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[Video] Mitt Romney Credits Jonathan Gruber For "Econometric Model" [Romneycare signing]
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Posted on 11/17/2014 12:58:13 PM PST by EternalVigilance

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21 posted on 11/17/2014 1:55:18 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Or, you could try simply doing the right thing and leaving the results to God.

It’s what our greatest President recommended.

“If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God.”

- George Washington


22 posted on 11/17/2014 1:56:46 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Obama grubered the Democrats. Romney grubered the GOP. Between them most of the country was grubered)
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To: dfwgator

Just think of all the major issues of Obama’s that we despise, and that Romney had embraced decades before him.

Abortion, gay Scout leaders, a homosexualized military.


23 posted on 11/17/2014 2:02:51 PM PST by ansel12 (The churlish behavior of Obama over the next two years is going to be spellbinding.)
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To: EternalVigilance

There goes Mittens slim chances for 2016. Good mittance. bye Bye....


24 posted on 11/17/2014 2:13:35 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7joL2fllT7c


25 posted on 11/17/2014 2:16:39 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: EternalVigilance

The progressives always run in packs, don’t they.

That is how they are pushing their agenda / have their alliances in place.

I don’t get how people can still support Romney as some kind of hero who was suppose to be anti to Obama.


26 posted on 11/17/2014 2:31:04 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: EternalVigilance
2012-01-09 Jonathan Gruber on Mitt Romney and Health Care Reform Youtube video 1:06:19

Mark Levin - "Mitt Romney Used Jonathan Gruber Before Obama - Sorry!" Youtube video 4:16

Former Romney aid (Gruber) says Mitt lying about ObamaCare Youtube video 1:19

HC mandate proponent and Obama stooge Jon Gruber, on Romney's flight from grace Youtube video 5:45 3/30/2011
(Romney supported mandate)

Prof. Jonathan Gruber Explains How He & Sen. Ted Kennedy Helped Implement 'Romney-Care' Youtube video 7:39 7/15/2014

ObamaCare Architect undermines ObamaCare foundation Youtube video 1:18

Published on Jul 25, 2014

Voters got to know Jonathan Gruber in 2012 when the Obama campaign put the health care policy wonk forward to shut down ObamaCare attacks from Republican nominee Mitt Romney. President Obama was so eager to play up Gruber’s role as a chief architect of ObamaCare because Gruber had been a chief architect of Romney’s state-level health law. Elevating Gruber allowed the campaign to deliver his lines with greater crack: “The core of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare and what we did in Massachusetts are identical," says Gruber in one campaign ad. While Gruber may have helped neuter Romney’s ObamaCare attacks, he may end up helping to neuter the law itself thanks to a video unearthed by free-market think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Gruber, an MIT professor who has become a Democratic health care talking head, also gets paid for talking to industry groups about ObamaCare. In one 2012 speech, Gruber talked about the provision in the law that has state governments administer enrollments, including subsidies. “I think what’s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits,” said Gruber, a MIT professor, in a speech two years ago. Why is that problematic? Because it directly contradicts what the administration argued in court about a lawsuit that could be “devastating” to ObamaCare because it would end the subsidies paid to enrollees in the states that did not voluntarily comply.

The preferred talking point for pro-administration groups has been to dismiss the subsidy gap as a clerical error, not an intentional policy. It goes like this: Congress meant to provide a way to work around non-compliant states, but didn’t get the wording right. It was, in the words of one administration insider deployed to knock down the court decision, a typo. And who was that insider? You guessed it: Jonathan Gruber. This matters not because it is an embarrassing deception for an academic to be caught in, but because it suggests the falsity of the administration’s claim that this was a glitch and not a feature. The administration was eager to highlight Gruber’s role in order to shame Romney, making it hard now to suggest that he was some peripheral figure. Whether this matters in the expected Supreme Court decision is a matter for the legal eagles to consider, but from a messaging point of view this is a Krakatoa-sized eruption.

The plan pretty plainly was to do on subsidies what the administration has tried to do on Medicaid expansion: pressure governors who do not comply and create talking points for Democratic candidates. It’s just that so many states refused to set up their own ObamaCare shops, including those with supportive governors. The rest of the actual glitches in the law and technology made even some liberal governors opt out and kick the can back to Washington. If the White House can’t argue publicly that this is some silly technicality it goes straight to the heart of the main problem with ObamaCare and voters: they don’t think it works.


27 posted on 11/17/2014 2:34:07 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Romney is Obama Jr.


28 posted on 11/17/2014 2:40:57 PM PST by CdMGuy
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To: TigersEye

Great post.


29 posted on 11/17/2014 3:44:45 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Obama grubered the Democrats. Romney grubered the GOP. Between them most of the country was grubered)
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To: CdMGuy

Or vice versa.


30 posted on 11/17/2014 3:45:15 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Obama grubered the Democrats. Romney grubered the GOP. Between them most of the country was grubered)
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To: EternalVigilance
Thank you. The GOPe may not want to hear all of
Gruber's videos but I think the guy has things to say.

Preferably in front of a Congressional hearing but for now these will do.

31 posted on 11/17/2014 3:50:35 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: ansel12

They are the people who openly declared war on the conservatives. They must be dealt with before we can defeat the Dems.


32 posted on 11/17/2014 4:10:08 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: EternalVigilance

bookmark


33 posted on 11/17/2014 4:31:04 PM PST by dadfly
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To: EternalVigilance
Same skill set, apparently.

LOL!! Spot on! {^)

34 posted on 11/17/2014 5:07:23 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny

:-)


35 posted on 11/17/2014 5:14:31 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Obama grubered the Democrats. Romney grubered the GOP. Between them most of the country was grubered)
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To: EternalVigilance

This does Mittens in.


36 posted on 11/17/2014 6:59:43 PM PST by SaraJohnson
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