"....And now consider just how useful Barack Obama finds them. Last week, the President struck up a global warming deal with China on carbon emissions. The United States will reduce its emissions, but China will do absolutely nothing. The President, in his speech, called the deal “historic.” That is important. The President said it.
Got that? The President used the word “historic” to describe the deal. Listen to his parrots, whores, and clowns.
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From the President saying it to “some are calling it” to it just being historic. The press just ran with it.
So is it any wonder the press is largely ignoring Jonathan Gruber or, as is happening more frequently, just running with Barack Obama’s talking points.
Jonathan Gruber was a routine visitor to the White House and sat in on the meetings to formulate Obamacare. Democrats across the nation and in Washington cited him, relied on him, and used him.
Now they’re all distancing themselves. He’s just a guy who got a grant. President Obama called him a nobody.
And the press that picked up “historic” will pick that up too.
It’s what they do."
Here is an important, easy to follow partial history of Gruber, the Administration, the Democrats and Left's compliant, eager media in the Obamacare deception:
I didn’t vote for Obama - in either of the 2 elections!
I’m not stupid - could care less about his bi-racial skin color and more about his Socialist background! I planted a sign that said so in my front yard in 2008!
...didn’t agree with this ACA either - have seen personally what it has done to jobs...I’m glad that guy who lost his insurance took it upon himself to go out and do REAL investigative journalism...something the MSM stopped doing decades ago...
As big as Gruber story itself is, I think the cover-up is even bigger.
The NUMBER ONE ISSUE of the 2016 campaign should be: the 100% collusion between the rats and the drive-bys, without the slightest pretense of any independence on the part of the drive-bys.
Much of the American public is not as stupid as Gruber thinks they are and some of the American Public is a lot smarter and just as well educated as Gruber is.
What much of America is though, is ignorant of the games being played behind closed doors and the cynical manipulation and lies the Democrats fed them. I think it still fair for Americans to expect their elected officials to tell them the truth as a condition for holding public office and politicians lying to the American people is a breach of their duty to the American people.
What good old arrogant and smarmy little Gruber did was educate the ignorant part of the American public that is either too busy or too preoccupied with their daily lives as to how corrupt the Democrats and much of the political class has become.
Perhaps even more importantly, he educated the American people on how much disrespect, hostility and outright contempt the political class has for the people who elect them to office.
In one week , Gruber has done more to educate America than he has in all his years teaching at MIT.
Now that we have been suitably educated, it's time for us stupid voters to return the favor and give a little eduction of our own to our dishonest, corrupt and incompetent scum bag political class
There’s something new about Gruber saying something about RACE!!! I just heard the last snippet on FOX with a black female doctor.
Except that laws are made by a constitutional govt that collects and distributes revenue---not by some clever ad guru getting paid to extract 2 bucks from consumers to eliminate underarm odor.
In the private sector, any company that lies to sell its product or service will be besieged by state, local, and federal agencies, many of them, and will be prosecuted for fraud.
What Gruber reveals is that there was a conspiracy to defraud the American people. RICO anyone? This is a big F’in deal because the people hate it, and want it to go away.
George Will and others have pointed out that Gruber made it clear in the videos that the language restricting the subsidies to state exchanges was deliberate. The Supremes will send this abomination back to Congress in June, and perhaps it can be completely ditched or altered to reduce the pain it now inflicts on the people.
Behold the Tammy Bruce special brand of snark.
We’re beginning to find out what it was like to live behind the “iron curtain”.
(Maybe these scu&bags will not continue to rule.)
IMHO
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Another ObamaCare Deception
By Tevi Troy, Wall Street Journal - November 17, 2014
As Jonathan Gruber knows, the health-care law is a tax machine. The ‘Cadillac’ levy will hit the middle class.
Mr. Gruber also noted that the real impact of the tax would fall on individual Americans: “We just tax the insurance companies, they pass on higher prices that offsets the tax break we get, it ends up being the same thing. It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” In another video that surfaced on Friday, he explained that the only way to get rid of the tax preference for employer-sponsored insurance was “by mislabeling it, calling it a tax on insurance plans rather than a tax on people, when we all know it’s a tax on people who hold those insurance plans.”
Our study bears this out. While the tax is designed to be paid by companies, employees or consumers will see significant increases in costs. These cost increases will be passed on in several ways. Large employers who are subject to the excise tax in 2018 will pay an average of more than $2,700 per employee a year from 2018 to 2024. As Mr. Gruber admits, and basic economics confirms, this cost will be passed on to consumers or to employees in higher prices and lower compensation.
Employers, being rational actors, will not want to pay these taxes and will reduce their health-care benefits to limit their potential exposure to the tax. Doing this will cause employees to be hit by the excise tax in at least two other ways. If employers increase taxable wages to compensate for reducing the value of their plans, then employees will be paying more in taxes for the same compensation levels, and more after-tax out-of-pocket expenses for their health care.
From 2018 to 2024, the excise tax could cost 12.1 million employees an average $1,050 in higher payroll and income taxes a year, if employers increase their taxable wages as they reduce the cost of health-care benefits. Alternatively, if employers only reduce the value of their offerings without increasing wages and salaries, these employees could see up to a $6,150 reduction in their health-care benefits and little or no increase in pay.
Mr. Troy is the president of the American Health Policy Institute and a former deputy secretary of Health and Human Services.
http://www.realdailybuzz.com/rdb.nsf/DocView?Open&UNID=f6d498f18688be2e85257d930006e000
The only thing about the Gruber revelations is that it only confirms to those of US who paid attention what we suspected as to what’s going on.
The GOPES (gop elite statists) running the 2012 campaign could have and should have gone through what was in AHAC (Obamacare) but after demonizing instead of working with TEA groups by simply by acknowledgeing their concerns.Didn’t. And the Republican’s lost insisting on playing under the “demographic” rules laid out by the democrat (in name only) socialist party.
The GOPES conducted a 2012 political campaign with two hands tied behind their back because of Romney’s connection with Mass’s state Health Care wreck. Now the GOPES are busy resurecting Romney. Amongst others and are now beating the bushes for their type of acceptable candidates.
Wonder what Gruber’s going rate now is with the Leigh Bureau, The World’s Preeminent Lecture Bureau Since 1929.
His quick header bio:
Leading Health Economist, behind both Romney’s and Obama’s reforms
Professor of Economics, MIT
A deep understanding of healthcare reform from one of its principal architects.
http://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/JGruber/