Posted on 11/12/2014 7:06:01 PM PST by Kaslin
A fine idea. Democrats will whine that the new GOP is the same as the old GOP, obsessed as ever with revisiting old ObamaCare business, but that message can and will be countered by sending a few splashy bills to Obama’s desk, starting with Keystone.
Good things happen for conservatives when the subject of O-Care comes up and Jon Gruber’s piehole is anywhere near a microphone. Let’s sit him down in front of one on Capitol Hill, with live coverage on the cable networks, and go over in detail just how stupid the architect of Obama’s giant health-care boondoggle thinks American voters are.
“We may want to have hearings on this,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview at the Capitol. “We shouldn’t be surprised they were misleading us.”…
Jordan said House Republicans have been sending each other a blizzard of e-mails and text messages this week, and he expects the interest in “bringing [Gruber] up here to talk” will gain traction as members return to Washington. House Republicans will gather Thursday evening for their first series of votes since the election…
Elsewhere in the Capitol, House GOP leadership aides expressed new optimism that their desire to target the ACA could get some momentum. While rhetorically committed to full repeal, in order to keep the party’s right flank on board, the party is looking more seriously at undermining specific parts of the law as it navigates divided government next year. Those moves could include repealing the medical device tax; watering down a requirement that employers offer full time workers coverage, which takes effect in January; and changing the definition of a full-time worker from someone who works at least 30 hours a week to someone who works at least 40 — all proposals which could win some Democratic support.
Lots of benefits to doing this. For starters, as noted in the excerpt, it’s a boost to Republicans in chipping off the least popular parts of ObamaCare. If Joe Manchin and the rest of the rump Democratic caucus thought it’d be hard to resist voting with the GOP before, imagine how hard it’ll be after a day or two of Jon Gruber’s greatest hits in front of a House committee. Politically, it’s potentially helpful too to Bill Cassidy in knocking off Mary Landrieu in next month’s Louisiana runoff. Obviously the House would need to move quickly if they want Gruber to testify before the state votes, but it’s worth their while in this case. Landrieu was, after all, the 60th vote for ObamaCare, just as all Senate Democrats were. Let’s give Louisianans a snoutful of the contempt they’re held in by Obama and his progressive cronies. In fact, see if you can guess who said this: “The core problem under the damn law is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people. That’s what the problem is.” Ted Cruz? Nope: Howard Dean. If even Dean-o’s that angry about Gruber’s comments, they’re a potent weapon against Landrieu.
Most importantly, dragging Gruber before Congress to explain how the White House gamed CBO and the public to sell O-Care will also give the GOP a chance to revisit his “speak-o” comments, in which he admitted during the drafting of the law — more than once — that federal subsidies for new ObamaCare enrollees should be limited to consumers using state exchanges, not the federal exchange. That’s the point of contention in the Halbig case that was just accepted for review by the Supreme Court. Since we’re destined to have a left/right war for public opinion over that anyway as oral arguments get closer, with liberals mumbling endlessly that the ambiguous language in the statute was just a “typo,” we might as well start early by calling our star witness — the one and only Jon Gruber. Who knows? Maybe John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy are on the fence about Halbig and sympathetic to the typo argument. Let ol’ piehole set them straight on live television.
If you can believe it, the Daily Caller has a third video of this tool sneering at the ignorance of an electorate that twice elected Obama, this time over O-Care’s “Cadillac tax.” Quote: “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” The guy who dug it up isn’t a reporter but rather an investment advisor who does this in his spare time as a public service, knowing that big media isn’t the least bit interested in exposing the ruses used to pass ObamaCare.
Krauthammer rips Jonathan Gruber: "We're hearing the true voice of liberal arrogance"
Ya think???
Did Gruber testify before Congress on the run up to the bill passing?
Why is the first reaction “to hold hearings”?
Yes, it may be the “proper” thing to do.
What would they show or prove that the tape itself does not show or prove?
Just play the tape 5,000 times and constantly refer to it and constantly ask if any new legislation (big joke) the admin proposes is as well based on lies and thinking the American people are too dumb to know what’s good for them.
Fight meme with meme.
House hearings for that but not the NSA’s domestic espionage?
Hey, he “apologized” for all least one of the times he called Obama supporters STUPID and since Barry’s state controlled “media” isn’t covering this, I guess they agree. Obama supporters, including his “media”, agree. They are stupid and they know it.
Skip that and charge him with felony fraud. The guy has already admitted what he did.
Deemed passed and new codified by Roberts.
So much bluster and ain’t nothing gonna happen.
Instead of hearings the GOP, if they knew what being politically savvy was, should be using excerpts of Gruber’s remarks and putting them on commercials all over the country. Spend tens of millions of dollars and advertise them on network TV so the low info idiots can hear it for themselves. We all know the alphabet channels will give little or no coverage of what Gruber said. Another congressional hearing. Sorry, if it’s run by the GOP it’s going nowhere as long as Speaker Crybaby and Majority Leader McWorthless are in charge. It’s time to go for the jugular of these liberals. They’re destroying the country and yet the GOPe wants to get along with these fools.
You and I think alike.
Joe Wilson’s well placed “you lie” lookin’ real solid right about now.
The media is the country’s number one threat, and has been for some time.
“We may want to hold hearings on this.” ???? May ??? Go for it! If roles were reversed and a Republican was president with a bunch of lying scallywags the Democrats would turn into vicious pit bulls. Time to get tough Republicans.
You know I advocate the same thing on Amnesty. Spend 10-20 million targeting city minorities telling them if Nero grants amnesty the illegals will take all your jobs and their spawn will use up all the social monies. No more Obama phones, It be free cards or increases in money for more babies.
Then watch them turn on him.
Friend, this should be common sense for Republican operatives. The RNC has a huge war chest. They should start using it. Remember when Bush 43 was selling his tax cuts back in 2001? What did he do? He and the RNC ran commercials with snippets of JFK touting his tax cut plans back in the early 1960’s. The Democrats melted down all over the place but it got the job done. Gruber handed our side a pot of gold. His words should be echoed all over the country in commercials. As Rush would say this should be a slam dunk. If I were Rance Priebus the Madison Avenue boys are getting phone calls from me and a pot full of money to cut some devastating TV spots to stick it right in the Democratic Party’s eyes! Fed up with this wimpiness that comes from the Republicans. Stop being Neville Chamberlain-like and start throwing some haymakers at the people destroying the country!
Yep.
Friend, you’re so right. The average American doesn’t watch C-SPAN let alone the nightly news on the alphabet networks. It won’t matter if they nail Dr. Gruber during testimony in a congressional hearing because nobody is going to see it. We have short attention spans in this country and let’s face it there is a large uninformed population. Cutting some slick commercials and posting them on the alphabet networks, HBO, Showtime, and on national,regional, and local radio stations is the only way you’ll reach a wider audience. The Democrats know that. They know PR way better than our side does. It’s frustrating when you know that we are right on the issues but yet we have no clue on how to get the word out!
We know he was not referring to Republicans since the were never fooled. We know he was not referring to the low income Democrats since they actually would be getting something for nothing.
He was mostly referring to white collar liberals such as adjunct professors that got moved to part time and he was referring to free-lance journalists that were paying for their own insurance and wanted to keep it.
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