Posted on 11/13/2014 4:03:56 PM PST by Lorianne
Far more troubling, however, is the lack of disclosure on the part of the White House, the Senate, the DNC and other Democratic leaders who distributed Gruber’s work and cited it as independent validation of their proposals, orchestrating the appearance of broad consensus when in fact it was all part of the same effort.
The White House is placing a giant collective bet on Gruber’s “assumptions” to justify key portions of the Senate bill, 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, 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 for his testimony. 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.
White House blogger Jesse Lee then promoted both Gruber’s Senate testimony and Ezra Klein’s article on the White House blog. “We thought it would all be a little more open and transparent if we went ahead and published what our focus will be for the day” he said, pointing to Gruber’s “objective analysis.” The “transparent” part apparently stopped when everyone got to Gruber’s contractual relationship to the White House, which nobody in the three-hit triangle bothered to disclose.
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They used the same old progressive tactics that were developed in the Wilsonian progressive era.
Same way they shoved the ponzi scheme of Soc Sec down our throats.
Thats why we have a news media - to uncover official sleight of hand and inform the population.
Sadly, the news media isn't into news anymore.
what do they call it when things from two different eras are juxtaposed? anachronism?
The dead giveaway is the printed signs.
When we marched on DC in 2009 and 2010, we made our own signs.
It took a few days but the local paper finally admitted it when photos of them getting off the charter buses emerged.
So bus-ted!
Barry is doing the same thing now with his trying to ram through “Net Neutrality.” He appointed a Comcast lobbyist to head the FCC, Tom Wheeler, who has orchestrated a crisis custom made for Barry to take over the internet. If successful it’s just a matter of time before free speech on the internet is regulated by bureaucrats.
noun: anachronism · plural noun: anachronisms
1.a thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned:
"everything was as it would have appeared in centuries past apart from one anachronism, a bright yellow construction crane"
2.an act of attributing a custom, event, or object to a period to which it does not belong.
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(So you WERE correct!!! Nice job!!)
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