The lies that are central to Obama’s agenda

The New York Post ^ | November 16, 2014 | Kyle Smith

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Damn Americans. They just don’t see the wisdom of surrendering to experts the power they need to remake the country into a progressive paradise.

Sighing with regret, liberals like Jonathan Gruber admit that they’re forced to hoodwink the citizens. For their own good.

Gruber, the MIT economist who (in the words of The New York Times) “put together the basic principles of” ObamaCare and helped Congress “draft the specifics of the legislation” is one of a long line of liberals driven by the belief that the stupidity of the American people is so insurmountable that persuasion is futile. Liberalism: the place where compassion blurs into condescension.

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage and basically, you know, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically, that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass,” Gruber said, in a newly unearthed 2013 video that went viral last week.

Gruber’s jocular tone wasn’t surprising. In explaining why a huge tax increase was disguised to conceal it from the American people, he was admitting what was obvious to close observers: The law is really just a redistribution scheme. Even the Democrats didn’t think ObamaCare could pass by being so described.

That’s why deception, as Gruber says, was central to its design.

Profiting from deceit.............

.....Telling the American people something you know to be false — if you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what — is lying.

Defenders scrambling to defend the administration’s lies are beclowning themselves.

“ ‘Stupidity’ is unfair. Ignorance is a more accurate term,” wrote Jonathan Chait in New York magazine.

To the charge that ObamaCare was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way, Chait replies that Gruber is talking about something totally different:......

[DeweyCA]

Very good post. Horowitz gets to the heart of the issue. Isaiah 14:12-17 tells of another who was filled with pride and thought that he deserved more power. Progressivism truly is satanic.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

An understandable blueprint of the sausage making: The CBO Effectively Used Gruber’s Model to Score Obamacare

[going hot]

Unions are not for the workers anymore; they’re really a way to get funds to the democrats.

Exactly. The same applies to the "college student loan program", nothing more than taxpayers funding the liberal professors and academia through the students, which then goes back to the dem party.

[GeronL]

were they ever really about the workers?

[going hot]

Gullible people get promised stuff all the time, just send in the monthly payments, and we will take care of you!

Getting down to fundamental basics, the income tax was just a few cents on the dollar, and only from the wealthy, you see.

[WashingtonSource]

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[Dqban22]

Not a simple 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.