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Obama Flashback: ‘I’ve Stolen Ideas’ From Jonathan Gruber ‘Liberally’
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11/17/14 | Washington Free Beacon Staff

Posted on 11/17/2014 2:34:24 PM PST by gwgn02

During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had “stolen” ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.

“You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally,” Obama said. “People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.”

Despite Obama’s attempt to distance himself and his unpopular signature health care legislation from Gruber, it is clear that 2006 Obama never anticipated videos of his once-trusted adviser calling American voters ‘stupid’ would surface in 2014.

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KEYWORDS: gruber; grubergate; jonathangruber; obama; obamacare; obamafail; obamagruber; obamagruberquote; obamalied; obamaquotes; obamascandals; obamunism; orwelliannightmare; revisionisthistory; taqiyya
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1 posted on 11/17/2014 2:34:24 PM PST by gwgn02
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To: gwgn02

Disrespecting and laughing at the American public first and foremost.


2 posted on 11/17/2014 2:36:17 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: gwgn02

I don’t think Gruber’s his “dear friend” anymore, unless that great big Michael Corleone smooch on the lips doesn’t mean what I think it means.


3 posted on 11/17/2014 2:39:55 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: gwgn02

This is great. Obamacare is at all-time lows on Gallup, and now we have more proof that not only did Obama lie about Gruber regarding 2010, but the association goes back before his Presidency.


4 posted on 11/17/2014 2:40:01 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: CatOwner

Obama lied about EVERYTHING


5 posted on 11/17/2014 2:41:40 PM PST by gwgn02
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Gruber Who? ~ Obama in Asia recently....


6 posted on 11/17/2014 2:43:33 PM PST by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: gwgn02

No wonder Barry wants to regulate the interwebs. It always busts his phony stories.


7 posted on 11/17/2014 2:44:52 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: gwgn02
Apparently the fraud part was your idea, 0dorkus Minimus.

“The fact that an adviser who was never on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is not a reflection on the actual process that was run,” Obama told reporters

According to Gruber, in his own words, the fraud part of it was 0bama's idea not his.

SMOKING GUN! Gruber Admits Obama Was in Room During Planning of Cadillac Lie

8 posted on 11/17/2014 2:46:46 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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Honestly. What a bunch of a-holes. It’s not even that I disagree vehemently on their policies; they’re just insufferable jerks.


9 posted on 11/17/2014 2:48:28 PM PST by j.havenfarm
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To: DoughtyOne

It’s humorous how the Left Elitists are mocking the “stupid” voters that supported their nefarious designs.


10 posted on 11/17/2014 2:48:32 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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The community organizer just said Gruber had nothing to do with the ACA committee, kinda like Bill Ayres was "just some guy in the neighborhood."

Really, do liberals even believe this clown anymore? It's no wonder we've become a laughingstock and Putin's flying long range bombers off the Gulf of Mexico again.

11 posted on 11/17/2014 2:50:09 PM PST by YankeeReb
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Under the bus, Mr. Gruber, my dear friend.


12 posted on 11/17/2014 2:50:25 PM PST by Texas Songwriter (w)
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To: j.havenfarm

If Reagan had tried 1/100th of what this nut job and his administration have tried, he would have been strung up.

The media short-circuits what should take place when Obama does these things.

And as you say, they are jerks. IMO their policies are bad. Their people make Nixon’s “crooks” look like saints. And as you state, they just come off as aloof jerks.


13 posted on 11/17/2014 2:53:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: Gene Eric
It’s humorous how the Left Elitists are mocking the “stupid” voters that supported their nefarious designs.

Never forget. This travesty was passed on a one-party vote in the dead of night on Christmas Eve. So, the dopes who were played for chumps are not conservatives. Small consolation.

14 posted on 11/17/2014 2:53:27 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: Gene Eric

And yet those stupid people will never even grasp the connection.


15 posted on 11/17/2014 2:54:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The mid-term elections were perfect for him. Now Obama can really lead from behind.)
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To: gwgn02

Once upon a time, a man was as good as his word in America. It was the way of things with neighbors and business dealings.

Once upon a time, a friendly smile meant sincerity, and a hearty wave was common among neighbors passing by.


16 posted on 11/17/2014 2:54:55 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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I am sure he did—I bet he didn’t thing Gruber was so stupid that he said so in public! He never thought Gruber’s Huberis was so great he was above the Law—Needs to go to Jail and his money taken away.


17 posted on 11/17/2014 2:56:42 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: gwgn02

Obama in Australia called Gruber “some adviser”

I did not have healthcare relations with that man, Mr. Gruber.


18 posted on 11/17/2014 3:07:29 PM PST by Ray76 (We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
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“Jon Gruber, my dear friend.”

The mind boggles. ..


19 posted on 11/17/2014 3:09:00 PM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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Notice he says “Jon”, not “Jonathan” , not “Professor Gruber”, not “Mr. Gruber of MIT”.

And this is from 2006, eight years ago.

Yeah, he did not know him....spit.


20 posted on 11/17/2014 3:11:48 PM PST by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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