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Video: ObamaCare architect brags about lack of transparency in law
HOTAIR.COM ^ | 10 NOVEMBER 2014 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 11/10/2014 7:25:30 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist

In a sense, Jonathan Gruber’s response today to the emergence of his 2012 explanation for the language in ObamaCare mirrors the attempt to get courts to ignore the plain text of the statute and instead rule based on the most current interpretation. The New Republic’s Jonathan Cohn reached out to Gruber to get his reaction to the emergence of the Nobilis video in which the architect of ObamaCare explains that the restriction of subsidies to states with their own exchanges was a rational attempt to coerce states into creating those exchanges, rather than shifting the burden back to the federal government. Gruber calls that “a speak-o — you know, like a typo”:

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: affordablecareact; california; gruber; healthcaregov; jonathangruber; nancypelosi; obama; obamacare
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Criminals — proud of their crimes.


21 posted on 11/10/2014 8:00:03 AM PST by EagleUSA
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To: Logical me

The salient point is not whether voters are stupid or not - the salient point is that he’s admitting to writing the law precisely to take advantage of that stupidity, and that the liberal base voters are indeed the stupid ones.


22 posted on 11/10/2014 8:01:23 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: PJ-Comix

Weird that it’s just making “news” on Fox today.....


23 posted on 11/10/2014 8:07:52 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: wtd

24 posted on 11/10/2014 8:23:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: onyx

Guess who was the FIRST person to post about that video on a major website?


25 posted on 11/10/2014 8:39:31 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

YOU!


26 posted on 11/10/2014 8:45:34 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Yup! And I just checked and it is definitely going...VIRAL! The Daily Caller picked it up AFTER me and just a little over an hour ago The Blaze also picked it up. Listen to Rush in a few minutes. I won’t be surprised if he plays the clip and talks about it.


27 posted on 11/10/2014 8:54:32 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

You posted it 2 days ago and I missed it!

I hope Rush plays the clip!

Please let me know!

I think I will BTTT your thread.


28 posted on 11/10/2014 8:56:13 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx
Jonathan Gruber Remains MIA as Obamacare Returns to Supreme Court.

Second video in the story. Listen to Rush...and Sean today.

29 posted on 11/10/2014 8:57:39 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix
Oh wow!! Thank you!

B T T T ! ! ! ©

30 posted on 11/10/2014 8:59:27 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Can the courts still subpoena Big Mouth and require him to give it up on Sovietcare from the stand?

He deserves to broil with his turkey.


31 posted on 11/10/2014 9:12:00 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: onyx

Fox News website just posted the video but they gave the H/T to Daily Signal. Daily Signal posted it yesterday but I posted it the day before on Saturday.


32 posted on 11/10/2014 9:17:41 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Rush is talking about it NOW!


33 posted on 11/10/2014 9:18:10 AM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

RUSH TALKING ABOUT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


34 posted on 11/10/2014 9:18:10 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Coakley 2016!!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Johnny Gruber provides insight into the democrat playbook.

Go stupid or go home.


35 posted on 11/10/2014 8:38:56 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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