Oops!...[Obamacare author] Gruber Did It Again [says subsidies only apply to state exchanges]

"... if your governor doesn’t set up an Exchange, you’re losing hundreds of millions of dollars of tax credits... "

Poor Gruber, the main author of Obamacare law: This arrogant SOB got caught with his pants down not once but twice, and now he is trying to talk his way out of it and trying to save Obamacare at the same time. It was no typo error. Highly smart people like Gruber don't make typo errors.

1. Grubers: We have all met Grubers in our lives.

2. They believe that they are the smartest persons in the room.

3 No mistakes: But the main thing about them is this: They believe that they don't make mistakes like us ordinary humans, or they believe that they rarely make mistakes.

4. My point is this: Gruber did not make a mistake when he talked about how only State exchanges could apply for Obamacare subsidies, because he said it at least twice. He knew exactly what he was saying. He knew exactly what the law said, because he wrote it. No typo error or excuse for Gruber. No "I was heavily medicated when i wrote it."

5.We also know that the law went through several revisions and proofreadings before it was finally accepted. So there is strong proof that what we see in the law is exactly what Gruber and Obama wanted in the law. Sorry, Gruber, but you messed up bigtime. So be it.

6. Since he wrote the law, I bet that he is one of the few persons who has actually read every word over and over. He probably even memorized the whole damn thing.

7. I can hear know-it-all Gruber defending himself:"Who are you going to believe, me or your own lying eyes?"

8. I say this to Gruber and his partner in crime Obama: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

Even if Mr. Gruber had worded the ~~Obamacare~~ Democratcare law in Congress's favor, please consider the following.

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

As mentioned in related threads, regardless what activist justices and the corrupt media want everybody to think about the constitutionality of Democratcare, it remains that the Supreme Court had historically clarified that the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly grant Congress the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate public healthcare purposes. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from case opinions.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress. [emphases added]” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass.” —Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphasis added] beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.

And for those federal Democratic and RINO lawmakers who argue that if the Constitution doesn’t say that they can’t do something then they can do it, the Supreme Court has addressed that foolish thinking too. The Supremes have clarified that powers not delegated by the states to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, are prohibited to the feds.

”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So if Mr. Gruber wants Democratcare to work then he needs to do the following. He needs to encourage Congress to propose a healthcare amendement to the Constitution to the states. And if the states choose to ratify Mr. Gruber's amendment, then Congress will have the specific power that it has always needed to establish Democratcare and Mr. Gruber will be a hero.

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