Obamacare: Mark Halperin Apologizes to Republicans For Believing White House on Gruber

NewsBusters ^ | June 22, 2015 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Are you so gullible as to place your faith in the credibility of the current White House? If so, you might have to find yourself end up eating crow and apologizing to the skeptics for your gullibility as happened to Bloomberg Politics managing editor Mark Halperin on Morning Joe today. Halperin's apology came on the heels of a report yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that despite previous White House denials, it actually had quite extensive contacts with Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.

Here are some of the details that made Halperin feel foolish for placing his blind faith in the White House:

[PJ-Comix]

If you place your blind faith in the credibility of the Obama administration, then you better acquire a taste for crow.

[Diogenesis]

From the Uniparty's introduction of Socialized Medicine.

"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis

[Steely Tom]

Did he actually apologize, or did he deliver some sort of non-apology apology?

[ghost of nixon]

He actually apologized. The other Dems on the panel made no attempt to defend the White House either.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

But everything else they said, that’s the gospel truth. Just the 0’care story is the bleeding stinking lie.

[Political Junkie Too]

Remember, in Obamaspeak, "just some guy..." means "central figure."

-PJ

[353FMG]

What a totally unappetizing bunch.

[Ray76]

Gruber’s name is all over the official record.

http://www.finance.senate.gov/hearings/hearing/?id=dc892979-001b-7677-e099-84105e0c92c9

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/legacy/fullcomm/107cong/2-13-02/records/gruber.htm

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/blog/09/11/24/An-Insightful-Article-on-Health-Care-Costs/

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg75442/html/CHRG-111shrg75442.htm

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-112srpt11/html/CRPT-112srpt11.htm

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111hhrg50479/html/CHRG-111hhrg50479.htm

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-111shrg50510/html/CHRG-111shrg50510.htm

on and on and on....

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/11/04/word-white-house-objective-analysis-shows-reform-will-help-small-businesses-lower-pr

and on and on

Here is the Department of Health and Human Services solicitation
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=3032e84fe13f650770acee31c1372a1b&_cview=1&cck=1&au=&ck=

Here is the award
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=3032e84fe13f650770acee31c1372a1b&_cview=0

The foregoing is just a small sample

[lowbridge]

Bump

[Ray76]

Pelosi webpage with discussion of Gruber analysis and link to same
http://web.archive.org/web/20100304070108/speaker.gov/newsroom/factcheck?id=0142

Nov 4, 2009 - According to a new analysis by MIT Professor and CBO health advisor Dr. Jonathan Gruber...
http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/index.php?q=news/mit-analysis-confirms-that-hr-3962-will-deliver-substantial-savings

Pelosi cites Gruber, he is an adviser to the CBO, he has testified before numerous committees, he has participated in Oval Office meetings discussing health insurance, yet Dems try to downplay Gruber. Why would that be? Could it be: “If you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits” - Gruber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34rttqLh12U

[Ray76]

Democrats insisted that PPACA is not a tax.

Pelosi's webpage:

MYTH: Mandating health insurance coverage is a new tax.

FACT: Not true.

http://web.archive.org/web/20101008091759/http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/factcheck?id=0114

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MYTH: Mandating health insurance coverage is like a new tax.

FACT: As President Obama pointed out yesterday: “[F]or us to say that you've got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase…

http://web.archive.org/web/20101008091920/http://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/factcheck?id=0109

Despite this Justice Roberts said it was a tax.

If Roberts now tells us that "exchange established by the state" really means "exchange established by the Federal HHS Secretary", then words have no meaning and rule of law has been destroyed.