Posted on 11/22/2014 5:49:20 AM PST by rellimpank
I understand we've turned the page to the next controversy -- Obama's unconstitutional immigration pander -- but I'd like to dwell a little longer on the previous travesty.
Obama administration health care consultant Jonathan Gruber was discovered to have boasted that Obamacare was designed to exploit the "stupidity" of American voters and elude honest accounting by hiding both its cost and the taxes necessary to pay for it.
When asked about this in Brisbane, Australia, the president rolled his eyes at the controversy.
"I just heard about this," President Barack Obama said. "… The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with … is no reflection on the actual process that was run."
"We had a year-long debate," Obama exasperatedly continued. "Go look back at your stories. One thing we can't say is that we didn't have a lengthy debate over health care in the United States. … It's fair to say there is not a provision in the health-care law that was not extensively debated and was not fully transparent."
This statement is a falsehood, punctuated by deceits, supported by half-truths, in defense of a scam.
Let's give Obama the benefit of the doubt that he had "just heard about this." After all, he doesn't hear about a lot of terrible things he's ultimately responsible for -- the IRS scandal, mismanagement at Veterans Affairs, etc. -- until they appear, often tardily, in the newspapers.
The fact that Gruber was not a staffer is a small truth in service of a bigger lie. Gruber was far more indispensible than any staffer. Nearly every news outlet referred to the man as an "architect" of Obamacare. (Many of those outlets are now scrambling to unsay what they said.)
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Everything this Marxist administration does exploits the stupidity of the American public and the cowardice of the congress.
Well said.
Gruber needs another “b” in his last name to be accurate.
Here, lefties.
Understand this: YOU DONT KNOW BETTER HOW TO RUN OUR LIVES THAN WE DO.
AND WE’LL FIGHT YOU IF YOU TRY.
End of message.
“One thing we can’t say is that we didn’t have a lengthy debate over health care in the United States.” ????
NEWS FLASH: They’re already running most aspects of our lives!
What did Tom Jefferson say abount the Tree of Liberty? Have we forgotten the words of the Patriots of old?
History repeats itself.
Goldberg does know how to turn a phrase.
Everything about this administration is a lie.
They’re throwing Jonathan Gruber under the bus the way the Blue Jays did Kelly Gruber.
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