Posted on 11/16/2014 3:44:17 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
BRISBANE, Australia — President Obama dismissed renewed criticism of his signature health care law Sunday and disputed an assertion from a former architect of the policy who claimed the administration had deceived lawmakers.
Jonathan Gruber, an economist, suggested last year that the administration’s signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the “stupidity of the American voter” and a “lack of transparency” over its funding mechanisms.
“I just heard about this,” Obama said at a new conference, after wrapping up two days of meetings with world leaders here at the G-20 Summit. “The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed his opinion that I completely disagree with — it is no reflection on the actual process that was run.”....
....“We had a year-long debate,” Obama said. “Go look back at your stories. One thing we can’t say is that we didn’t have a lengthy debate over health care in the United States. Every press outlet here should go back and pull up every clip and every story. It’s fair to say there is not a provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was not fully transparent.”......
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Wow! The audacity of a bull***tter. He wants his fawning media to go back and look at their coverage of the transparency and open debates?
I must admit, I did a close double check to verify it wasn't.
He sure got paid a lot of consulting money from de gubmint for never working on it!
Liar!
Yeah, that “healthy debate” basically consisted of the administration, its cronies and the cheerleading media responding to every criticism and warning about the effects of the bill with “Will not!”
He is on record as visiting the WH numerous times and that includes one-on-one meetings w/zer0. His name is on the comic book of lies written for the stupid. He received $5M in total for all his work. He appeared in closed meetings held to *inform* second-tier elitists, such as academics, and in those meetings he bragged about lack of transparency and manipulating the stupid voters. videos of those meetings are now being published.
The people deserve apologies and they just get more lies. They all really do think everyone is a dummy.
It’s fair to say there is not a provision in the health care law that was not extensively debated and was not fully transparent.”
Like everything else, Obama found out presumably on the news. He's the worst informed occupant of our White House in history. He still hasn't heard Pelosi's "we have to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill" or he'd know this was the least transparent legislation in history.
He is collapsing. He is forced to create alternative narratives in order to soothe the hurt he received this month.
The problem is, nobody believes a word he says anymore except for the press and the hard core Hopeychangers
Words fail me.
On Friday’s show Rush said his next claim will be he heard about it in the news just like everybody else.
Of course that was said here on FR the day the story broke and for several days thereafter, it seems to me this is where Rush gets material for his commentaries.
“We had a year-long debate”
If you want to see what’s in the bill you have to pass it.
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