Why Jonathan Gruber is conservative catnip (cause you Freepers are mean!)

Washington Post ^ | November 18, 2014 | Chris Cillizza

[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.

[Snip]

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.

[wildbill]

I haven’t heard one valid reason why Democrats wanted to pass the law without giving opponents—or themselves for that matter-—a chance to read its provisions and debate the reality, rather than the propaganda put forward by Gruber who knew all the dirty little secrets but felt it was better to lie about its provisions in order to mislead the Congress and the American people.

Any media defenders of the ACA, the Democrats and Gruber have a big burden to overcome as to why they rolled over on their back and asked for the administration to rub their tummies.

[DuncanWaring]

There was a place I worked a few decades ago where a pilot’s manual for a product we built had a sentence that said the exact opposite of what it should have.

It had been reviewed by about a dozen people before someone looked at and said “Hey - this ain’t right!” and everyone else said “Crap - how’d we miss that?”.

[Dqban22]

Not a single Republican senator or Congressman voted in favor of that monstrosity called Obamacare. It must be make perfectly clear that democrat Phd com man Gruber, called stupid not all the American voters, but just the democrat voters that put the “Liar in Chief” in the White House, in spite of his Marxist anti-American back ground, and all the Democrats legislators co-conspirators with the president and the MSM in the greatest deception against the American people in the history of the United States.

According to Obama, the MTI professor, a frequent visitor to the White House, was just an adviser. For his “invaluable advise and services” to the Obama administration professor Gruber received over 5.9 million dollars... Stupidity and corruption to the to nth power.