Susan Rice is also a Brookings Institute alumnus.
Strobe Talbot served as Deputy Secretary of State from 1994 to 2001 during the Clinton Administration.
Gruber worked in the Treasury Dept. in 1997,1998.
These guys know how to get paid, that’s for sure. Of course, that IS the name of the game.
Please quit placing articles in the Activism sidebar.
Whoa! Firedoglake? Even the lefties are piling on!
I think the statements in which Gruber has admitted that Obama was in the meeting at the White House (Executive branch and cabinet members were participant) to lie to get the bill to be accepted by Congress, should be the smoking gun to tie Obama’s part to conspiracy to commit fraud against the American people. If that’s not high crimes, I don’t know what is.
Is that site becoming conservative?
Does this sound like Gruber was a bit player?
Gruber and then Senator Obama were also at the launch of the Hamilton Project on April 5, 2006. The Hamilton Project is a think tank within a think tank—the liberal Brookings Institution. Named after Alexander Hamilton, (whose dictum “The People is a Great Beast" seems especially appropriate after Gruber dissed the "stupid" American people,) the Project boasts multiple ties to the Obama government. Peter Orszag, Austan Goolsbee, Robert Rubin, Reverend Jim Wallis and Center for American Progress' Robert Gordon all participated at the opening conference. Orszag, who would later become Obama's Budget Director, introduced the Senator as "a son of an economist." Senator Obama gave an eight-minute speech to Wall Street big shots on restoring America’s promise of opportunity, prosperity and growth.(see video)
Gruber went on to participate in future Hamilton Project roundtables with such notables as Ezekial Emanuel, Robert Rubin and Jason Furman, who later served as Obama's chief economic adviser in his presidential campaign. According to the New York Times, Gruber got the official call to help the administration work on the basic principles of Obamacare in 2008. The White House then " lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation." Gruber frequently spoke with reporters and wrote opinion pieces supporting the Affordable Care Act but did not mention his role in helping to devise it, he “regretted not being more upfront,” he said. “But the thing is, I know more about this law than any other economist.” http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/11/is_obamas_healthcare_man_jonathan_gruber_just_another_guy_in_the_neighborhood.html ______________________________________________________
When Gruber speaks the gaydar meter pegs.
If yours doesn’t....its broke.