NEW DECEPTION: Gruber cited increases; candidate Obama vowed savings (Gruber got $200K)

washingtontimes.com ^ | 11/24/14

[Liz]

(Gruber) Predicted massive health insurance cost increases for Wisconsin residents....as candidate Obama campaigned for reelection on a promise that his plan would lower premiums.

The 2011 Gruber study was largely ignored by candidate Obama: “So when you hear about Obamacare — I don’t mind the name because I really do care.” the president declared in Cincinnati July 2011. "Once we've fully implemented ACA, you’re going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you’re an employee at a big company you can get right now — which means your premiums will go down.”

The contrast between the Obama’s optimistic rhetoric and Gruber’s private warnings is certain to attract new attention from the Republican-led Congress, which wants to know whether there was an effort by the administration to deceive the public about the true consequences of the law as Mr. Gruber suggested in recent videotapes.

“Overall I think health care reform is a great thing for Wisconsin, ” Gruber said.....then earlier this month, videotapes were leaked where he refers to the “stupidity of the American voter,” saying the lack of transparency of the bill was a “huge political advantage.”

WH House Press Secy Josh Earnest said that Gruber only advised the administration. “....it’s pretty evident from these videos that he doesn’t have nearly as much insight as it relates to politics or communications or legislative strategy,” Mr. Earnest said of Mr. Gruber.

Mr. Gruber received about $400,000 from HHS for his work on health care computer models....as well as 1000's more from other federal agencies. Gruber was a frequent WH guest, meeting with senior officials some 19 more times, and the president himself, visitor logs show.

[Liz]

Gowdy and Chafetz also need to look at how Democrats sold their votes for BIG BUCKS---there's the Corhusker Kickback and Mary Landrieu's infamous "Louisiana Purchase."

......according to Congressional Quarterly, both Obama and his odious signature legislation, Obamacare, are hugely unpopular in Louisiana........ Landrieu cast the deciding vote for that law....but there's more....

Some observers note that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare "after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the aye votes of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats"....with a huge pile of money still unaccounted for.

The most unsavory was Landrieu's $4.3 billion "Louisisana Purchase."

THE PAPER TRAIL IS HUGE Sen Landrieu (Scumocrat-LA) sold her aye vote in what Forbes Magazine dubbed "The 'Louisiana Purchase" that included a massive $4.3 Billion to Landrieu

FORBES REPORTED the Democrats’ nailed Landrieu’s support for Obamacare w/ a greenback bribe. Landrieu, critics believe, pledged her vote in exchange for some $200 million more additional federal funds for Louisiana. Except that, due to a drafting error, the law ended up giving Louisiana $4.3 billion: more than twenty times the assigned amount. MORE HERE http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml

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BACKSTORY In the fall of 2009, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was trying to get the necessary 60 Dimocrat votes to pass the Affordable Care Act. He needed every Dim on board, which gave waffling senators a great deal of leverage. In Landrieu's case, she connivingly saw that selling her aye vote could get her maybe $200 million federal dollars. Obama complied. Reid chalked up another vote for Obamacare. But not the measly $200 million but $4.3 billon was attached to the Obamacare bill earmarked for Landrieu.

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How $4.3 billion to Landrieu was calculatedly attached to the Obamacare bill, and how Obama and Reid failed to catch and fix it, is yet another indictment of the Obamacare atrocity.

The $4.3 billion handoff to Landrieu should be investigated as an indication of how EVERY Democrat came to vote for Obamacare....and how tax dollars were laundered to help elect more lock- stepping Democrats.

[Travis McGee]

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING posts BUMP!