All of #GruberGate, Explained in 2 minutes

Our own Ben Howe made this video for the folks at American Commitment that explains the entire #GruberGate kerfuffle in 2 minutes. The video is damning and really explains what ought to be page A1 material on every newspaper in the whole country. Check it out:

Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.

According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity to the to nth power.

Report: White House Covered Up Gruber’s Gov’t Contract to Help Sell Obamacare ".....In other words, Gruber’s obscured relationship with the administration seems to have contributed to the impression of an organic consensus in favor of the law among health-care experts even as the professor was being paid by the law’s most important backer."

Nicely explained here: The CBO Effectively Used Gruber’s Model to Score Obamacare "...........In other words, an overwhelming number of the ostensibly independent statements or scores that were made or published in support of Obamacare —from Krugman, Klein, Brownstein, the DNC, Reid, Pelosi, Sebelius, and even, to a significant degree, the CBO itself — were traceable to the support of one man and his model. And that man was Jonathan Gruber, who was secretly under contract with the Obama administration."......

"...........As the New Republic reported in its congratulatory account of Obamacare’s enactment, “Gruber, one of the plan’s architects, led a group of center-left intellectuals who hyped the [Massachusetts] experiment’s success and touted it as a model for national action in articles, speeches, and consultation with prominent Democratic Party politicians.” Gruber certainly has a way with words: In a video uncovered last week, he crowed that Obamacare’s “lack of transparency” was “a huge political advantage,” as was “the stupidity of the American voter,” which “was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”

But it was one particular line of Gruber’s advocacy that now merits notice. In videos of 2012 addresses uncovered earlier this year, Gruber boasted that the act was structured to let the administration “squeeze the States to do it”—to set up exchanges themselves. “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,” he added. “I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that States will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges, and they’ll do it.”

But most states didn’t “do it.” As the D.C. Circuit court noted this summer, “only fourteen states and the District of Columbia have established Exchanges. The federal government has established Exchanges in the remaining thirty-six states, in some cases with state assistance but in most cases not.” The states’ decision not to set up their own exchanges upset the administration’s expectations, since it was counting on states to do so and thus accept federal subsidies for their citizens’ insurance. That unexpected development, the Obama administration recognized, undermined the program’s workability, since the absence of subsidies would decrease individuals’ willingness or ability to comply with the “individual mandate” and purchase insurance........ Obamacare’s State of Crisis - Halbig, but King bigger

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