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| GOP's anti-Obamacare push gains new momentum in wake of Gruber video |
| 2014-11-14 |
| [Washington Post] The Republican Party's ardent campaign against President B.O.'s health-care law gained new momentum Wednesday as politicians reacted angrily to assertions by an architect of the policy that it was crafted in a deliberately deceptive way in order to pass Congress. On both sides of the Capitol, leading conservatives said they may call economist Jonathan Gruber to testify about his remarks, which were made last year and surfaced this week in a video on social media. In the video, Gruber suggests that the administration's signature health-care legislation passed in part because of the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" over its funding mechanisms. "The strategy was to hide the truth from the American people," said Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who is slated to chair the Senate Budget Committee next year. "That is a threat to the American republic." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 You'd think this guy didn't exist with the MSM. You might ask: Who was John Galt Gruber? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-11-14 12:48 |
| #5 The White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation Including Nancy Pelosi's office. The "Gruber" that her Congressional website had mentioned. The same "Gruber" who Nancy Pelosi said she never heard of. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-11-14 12:30 |
| #4 Remember, Gruber got his start from... Mitt Romney. That's right, he was instrumental in creating Romneycare. March 2012, NY Times bragging on Gruber: Academic Built Case for Mandate in Health Care Law Mr. Gruber's position as an adviser to the influential Congressional Budget Office also left him perfectly positioned to advise the White House on health reform. "The most important arbiter of everything was the C.B.O.," said Neera Tanden, who was a senior adviser for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services. The C.B.O.'s assessment of a bill's efficacy and costs strongly influences political debate, but the office does not publicly reveal how it calculates those numbers. "We knew the numbers he gave us would be close to where the C.B.O. was likely to come out," Ms. Tanden said. She was right. After Mr. Gruber helped the administration put together the basic principles of the proposal, the White House lent him to Capitol Hill to help Congressional staff members draft the specifics of the legislation. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-11-14 12:20 |
| #3 Fifth? I'm beginning to agree with those commenters who appreciate the gentleman's honesty, though he thought he was speaking among friends. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-11-14 12:08 |
| #2 a fifth Gruber video came out today |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-11-14 12:05 |
| #1 Get this twerp in from of a house meat eating committee, crucify, then think, and think some more on how to fix. A flat repeal is unlikely and foot shootery in any case. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-11-14 07:34 |