Posted on 11/14/2014 1:38:28 PM PST by Kaslin
If you’ve followed the news in the last few days, you’ve likely heard of Jonathan Gruber. If you haven’t, you should. He “helped write” ObamaCare and was paid handsomely for it--$400,000 to be “a paid consultant to the Obama administration to help develop the technical details as well.” That’s according to Gruber himself.
So why is he in the news? Because he’s been caught on tape multiple times calling Americans “stupid” and saying that taking advantage of voters’ “stupidity” was key to getting ObamaCare passed.
Here’s what he said in November 2013: “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get anything to pass.”
During an event the month before, he was discussing taxes on insurance companies and subsidies when he declared that “the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.”
In 2012, while speaking at the University of Rhode Island on the “Cadillac plan tax” in ObamaCare, he said, “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.”
By now, of course, most Americans recognize that ObamaCare was sold on a lie. Plans have been cancelled. Doctors have been cut from networks. Prices have gone up. But never before had we seen an architect of ObamaCare ridiculing the American people and bragging that Democrats forced this legislation on the country by exploiting our “stupidity.”
Some in the liberal media are trying to cover for the administration by saying that it’s only conservatives who are upset about this. All Americans should be incensed. President Obama, the Democrats, the White House—they all deliberately lied to the “stupid” American people, and as Jonathan Gruber has made clear, they are quite proud of it. This is far worse than Nancy Pelosi’s infamous comment that we had to “pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it.”
Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, she was asked this week about Gruber’s comments. “I don't know who he is. He didn’t help write our bill,” she insisted.
That’s a lie. First, in 2009, she was encouraging people to read Jonathan Gruber’s analysis of ObamaCare. There’s video. Second, Gruber himself said he “helped write the federal bill.” Yes, there’s video of that too.
So, Nancy Pelosi must think you’re really stupid.
What’s interesting is that conservatives were not stupid. They didn’t support O’Care, and their Republican leaders did not vote for it. The stupid people were the Democrat voters and politicians in both house, who were duped.
They both are dumber than a box of rocks.
And it’s Nancy Pelosi’s voting block that are the dumbest turds west of the Atlantic.
Conservatives knew what this was about,
but because we were “attacking” the sheeperals’ sense of self-righteousness by telling the truth about it,
we’re “evil”, and have to be silenced by calling us names.
Roger that. 08 & 2012 proved that for us. ;-)
The only interesting thing about any of this is that they were admitting in the smokey back rooms during the Obamacare debate that we were right.
....plus the other tapes telling the world that only IDIOTS would vote for Obamacare ONLY IF THEY DIDN'T WHAT WAS IN IT...AMERICANS CAN BE EASILY FOOLED; THEY'RE SO STUPID! with Obama's blessing. Pelosi, Reid, Ms. Obama, Valerie Jarrett etc. they all lied and sooooo many Americans believed in BHO just as sooooo many people believed in the evil Hitler. Follow the money if you can......
It was actually worse than we thought and 0bama, Reid and Pelozi et al knew it.
Obamacare - the lie of the land...
Only one lie, but arguably the most famous one now.
Looks like a slow motion collapse is taking place
And Pelosi wonders why reporters ask HER if she is too old.
A Pelosi by any other name would reek of stupidity.
Ironically, Pelosi is the dumbest creature on earth. I think Trayvon’s girlfriend who can’t read cursive is much more intelligent than spasmodic nancy.
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