Posted on 11/18/2014 7:48:18 PM PST by Ray76
The Obama administration can try to distance itself from Jonathan Gruber all it wants, but a 2012 press release from Obamas own presidential campaign shows that when it comes to Obamacare, the president and Gruber are joined at the hip.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Can a republican form of government be turned into a socialist form of government and remain a republican form of government, in the American sense of the word?
Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
I am sure some DUers will say that GOPers went back in time and planted that press release
They are both Socialistic.
This is getting repetitive.
The biggest difference between Obamacare and Romneycare that I’m aware of is the size of the penalties and the severity of lack of compliance. Romneycare penalties are huge. They were not delayed, and there is only about a .0009 chance of receiving a hardship exemption. (I.e.: if you an illegal alien, under Romneycare your exemption is automatic. But if you are a working joe that just cannot afford the sky high Romneycare costs, then you are fined a whopping penalty, and CANNOT get out of owing/paying it.)
It that sense, Romneycare was worse at first. But if Obamacare is not dismantled, it will probably get to the same point eventually.
Art IV Sec 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government
Sorry. I should have looked to see if anyone else had replied to HiTech RedNeck before making the same reply you already had done.
No biggie. We can’t remind people of what the Constitution requires too many times.
Lucky for Obama the press is a bunch of toadies...
And NOBODY read it!
That works. I just stick with Grubercrats.
Thanks for the amazon link to the comic book. The reviews are fun to read, even the 5 star rated ones (which are often sarcastic).
Dr. Ben Carson | Nov 19, 2014
http://townhall.com/columnists/drbencarson/2014/11/19/stupidity-reconsidered-election-proved-americans-arent-fooled-by-gruber-and-obama-n1920600
What is truly disturbing is the fact that our government is willing to engage in the purposeful deception of the populace in order to thrust its secretive agenda onto an unsuspecting populace and a sycophantic mainstream media. As I have said many times before, Obamacare was never about health care; it was about government control and wealth redistribution. (Ben Carson)
Not a single 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.
Obamacare Architect/ Non-Staff Member Visited The White House Quite A Bit
Matt Vespa | Nov 19, 2014
Mr. Gruber went to the White House at least six times in 2009, according to a review of visitor logs. He met with the president on July 20, 2009, and was joined by other economists. Some of the other meetings were held with Jeanne Lambrew, deputy assistant to the president for health policy, and Peter Orszag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Mr. Gruber visited the White House at least twice in 2010 and met with Jason Furman, who is now chairman of the presidents Council of Economic Advisers. Mr. Gruber meet with Ms. Lambrew at least twice this year and was at the White House as recently as June, the records show. For five of the meetings, visitor records dont show when Mr. Gruber arrived or departed, making it unclear whether the appointments were kept.
Mr. Gruber wrote a 2011 cartoon book called Health Care Reform that aimed to explain the federal law. A note about the author says Mr. Gruber consulted extensively with the Obama administration and Congress during the development of the law.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2014/11/19/obamacare-architect-nonstaff-member-visited-the-white-house-quite-a-bit-n1920697
According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just a random adviser. For his invaluable advise and services to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity and corruption to the nth power.
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