Hearings floated as Hill Republicans seize on Gruber Obamacare comments

WaPo ^ | Robert Costa and Jose A. DelReal

[RoosterRedux]

Congressional Republicans seized Wednesday on controversial comments made by a former health-care consultant to the Obama administration, with one leading House conservative suggesting that hearings could be called in response as part of the GOP effort to dismantle the law in the next Congress and turn public opinion ahead of the 2016 election.

"We may want to have hearings on this," said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview at the Capitol. "We shouldn't be surprised they were misleading us."

[Still Thinking]

Oooh....hearings! I bet the fascists’re really shaking in their boots now!

[Eva]

I want to know if Ezekiel Emanuel was at that same conference and what he had to say. Emanuel works for the U of P hospital. He is head of patient health services. He should have been there.

[Sirius Lee]

Fraud is fraud.

[Moonman62]

“We may want to have hearings on this,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners

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A hardliner to the WaPo is anybody with common sense.

[Still Thinking]

Well, and do something stronger than hearings. If it never goes any farther than hearings, it’s just for pandering to the conservative base while carefully making sure not to impede the march of fascism in the least. Put some people in jail, run a nationwide 24/7 media campaign so the LI’s know what the Dems think of them. DO something meaningful.

[MNDude]

what a gift to conservatives that big mouth Gruber has been. I wonder if someone with that arrogance can feel shame though.

[dfwgator]

Shame is a foreign concept to liberals.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “Well, and do something stronger than hearings. If it never goes any farther than hearings, it’s just for pandering to the conservative base while carefully making sure not to impede the march of fascism in the least. Put some people in jail, run a nationwide 24/7 media campaign so the LI’s know what the Dems think of them. DO something meaningful.”

Amen! What you said.

[hawkaw]

Exactly. That has been my thought all along - make him do it.

[Parley Baer]

“I have never heard the Washington Post ever call a democrat politician as a “hardliner”.”

Me either. They also like to call Conservative legislation “controversial”. These terms are never applied to liberal dimoKKKRATS.

[ronnie raygun]

We want to have hearings???? floated????? your deciding whether to or not? you better have them and now. The GOP is now on the hot seat and it's not the rats it's us the voters who will demand they act and act decisively and fast These criminals need to be crushed where they stand

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Gruber apologized for his incendiary remarks

Headline?

Republican soon-to-be majority approved a stern measure against Gruber
Letter Warns "Don't let it happen again."

(Sarcasm due to my shear frustration with those Republican members of Congress.)

Maybe --

• if Obama does have FBI files or other sources on the Republicans
• -- maybe if a couple of the Republicans would come forward and admit to wrong doing somewhere in their past and
• start the procedure to relieve all the others from the threat of public exposure
• we could take a step toward restoring our Constitution.

If the problem is shear greed and the desire to be part of the ruling class than eventually it is going to take some drastic actions.

[VRW Conspirator]

Does the Washington Post ever call any Dems “hardliners”?

Or far-left, extremists, mavericks, etc.

[mmichaels1970]

Make him do it then.

Agreed. Then you vote to override and you get every stinking rat commie scumbag on record as supporting the veto.

[Alberta's Child]

Nothing is going to happen to this guy ... not even hearings in Washington. You can bank on it.

The reason for it is simple: The same guy was the architect of RomneyCare in Massachusetts.

[Diogenesis]

The EXEMPT never care, until the People
have THEM in the dock, indicted, and on Trial.

[Paladin2]

We don’t need anymore stinkin’ hearings. Collect some scalps.

[jetson]

Everyone knew it was a scam from the beginning. The pea has been uncovered so just get rid of the scam and the scammers.

[Paladin2]

"The pea has been uncovered"

uh...,uhhhhh, eat your PEAS!

[Graybeard58]

WaPo also refers to the major designer of obamacare as, “former health-care consultant”.