Posted on 11/18/2014 11:24:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Republicans are hyping past comments from ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber as a way to distract from what’s going well for the healthcare law.
After saying that Gruber’s view that the healthcare law was passed partly because of the “stupidity” of the American voter is not shared by “anybody at the White House,” Earnest challenged claims that ObamaCare was not passed in a transparent way.
He also suggested that few Americans are paying attention to the controversy.
“People are understandably pretty tired of relitigating all the fights from 2009 and 2010,” Earnest said Tuesday at his daily press briefing.
“Some Republicans are fanning the flames of those old political arguments because it's politically advantageous. It's easier for them to talk about six-to-eight-year-old videos than to talk about how the open enrollment period has gone smoothly so far, or the millions who have gotten health insurance.
“I don't believe there's a particularly large audience among the American people [for the Gruber dispute],” he added.
Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has been in hot water since last week when several old gaffes related to ObamaCare went viral.
In the videos, Gruber said the “stupidity of the American voter” contributed to the passage of the law and that a “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.” He later apologized in an interview with MSNBC.
The issue has lit up conservative media as outlets hunt for additional clips that could bolster their criticism of ObamaCare’s passage.
Gruber's remarks have also put pressure on Democrats to explain how close he was to the legislative process.
Leaders have taken different approaches to answering the question. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said last week that she didn't know who Gruber was, though she had previously touted his work.
President Obama dismissed Gruber over the weekend as “some adviser who never worked on our staff.”
Earnest sought to thread the needle Tuesday by calling Gruber an “adviser” who was focused on the economics of healthcare, not communications or legislative strategy.
“It wasn't his responsibility to try to figure out how to get this bill through,” Earnest said.
“It also, I think, is why it's pretty clear that the views that he's articulated do not reflect what happened.”
At least one Republican — Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) — has called for a probe of Gruber's federal consulting payments.
No, no... Obama...
We’re fanning the “see, we told you he was deceitful” flames,
and the “your agenda can’t be implemented without lying” flames.
Stupid is as stupid does, Obamadork.
Concealed any grades lately, dumbsh*t?
Fanning the flames of truth. That’s a good thing.
“They are taking advantage of the fact that Democrat voters are pathetic morons. This is unkind. How dare they spend their time pointing this out? It is rude. It is like telling someone with a physical disability that they are disabled over and over again. Come on, they know it. Our voters know they are absolutely stupid, stop rubbing their faces in it. It is just cruel”
This from a party who fanned the spark of a teenage girl playing around with witchcraft into a firestorm of Christine O'Donnell holding a black mass in the rotunda of the Capitol if she had been elected?
I’ll bet Josh Earnest even lies to his own mother.
BS ALERT! Of course it's shared by every single person at the White Hut. Democrat voters = Stupid People - they know it, and they rely on it.
This from the "most transparent Administration in U.S. History???"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !
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liberals are so into projection...its like clock work!
Actually, what I’m tried of is the Dems recycling their old and tired excuses and defense mechanisms. “Move on” is Clinton-era B.S. At least get some new lies.
Methinks they've overestimated the stupidity of the US voter, when our survival is at stake.
Behold the new talking points! See, see you mean-old Republicans, this is old news now!
This is a true statement. Not sure what the point is, though.
The Democrats hate being beaten at their own game?
Unfortunately Gruber is correct...
America is generally much stupid’er than they used to be...
Federal schools have have made them that way..
A very planned and executed progressive gambit... oh and successful..
To say Gruber is WRONG is STUPID... he is correct..
Republicans allowed this to happen.. it was not done in the dark.. “mysteriously”..
Mostly democrat controlled BUT republic ALLOWED transition..
AND it’s till happening DAILY.. every single day..
at schools from grade 1 to post graduate school..
Supported by federal grants of every size and grade.. and Sedition..
Passed by REPUBLICANS.. with their democrat Masters..
Whats needed is NOT a Third party...
Whats needed is a Second Party..
It is like a person keeps pointing out someones handicap to them. They already know about it and stop being rude.
Democrats already know they are morons, it is rude to keep pointing it out, I guess was Obama’s point.
fanning the flames of brushfires of freedom
Private sector executives would be in federal prison if they lied and mislead shareholders like this White Hut.
Even the low-information crowd is on to the Kenyan’s grubering.
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