"The Barrel Man" by Jack Yeats - twice the artist his brother ever was.
That is EXACTLY what has happened. And Gruber has to be the sacrifice, the guy in the barrel, the patsy, the pigeon.
To defend Gruber, they have to tacitly agree with what he said - the legislation was designed to fool the voters. That is something that Democrats cannot do, lest they lose the rest of their seats in 2016. Gruber will end up slit from gonads to gullet before this is over, and he richly deserves it 1) for architecting it, and 2) for helping to create the lies that legitimized Democrats’ claims about it.
Make no mistake, Democrats hate doing this but it is for survival. He’s under the Bus.
If I had the time, I’d take the Drifters’ “Under the Boardwalk” and write the lyrics with him “Under the Bus”.
Political theater can have unexpected consequences.
Prior to the revolutionary war, Benjamin Franklin released some private letters from the Governor of Massachusetts in an effort to dissipate the radiacal fervor against Britain and focus it on the Governor. The King's privy council called in Franklin and publicly humiliated him, essentially casting HIM as the instigator of the trouble and no gentleman. Franklin is said to have muttered "I'll make your King a little man for this", flee Britain and throw in fully with the radicals from that point forward. And Frankin went on to be a HUGE factor in America winning that war.
I doubt Gruber becomes a Tea Party activist but he's an arrogant SOB and won't like being publicly humiliated. He may just decide to start blabbing even more, naming names and that sort of thing.
My son-in-law’s Dad is also a professor of Economics at M.I.T and is stunned that Gruber opened his yap the way he did.
"The Barrel Man" by Jack Yeats - twice the artist his brother ever was.