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Gruber loses yet another job
Hotair ^ | 11/24/2014 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 11/24/2014 5:39:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind

In a somewhat ironic fashion, if Jonathan Gruber has taught us anything, it’s that telling the truth won’t get you far in the political world. After famously describing how the success of Obamacare relied heavily on the gullibility and short attention span of the voters, both former and prospective employers have been scurrying away from him like he was an Ebola dog. First he saw his old friends Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi stricken with shocking bouts of amnesia where they seemed unable to even recall his name. Then a plush job with the the state of Vermont – to the tune of $400K – had the plug pulled on it. And now, North Carolina has shown Mr. Gruber the door.

North Carolina’s state auditor on Thursday terminated a contract with Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economics professor and health-care expert whose comments on the Affordable Care Act have generated fury among conservatives.

Earlier this week, Wood’s office decided they had to fire Gruber because it couldn’t “eliminate [the] appearance of an independence impairment,” according to a timeline released by the Auditor’s office. Wood met with Republican leaders of the General Assembly on Tuesday to inform them of the decision, then called Gruber on Wednesday.

“Gruber’s comment that it was all right to mislead people to get to a desired outcome that he favored led our auditors to determine he had at least the appearance of an independence impairment,” Bill Holmes, a spokesman for the Auditor’s office, told WRAL.

We probably shouldn’t feel too badly for Jonathan. He’ll still collect $100K on the North Carolina contract, and it’s not like he won’t have many other exciting appointments on his calendar to keep him busy. For example, in just a few weeks he’ll be given the VIP tour of the Capitol when he testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He can undoubtedly look forward to plenty of fascinating question and answer sessions there and the chance to make many new friends.

I have to wonder if Mr. Gruber isn’t missing an obvious opportunity here. Clearly liberal politicians and their friendly media outlets have branded him a villain for having inadvertently exposed how they truly feel about the American public. But what about conservative media? If Gruber needs a new gig after all this is over, perhaps he should just embrace the image of being the reluctant truth teller and take that act on the road. What if he becomes the new health or budgeting expert at Heritage? Perhaps the Stupid Voter Tricks Analyst at Fox News? If he figured out how to get Americans to swallow Obamacare, surely he could describe battle plans for how to sell us on comprehensive immigration reform or tax reform at Investors Business Daily.

The world is still your oyster, Mr. Gruber. You have only to reach out and open it.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gruber; jonathangruber; obamacare

1 posted on 11/24/2014 5:39:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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whats the over/under on if mit has a problem with deceit and will let him go?


2 posted on 11/24/2014 5:46:16 AM PST by willywill
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I'm no Gruber fan, but I hate to see how this story has become completely about Gruber and not about the fact that he simply advised the president to deceive, and the president was the one who implemented the deception.

Gruber had no power to do anything he said or felt. He had to have willing people in power to get the scam done.
3 posted on 11/24/2014 5:50:57 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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This POS govt fraudster isn't off the hook until WE'RE FRICKIN' READY.

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LET'S CONNECT THE DOTS---The salient point is this: Gruber acting as an independent researcher is one thing--- but Gruber consorting w/ many people in govt figuring out ways to lie in order to dupe the tax-paying public is a CONSPIRACY.

POINTS TO PONDER:

<><> (1) WH sign-in sheets show Gruber went there at least nineteen times.

<><>(2) Gruber, himself, talked about Obama being in the room when the Cadillac tax was invented.

<><> (3) Based on his Obamacare experiences, Gruber took tax dollars from several states to set up Obamacare exchanges....and earned millions of dollars doing so.

<><>(4) Nancy Pelosi is caught on-tape citing Gruber as a reliable source.

<><> (5) Gruber was there when Hillarycare was developed.

<><>(6) Another Gruber confession involved a conspiracy w/ Teddy Kennedy--- outright govt fraud by manipulating Medicare for some $500 million to secretly finance Romneycare.

<><>(7) A former adviser to then-HHS Secy Kathleen Sebelius told the NYT Gruber was on-board whie the govt was formulating the plan.

<><> (8) According BarackObama.com 2012, President Obama's official website, Jon Gruber "helped write Obamacare....w/ specific quotes from Obama tying Mitt Romney to ObamaCare...saying that "RomneyCare" was the model for Obamacare.

<><> (9) The Congressional Budget Office Effectively Used Gruber’s Model to Score Obamacare.

<><> (10) Harry Reid in the well of the US senate called Gruber "the most trusted economist in the world."

In sum, the makings of a conpiracy are well-documented---Gruber had influence over the CBO, the White House, and Congress alike. It's hard to overestimate his importance; Gruber's role was central to the efforts of President Obama and his Democratic allies to shove Obamacare down an unwilling citizenry’s throat.

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I'M SURE VALERIE KNOWS (/SNIX)---Grubama is downplaying Gruber's role, claiming he had no part in passing healthcare.But if Gruber was NOT the Obamacare architect---then Gruber took money under false pretenses and should be prosecuted for govt fraud. He took tax dollars from the feds and state govts "posing" as an expert.

TAXPAYERS DEMAND CONGRESS GET ANSWERS WRT GRUBER'S CASHING-IN ON THE BACKS OF "STUPID" TAXPAYERS

Four U.S. states and the federal government (read taxpayers) have padded Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's wallet to the tune of $5.9 million since 2000, including millions connected to his work on the Affordable Care Act.

We need investigations---to see how our tax dollars changed hands---and landed into Gruber's pockets. The disdainful, preening Gruber was paid tax dollars to spin his web of lies...and to reiterate his contempt for taxpayers who are footing the bills.

Even more disturbing is the massive, multi-billion-dollar slush fund the self-serving Gruber hid from "stupid" Americans in Obamacare. Gruber made dam sure it was kept hidden from us stupid taxpayers.

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The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly voted for Obamacare by an historic straignt-party line vote. But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).

THE PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion, and, in 2015 and on, $2 billion

<><> Where is all that money going?

<><> Was cashing-in the incentive in getting the thing passed.

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Taxpayers demand to know ---- why Gruber/Obama/Pelosi didnt reveal that Obamacare contains a multi-billion dollar slush fund? Exactly who is cashing in?

The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to offshore banks is almost palpable.

4 posted on 11/24/2014 5:54:02 AM PST by Liz
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s still laughing all the way to the bank...


5 posted on 11/24/2014 5:56:56 AM PST by tips up (Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Independence impairment? These folks are clever with words aren’t they?


6 posted on 11/24/2014 5:58:16 AM PST by refermech
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Gruber had no power to do anything. He had to have people in power complicit in getting the scam done.... Gruber advised the president to deceive......the president (and the lock-stepping Congress) implemented the deception....

As the esteemed Dr Carson opined: Obamacare was never about health care; it was about government control and wealth redistribution.

Clearly---Gruber was handed the Marxist dream plan FIRST. Then Obama bribed money-hungry Gruber w/ $400,000 hefty tax dollars to invent a healthcare model that he, and lock-stepping Dems, could sell to gullible Americans.

PROGRESSIVE POISON The so-called "Cadillac tax" was part of the Obama/Gruber conspiracy designed: (1) to destroy wealthy insurance companies......targets of Progressive virulent hatred, and, (2) to deny end-of-life care to the elderly....deplored by Progressive Poisoners in our midst.

Other Progressive Poisons: healthcare rationing, pulling $750 million out of Medicare, death panels....... and the Marxist Dream Triumphant: decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth (a longtime Progressive bugaboo); grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to you.

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Gruber delivered Progressive Poison in spades: The preening, duplicitous Gruber---the embodiment of cockamamie far-left thinking---believed it was his moral duty to lie, deceive and collude w/ the US govt......so that these revolting ideas could be imposed on "sub-mental defectives' taking up valuable space in their Utopian America.

Loyal foot-soldier Gruber, in obeisance to the Marxist dream, invented mechanisms to serve Obama's Marxist obsession w/ wealth transfer---as candidate Obama told Joe the Plumber---his plan was to redistribute the wealth:

(1) throwing Americans off affordable health plans
while assuring them they could "keep their plans,"

(2) nationalizing 1/6 of the US economy,

3) installing IPAB's (healthcare rationing),

(4) decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth a longtime Progressive bugaboo;
via Obamacare, grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to you,

(5) pulling $750 billion out of Medicare (another Progressive irritant---giving the elderly healthcare),

(6) drug-rationing---death panels,

(7) outright abandoning seniors and the chronically ill,

(8) transferring wealth from healthy young Americans to subsidize healthcare for others.

Obama organized Democrats into a lock-stepping cheerleading squad to force the Progressive Poison down the throats of recalcitrant Americans.

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Vladimir Lenin / 1945 pamphlet

“Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.”

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AFTERTHOUGHT The fraudulent methods used to package Obamacare are a clue as to how Obama was packaged as a candidate----except his handlers effectively papered-over his Progressive Poison. Poison he administered to Americans gulled into complacency.....congratulating themselves for being so great a country---they could elect a black man to high office.

7 posted on 11/24/2014 6:01:22 AM PST by Liz
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s all nice and good but it still means nothing. Many of the criminals who actually did the deed are still there pimping Obamacare as the best thing since sliced bread.


8 posted on 11/24/2014 6:12:22 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: mmichaels1970

He drew up the plan.

Democrats burst into the bank with guns blazing, took hostages, shot a few, blew up the vault, and drove the getaway car.


9 posted on 11/24/2014 6:13:48 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Another verb for “gruber”. North Carolina grubered Gruber.


10 posted on 11/24/2014 6:13:54 AM PST by kjam22 (my music video "If My People" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74b20RjILy4)
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He’s been tossed under the bus, but truly, he did it at O’s and Pelosi’s bidding. If they can scapegoat him, they hope to not be touched. Too bad they are neck-deep in scandal after scandal.


11 posted on 11/24/2014 6:14:51 AM PST by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: cripplecreek
He drew up the plan.

Democrats burst into the bank with guns blazing, took hostages, shot a few, blew up the vault, and drove the getaway car.


Perfect analogy. Would love to hear it spread nationally.

He's sort of like the tech guy in Die Hard.
12 posted on 11/24/2014 6:19:12 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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Gruber loses yet another job

You know, except for his superiority attitude, arrogance and deceit, I agree with Gruber - only a Country of morons would allow someone like Baraq Hussein 0bama, who is dedicated to our destruction, continue to usurp the highest office, and that's not to mention the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, Barbara Boxer, Juan McLame, Lindsey Graham, etc., etc., etc.

13 posted on 11/24/2014 6:40:05 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (OK. Now How many votes do we need to IMPEACH and REMOVE the bastard?)
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Junkies, he’s down to only 1.7 million per year earnings... Out of your tax dollars. How will he survive?


14 posted on 11/24/2014 7:23:45 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to offshore banks is almost palpable.

What about FATCA? Won't they have to report their offshore holdings that are more than $10,000? Or does the IRS give them a pass like it did to Charlie Rangel?

15 posted on 11/24/2014 7:24:26 AM PST by ELS
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To: SeekAndFind

He doesn’t need work if I had his money I would throw mine away.


16 posted on 11/24/2014 7:39:03 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: tips up

It’s probably worth it to him to have expressed how superior he is to “the stupid voters”.


17 posted on 11/24/2014 7:41:32 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mmichaels1970
Feel free to spread it around.


18 posted on 11/24/2014 8:39:26 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Do you think the Genius Jonathan Goober knows that stupid Americans across the land are laughing at his dumbass?


19 posted on 11/24/2014 9:44:55 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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