"When we've lost the Huffington Post, we've lost the moonbats".
Posted on 01/13/2010 5:37:18 PM PST by Starman417
It's hard to believe that I would actually link to a Jane Hamsher article at the Huffington Post without reveling in its stupidity but this article is quite good, well researched, and doesn't pull any biased punches. When Obama is pissing off the far left, things are baaaad.
Here we got the tale of Jonathan Gruber, a MIT genius or something, who was paid close to 400 thousand dollars to do an analysis of ObamaCare....and the White House used that analysis to sale the bill without disclosing the relationship:
The White House is placing a giant collective bet on Gruber's "assumptions" to justify key portions of the Senate bill such as the "Cadillac tax," which they allowed people to believe was independent verification. Now that we know that Gruber's work was not that of an independent analyst but rather work performed as a contractor to the White House and paid for by taxpayers, and economists like Larry Mishel are raising serious questions about its validity, it should be made publicly available so others can judge its merits.Gruber began negotiating a sole-source contract with the Department of Health and Human Services in February of 2009, for which he was ultimately paid $392,600. The contract called for Gruber to use his statistical model for evaluating alternatives "derived from the President's health reform proposal." It was not a research grant, but rather a consulting contract to advise the White House Office of Health Reform, headed by Obama's health care czar Nancy-Ann DeParle, to "develop proposals" for health care reform.
How did the feedback loop work? Well, take Gruber's appearance before the Senate HELP Committee on November 2, 2009, for which he used his microsimulation model to make calculations about small business insurance coverage. On the same day, Gruber released an analysis of the House health care bill, which he sent to Ezra Klein of the Washington Post. Ezra published an excerpt
Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Great. Can’t wait to see them start melting as their President swirls down the toilet further & further.
Gruber has to be monumentally, spectacularly corrupt and hypocritical if even the Huffington Post noticed and wrote about it.
This sounds exactly like the kind of sleaze Ubama would try to pull off.
That Ubama is one slimy turd. Wow.
As we like to say....keep diggin, deeper...deeper...deeper
“The contract called for Gruber to use his statistical model for evaluating alternatives “derived from the President’s health reform proposal.””
Now wait a minnit....
I’m certain someone will enlighten me if I am wrong, but the President has never put forth ANY health care proposal of his own. The only thing we have been dealing with is what we know about the House bill that was passed before the Representatives got their asses reamed during Summer recess, and what little we know that has been leaked out of Dusty Harry’s lair since.
If anyone has a link to Obama’s healthcare plan, I’d like to see it.
Maybe I am in the minority, but I love “McGruber”. He almost always removes the detonator before the bomb goes off.
Hamsher says she opposes the bill, now she decries the administration’s paid propagandist for it..but she’s not supporting Scott Brown who can kill the bill, is she?
Ha! And welcome to FR!
This is the most corrupt administration ever.
Maybe Huffinton is trying to morph herself back into a Republican. LOL /s
The statistics on this are settled.
Nine out of ten statisticians being paid by the government agree that the government is right. How can you argue with that.
You aren’t some kind of Health Care Reform Denier, are you?
He got a sole source bid for nearly 400K? That’s pretty sketchy. He must be in the friends and family program.
Nah... they just knew what answer he would come up with...:^)
"When we've lost the Huffington Post, we've lost the moonbats".
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