Tired of Hearing about Gruber [satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 22 Nov 2014 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

The American people are “tired of hearing about Gruber,” according to White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Video tapes of MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), have been doing major damage to the Administration’s credibility over the past two weeks. In the videos, Gruber is repeatedly shown describing voters as stupid and gloating about how Democrats used this stupidity to deceptively enact the ACA.

Earnest warned the media to drop the issue “because, frankly, the President is tired of hearing about it. These tapes and the alleged deceptions they portray happened years ago. The events Dr. Gruber speaks of in them are over and done. The ACA is the law of the land now and no amount of Monday-morning quarterbacking is going to change that.”

“The only relevant issue is whether the ACA is good policy,” Earnest maintained. “If it’s good policy, and the President is confident it is, what does it really matter what tactics were used to get it implemented?”

Earnest expressed confidence that “this, like all the other phony scandals the GOP has been concocting, will die down and disappear from everyone’s radar screen before too long. Everyone just needs to chill and let the President rule the nation, as he was elected to do.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

http://azconservative.org/2014/11/22/presidents-usurpation-of-legislative-authority-hailed-by-democrats/

[Starstruck]

I would say the media dropped it like a hot potato, but they didn’t even pick the potato up.

[PROCON]

what does it really matter what tactics were used to get it implemented?”

GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER GRUBER and of course GRUBER!

[rockrr]

Bravo John, they may be tired of it but I’m loving it! ;’)

[smoothsailing]

[MUDDOG]

Another example of the media ignoring Gruber is in the USA Today article linked at Drudge:

PAPER: Four words that could unravel Obamacare...

The article is about the court case concerning Obamacare subsidies, and the "four words" are from the Obamacare law in regard to subsidies being only for healthcare exchanges "established by the State."

Now, inasmuch as Jonathan Gruber emphatically said in the video that the Obamacare law intentionally limited subsidies to state exchanges, that's a big piece of evidence of the law's intent for "established by the State."

But there's not one mention of Gruber in the USA Today article.

[I-ambush]

When I hear the name “Gruber,” I think, “yippee-kiyay, M....F.......”

[Starstruck]

Now, inasmuch as Jonathan Gruber emphatically said in the video that the Obamacare law intentionally limited subsidies to state exchanges, that's a big piece of evidence of the law's intent for "established by the State.

I think I heard Judge Napolitano state that the Supreme Court is limited to evidence presented in the briefs. Since the Gruber statements were just publicized lately, they will not be part of the case. Hopefully there is enough evidence without it to limit the subsidies. I think it's going to come down to Roberts again.

[MUDDOG]

It IS included in the briefs!

Check out this thread:

Philly-Based Investment Adviser Has Become Obamacare's Digital Menace

"Weinstein’s first video was included in the legal challenge to Obamacare. And that challenge -- King v. Burwell -- ended up making its way to the Supreme Court."

[sauropod]

That’s because the American people are too stupid not to be tired of the Gruber story. /s

[Starstruck]

It IS included in the briefs!

Thanks for clarifying that. I glad what I heard is incorrect.

[ViLaLuz]

Cue up Hillary, “I’m so taaaard.”