Posted on 11/19/2014 5:37:16 AM PST by Zakeet
Watch Fox News Channel or listen to Rush Limbaugh these days and you will get a very large helping of Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor whose comments about the "stupidity" of the American people in relation to the passage of the Affordable Care Act has reignited political debate over the law.
Gruber is quite clearly conservative catnip. But why?
The key to understanding why Gruber has become a cause celebre -- but not in a good way -- for conservatives is that his comments about the ACA confirm two things that the right has long believed about Democrats and the law: (a) The ACA was made purposely vague to keep the public in the dark about its depth and breadth, and (b) liberals think conservatives are stupid.
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So, it's not just that the Obama administration is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. It's that they think you, conservative American, are too stupid to even notice. That's a double whammy of outrage about a topic -- the ACA -- that already had a long history of inflaming conservatives. And that's why conservatives can't get enough of Jonathan Gruber.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Rush Limbaugh responded to this article yesterday-
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2014/11/18/my_response_to_chris_cillizza
Am I right, Washington Post? Up high!
Exactly right. We were on to this guy since 2004. The stupid ones are the ones that elected him. Twice.
No prob, glad to be of assistance. A lot of people miss stuff like that, I guess I have my mother the proofreader for the knack of picking up on this kind of thing.
I learned the hard way to employ professional editors for my books. The writer’s mind “sees” what he meant to write, not what he wrote. I must have scanned that image with my eyes 100 times, and never saw the missing “standing” that should have followed “under” on the line above it.
Their blind assertion of moral superiority really gets me.
We were pointing out all the failings of the policies they were/are pushing, and they lie about those failings and call us names.
They have no interest in whether their policy works,
just how they feel about themselves for supporting those policies.
Funny, I just noticed that I omitted the words “to thank” (between proofreader and for) in my previous post to you.
That is hilarious!
Cillizza is just projecting. He was a huge champion of Obamacare and parrot for the Dem Party line on it.
He’s really the one who got burned here. But he can’t admit that he and his fellow Dems did. So he finds a way to lash out at Republicans.
Either that, or you willing went along with it knowing full well it was subterfugery.
To put it in terms you might grasp, you put the scotch tape on the door to keep it from latching when closed.
I have a knack for finding written errors. I often tell friends that I do business with that I will proofread their advertising or mailings for them for free, before they go to press. A few have taken me up on it. They are amazed at how many little errors one can easily overlook, because you have looked at it for so long. They might spell a word correctly in one place, only to misspell the same word somewhere else, or leave out a word altogether. Sometimes all you need is a fresh pair of eyes..
Absolutely spot on.
Hey Chris Cillizza - we think the press is made up of a bunch of butt kissing toadies too... Thanks for being our ‘Gruber of the Day’....
Hey Chris Cillizza - we think the press is made up of a bunch of butt kissing toadies too... Thanks for being our ‘Gruber of the Day’....
The bottom line is that Gruber proved liberal voters are stupid, and those they vote for know it.
The liberals that wrote the law knew the conservatives wouldn’t be fooled, only their stupid supporters would fall for the lies.
We need to hammer that point into democrat voters heads from now until 2016, those liberals you elect think you’re stupid!
Conservatives saw thru this scam from the beginning.
Another Pajama Boy.
HuffPo outed him: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/05/chris-cillizza-cbo-report_n_4732997.html
Cognitive Dissonance Posterboy of the Week.
The argument was, from their point of view
“we’re good people for supporting affordable healthcare for all, and you’re bad people for giving all these silly reasons why it won’t work and telling us there are ulterior motives behind the policy”
Then they find out that their reason for feeling good about themselves is based on lies,
and worse, those evil people that they are better than were right all along,
and they are really upset.
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