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A Government of Grubers
Bill O'Reilly ^ | November 20, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 11/20/2014 4:28:14 PM PST by Bettyprob

Jonathan Gruber let it slip. He thinks you're pretty much a moron. And, being a moron, you couldn't possibly understand legislation as complex and important as the Affordable Care Act. Actually, Gruber didn't merely let it slip - he repeatedly called Americans idiots, in the process affirming his own vastly superior intelligence.

And he obviously is a pretty smart guy. It's not easy getting into MIT and then earning a Harvard Ph.D. in economics. All his life Gruber was certainly told he was brilliant, destined for great things. But Gruber, blessed with a high IQ, was cursed by possessing not a smidgen of humility or common sense.

And so, over the past week, Americans have watched Jonathan Gruber, PhD go from Democratic star and savant to the man no one has ever heard of. Of course, if you rely on network news for your information, right about now you're scratching your head, asking, "Jonathan who?" But that's another story, one we'll leave to Bernie Goldberg and Howie Kurtz.

Do you think Jonathan Gruber is the only government big shot with a very low opinion of the American people? Or is he the one who happened to be the most in need of attention and got caught strutting and preening on camera?

(Excerpt) Read more at billoreilly.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: gruber; obamacare
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1 posted on 11/20/2014 4:28:14 PM PST by Bettyprob
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To: Bettyprob
Perhaps it would be better to call them "A government of Schicklgrubers". "I don't see much future for the Americans ... it's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities ... my feelings against Americanism are feelings of hatred and deep repugnance ... everything about the behaviour of American society reveals that it's half Judaised, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together?" ― Adolf Hitler, Hitler's Secret Conversations, 1941-1944
2 posted on 11/20/2014 4:34:26 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Bettyprob

Bill O’Reilly has a good staff writer for this article.


3 posted on 11/20/2014 4:35:14 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Bettyprob
The Obama Administration:


4 posted on 11/20/2014 4:37:38 PM PST by Slyfox (To put on the mind of George Washington read ALL of Deuteronomy 28, then read his Farewell Address)
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To: marktwain

this was a good article no matter who penned it


5 posted on 11/20/2014 4:38:33 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: Bettyprob
It's not easy getting into MIT and then earning a Harvard Ph.D. in economics.

He must have gone through at least three pairs of kneepads.

6 posted on 11/20/2014 4:38:36 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: CGASMIA68

Yes, it was a good article. I did not mean to demean it, and Bill O’Reilly probably approved it.

It simply seems rather more freedom oriented than I am used to with Bill, so I was a little snarky.

I shall do better in the future.


7 posted on 11/20/2014 4:42:55 PM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Bettyprob

Is that like a Gruber pile?


8 posted on 11/20/2014 4:44:11 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: Bettyprob

Jonathan Gruber, PhD No, rather Johnathan Gruber ASS.


9 posted on 11/20/2014 4:56:45 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Don Corleone

The only people who even know about Gruber are those who strongly oppose 0bama. I have done my own survey at work and the lefty side has never heard of him and don’t know there is a controversy. Guess Gruber is right about the voters for his side.


10 posted on 11/20/2014 5:11:23 PM PST by MtnClimber (Take a look at my FR home page for Colorado outdoor photos!)
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To: Bettyprob

if you get here were all equal...Obama is crazy


11 posted on 11/20/2014 5:16:19 PM PST by Understand the stimulus
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To: Bettyprob

The one thing that everyone needs to make note of, is that democRATS will use you when it is good for them - look at how they gushed about how smart Gruber was back when we had to pass it so we can see what is in it. (BTW, has anyone personally challenged Pelosi on that one? HELL NO, NO BALLS). Now notice they all have distanced themselves from him. Barack was even splitting words about his employment - not a member of his staff. No better than Clinton trying to define what is, is.


12 posted on 11/20/2014 5:18:33 PM PST by Cyclone59 (Where are we going, and what's with the handbasket?)
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To: Cyclone59

How does this eo get funded?


13 posted on 11/20/2014 5:45:15 PM PST by bicyclerepair (Ft. Lauderdale FL (zombie land). TERM LIMITS ... TERM LIMITS)
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To: Bettyprob

The Old Media keeps telling us that Joathan Gruber is an extremely intelligent man. After all, he went to Harvard and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
But think about it: Joseph Goebbles was an extremely intelligent man, too. In fact he was a bona-fide genius, and the power behind the entire Nazi regime. And he was also a bitter, unhealthy little man with a warped personality and gender identification issues. The kind of man that you would never leave alone with your children.
There’s a big difference between being “smart” and being wise. Neither Jonothan Gruber or Joseph Goebbles were wise men. They are instead the epitome of the ivory tower educated fools.


14 posted on 11/20/2014 5:45:29 PM PST by jespasinthru (Proud member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Bettyprob

Something I think everyone misses - even me, because I read this point in a post somewhere (and I unfortunately can’t remember where or by whom), is that the people Gruber was referring to as stupid were the DEMOCRATS.

Remember, no Republican voted for Obamacare, and Republican and Conservative voters were up in arms over it. Gruber fooled none of them. The people Gruber fooled were the useful idiot Democrat voters. The same people who are now scratching their empty heads and going into shock because their health insurance has quadrupled, or because they can’t get any at all. THOSE are the people Gruber had to fool, to get their votes and political support - and he got them.

Because he’s right - they’re stupid.


15 posted on 11/20/2014 7:04:56 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: jespasinthru
Gruber, Goebbles, what's the difference?


16 posted on 11/20/2014 7:22:41 PM PST by garjog (Obama: bringing joy to the hearts of Terrorists everywhere.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
Perhaps it would be better to call them "A government of Schicklgrubers".
I prefer “Grubercrats.” An apellation I would apply not only to Democrats but to journalists; there is no difference. Any more than there is a difference between a scientist who claims to know that CO2 is going to disastrously change the climate and Gruber claiming to know that Obamacare was a positive step for America.

17 posted on 11/20/2014 7:29:40 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Bettyprob

Gruber: high, nasal voice, pressured, rapid speech. Sounds like a manic Asperger’s patient.


18 posted on 11/20/2014 10:01:08 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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As the esteemed Dr Carson opined: Obamacare was never about health care; it was about government control and wealth redistribution.

Clearly---Gruber was handed the Marxist dream plan FIRST. Then Obama bribed money-hungry Gruber w/ $400,000 hefty tax dollars to invent a healthcare model that he, and lock-stepping Dems, could sell to gullible Americans.

PROGRESSIVE POISON The so-called "Cadillac tax" was part of the Obama/Gruber conspiracy designed: (1) to destroy wealthy insurance companies......targets of Progressive virulent hatred, and, (2) to deny end-of-life care to the elderly....deplored by Progressive Poisoners in our midst.

Other Progressive Poisons: healthcare rationing, pulling $750 million out of Medicare, death panels....... and the Marxist Dream Triumphant: decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth (a longtime Progressive bugaboo); grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to you.

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Gruber delivered Progressive Poison in spades: The preening, duplicitous Gruber---the embodiment of cockamamie far-left thinking---believed it was his moral duty to lie, deceive and collude w/ the US govt......so that these revolting ideas could be imposed on "sub-mental defectives' taking up valuable space in their Utopian America.

Loyal foot-soldier Gruber, in obeisance to the Marxist dream, invented mechanisms to serve Obama's Marxist obsession w/ wealth transfer---as candidate Obama told Joe the Plumber---his plan was to redistribute the wealth:

(1) throwing Americans off affordable health plans
while assuring them they could "keep their plans,"

(2) nationalizing 1/6 of the US economy,

3) installing IPAB's (healthcare rationing),

(4) decimating intergenerational transfers of wealth a longtime Progressive bugaboo;
via Obamacare, grandma/pa's holdings go to the govt---not to you,

(5) pulling $750 billion out of Medicare (another Progressive irritant---giving the elderly healthcare),

(6) drug-rationing---death panels,

(8) outright abandoning seniors and the chronically ill,

(9) transferring wealth from healthy young Americans to subsidize healthcare for others.

Obama organized Democrats into a lock-stepping cheerleading squad to force the Progressive Poison down the throats of recalcitrant Americans.

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Vladimir Lenin / 1945 pamphlet

“Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.”

19 posted on 11/21/2014 5:21:05 AM PST by Liz
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The fraudulent methods used to package Obamacare are a clue as to how Obama was packaged as a candidate——except his handlers effectively papered-over his Progressive Poison.

Poison he adminstered to horrified Americans when they were lulled into complacency.....congratulating themselves for being so great a country-—they could elect a black man to high office.


20 posted on 11/21/2014 5:26:22 AM PST by Liz
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