Gruber frequently visited White House (21 times per WH visitor logs)

The Hill ^ | November 18, 2014 | Justin Sink

[maggief]

The ObamaCare consultant drawing fire for mocking the “stupidity of the American voter” visited the White House on nearly two dozen occasions and met with President Obama in the West Wing, according to a review of visitor logs.

MIT professor Jonathan Gruber held a series of high-level meetings with administration officials beginning in 2009 and extending through June of this year.

During the height of 2009’s ObamaCare debate, Gruber met repeatedly with former Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orzag, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, and Jeanne Lambrew, the deputy director of the White House Office of Health Reform, among other officials. He also participated in a meeting of economists with President Obama.

In subsequent trips, Gruber received tours of the West Wing and residence and had breakfast at the White House mess, an exclusive West Wing cafeteria. He also met with Jason Furman, who now chairs the Council of Economic Advisers, and NancyAnn DeParle, the White House's point person on ObamaCare’s implementation.

The visitor logs, which are publicly available but were first reported by The Wall Street Journal, show Gruber has visited the White House 21 times during the Obama presidency. Some of the records are incomplete — missing details about when Gruber entered or exited the complex — so it’s possible that some of those visits did not occur. http://online.wsj.com/articles/health-adviser-gruber-logged-several-white-house-visits-1416270949

The visits are also likely to generate new questions for the administration, which has worked hard to distance themselves from Gruber since his comments first surfaced.

At a press conference in Australia over the weekend, Obama dismissed Gruber as “some adviser who never worked on our staff.” Press secretary Josh Earnest said he disagreed “vigorously” with Gruber's comments.

In a series of academic lectures, Gruber said the ObamaCare bill was a “tortured way to make sure the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes,” essentially acknowledging that Democrats spun the penalties associated with the individual mandate as a fine, rather than a tax, for political reasons.

“If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies,” Gruber said. “So it’s written to do that.”

Gruber went on to say the bill might also have lost political momentum if voters realized that in insurance plans, healthier individuals pay more to subsidize the sick, who cost more to insure.

“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber continued. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to get anything to pass.”

Gruber later apologized for the comments in an interview with MSNBC.

“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” Gruber said. “I was speaking off the cuff. I basically spoke inappropriately. I regret having made those comments.”

Allies of President Obama have acknowledged that the comments have done some harm.

A new Gallup poll released Monday showed approval of ObamaCare at an all-time low, with just 37 percent of respondents saying they approved of the law and 56 percent saying they disapproved.

“It’s not good,” former White House press secretary Jay Carney told CNN. “It doesn’t help when someone who helped write not only ObamaCare, the president’s Affordable Care Act, but the precursor to it, which was Gov. Romney’s health care reform initiative in Massachusetts, speaks from the ivory tower with remarkable hubris about the American voter and, by extension, the American Congress.”

[maggief]

Sorry, forgot the link:

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/224490-gruber-frequently-visited-white-house

[Kenny500c]

Any one else notice how 21 times becomes “about a dozen” via media spin?

[Dagnabitt]

The most open and transparent administration ever.

(Think Rush has is right with "sociopath")

[loveliberty2]

"Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition, that a person is to extricate himself from a difficulty, by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimulation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an injustice. This increases the difficulties ten fold; and those who pursue these methods, get themselves so involved at length, that they can turn no way but their infamy becomes more exposed. It is of great importance to set a resolution, not to be shaken, never to tell an untruth. There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions." - See "Letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785," in Thomas Jefferson: Writings (New York: The Library of America, 1984), pp. 814-815.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Doesn’t matter..............complete news blackout.

[Da Coyote]

Flies are inevitably drawn to the biggest, smelliest pile of shi...er...Obamastuff.

[MeshugeMikey]

common core journalism.....

21 times??....more than friends?

suppose Goober and Obie had a THING goin on???

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

You know, Gruber may be right. The American people did elect the Negro community organizer from Chicago and that requires a massive amount of stupidity.

[Jim from C-Town]

So did the head of the Obamacare roll out and the head of the IRS. This won’t stick to Obama any more than those did.

These guys are crooks and the media are their accomplices.

[YHAOS]

No Kidding! Really?! Ya think?!

[Grampa Dave]

Obama in 2006 in a pre Grubergate video, said that he has stolen many ideas from Gruber:
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/11/17/Obama-Claimed-to-Have-Stolen-Ideas-from-Gruber-in-2006

6 Grubergate videos so far make Nixon’s little missing tape minutes look like a sniffle in preschool.

First You Tube link to Gruber bragging about lying to stupid American Voters about ObozoCare.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G790p0LcgbI

Second Grubergate Video link to Gruber bragging about how stupid American voters are/were to pass ObozoCare.

<http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/12/gruber-video-2-no-really-american-voters-are-stupid/

Third Video from Herr Gruber on stupid Americans wanting Obozocare.

http://weaselzippers.us/205230-three-strikes-third-video-of-obamacare-architect-jonathan-gruber-calling-americans-stupid/

Fourth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans.

http://www.c-span.org/video/?292478-1/health-care-reform

Fifth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans, Fifth Video Emerges, Showing Gruber Mocking Man Worried About Obamacare

http://dailysignal.com/2014/11/14/fifth-video-emerges-showing-gruber-mocking-man-worried-about-obamacare/

Sixth Grubergate video from Herr Gruber re stupid Americans.

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/11/14/the-hits-keep-coming-gruber-video-6/

There is also a there is a PBS video of Gruber saying he worked with Obama himself in the Oval office:

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/14/president-crafted-obamacare-deception-with-gruber-at-white-house-meeting/

Remember zero Republicans in Congress voted for ObozoCare. Every stupid rat in Congress voted for it without reading the bill or caring what was in it.

Gruber is proof that Democrats/Progressives can’t survive without deceit and lies, (aka Grubering).

[Diogenesis]

Gruber: "Am I not the key architect of Massachusetts’ health reform?
the 19th most powerful person in health care in the United States
crowned by Modern Healthcare Magazine? and consultant to the Clinton,
Edwards and Obama Presidential campaigns? even toasted
by the Washington Post as “the party's most influential
health-care expert?”

Parrot: "You can only fool all of the humans some of the time."

[spokeshave]

Any one else notice how 21 times becomes “about a dozen” via media spin?

Yeeah...the new math

And is that a Bakers Dozen...?

Anyway...more like 2 dozen

[Tenacious 1]

They meant “about 2-dozen”. It was “basically a typo.”

[yoe]

(Jonathan Gruber)

(Who is J.G.)

(Nancy Pelosi lies..again)

(Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, in 2010)

[DaxtonBrown]

Gruber? Gruber? Nope, never heard of him.

It is now amateur hour, they can’t even lie like they used to.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

What is the threshold to impeachment? Is there a limit? Any limit when it comes to this guy? If he beheaded somebody on national HD -TV in full living color would Congress still sit on its ass? What exactly does he have to do here because I really don’t know anymore. He’s done the treason thing multiple times, he’s helped kill innocent Americans and defended those who did, he’s armed enemies of the USA, he constantly scams the public, he lies like a religion, he assists and encourages foreign invasion, he helps spread and defend radical Islam. I mean compare this to Nixon and the Watergate college prank. THAT was more severe than what this Obama is doing?

[Billthedrill]

Wow, that’s a lot of White House tours. Oh, wait, has 0bama turned those back on yet?

[Tenacious 1]

Did Goober where a blue dress? Did he keep it? Can we find it?

Oh wait, we already did, 3 to 6 times from his own, on video, confessions.

But Obama, “Never heard of him, that man, Mr. Grueber, not once. Not ever.”