $3 trillion budget, and the $1 trillion Congress wants to spend, borrowing it to do so of course.

So, if we're going to drop $1 trillion and have to have committees and panels to make the money go where it needs to go, those are huge administrative costs on top of the $1 trillion.  Instead, he proposes this.......FOUR months......1/3 of a year, no American or American corporation will pay income, Social Security, or Medicare taxes.  And he tells Americans to look at their paycheck, and know that for the next 4 months, the amount they gross will be the amount they keep, and let everyone know that no other Congressman backs him, and for every American who wants their entire paycheck for the next 4 months, to get on the phone with their Congressman and let them know.

This would get OVERWHELMING public support.  Congressional phone lines would be jammed.  The Congressman who proposed it would never be spoken to again in the halls of Congress, because he would be removing everything that is wanted in this current crap bill - power!  If he were to push this on the airwaves properly, there would be an American uprising to make it happen.

Most of Congress would hate this.  People would actually pay attention to how much taxes they were paying (and will be again after 4 months), and this would be kryptonite to the politicians.

I swear, this would never happen.......why?  TOO SIMPLE!!  We're about get rammed with $1 trillion in spending........so why not $1 trillion in tax holiday instead?  Am I the only one that sees this?

All stimulus means is that we are going to bribe you to spend money that you aren't currently spending. The question is, why aren't you spending it? Until the stimulus package addresses and answers that question, no matter how much money you throw at the problem, nothing will stick.

As part of retaking Congress we must weed out those marginal senators
and representatives who compromise with the Democrat leadership. 
Comprise is nothing more than a sustained retreat from our principles
as a Party.  I say it is better to know who will not stand with us than
to be blind sided by so called moderates who are actually self serving
media hogs.  Whether you recognize it or not John McCain was the MSM's
useful idiot as they for years talked him up when he repeatedly went
against the GOP and then they paid him back when he ran for president -
he got little coverage while Obama got the lion's share.  It shouldn't
have come as a surprise Obama won.

For this reason I ask you to consider very strongly that any senator
who votes for the porkfest, they call a stimulus bill MUST be removed
from the GOP as David Duke was.  The GOP needs to make the point that if a $15,000 tax credit for buying a house is stimulus then they
should take that specific item as a bill and pass it quickly.  If the
Congress can quickly pass the Ledbetter Act, a union booster, then they
should have no problem with passing a house buying credit bill on it
own merits.  There is no need for negotiating on a massive bill where
you are trying to weed out pork when you can directly pass something
everyone can agree upon.  The point of the massive porkfest is to pass
as many liberal goodies as possible (which would never pass on its own
merits) and then take credit for it when the economy eventually does
recover.  Does it make strategic sense to allow the Dem Party to take
credit for pork????  Any GOP senator who can't see the time worn lib
tactic is just plain incompetent, and therefore a useful idiot to the
liberal cause.  It is time for the GOP to rid itself of these useful
idiots.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Old Kenyan proverb never use the truth when any lie will do! Never  trust a rookie when you need a warrior!How do you make a democrats head explode ask them to solve a problem in stead of starting another program or tax!