Posted on 11/13/2014 11:15:24 AM PST by Kaslin
So Jonathan Gruber thinks the American people are stupid, does he?
Gruber is a complete nobody to most Americans, but his face should be on a Most Wanted poster in every Post Office.
He was one of the chief architects and cheerleaders for ObamaCare, aka the fraudulent Affordable Care Act that Republicans should be working overtime right now to repeal, not fix or reform.
Gruber exploded into the news cycle this week because of some things he said publicly last year about how Democrats were able to slip ObamaCare past the trusting citizenry.
In appearances in Philadelphia and St. Louis in 2013, Gruber was caught on video admitting ObamaCare passed because its architects deliberately made its funding mechanism confusing and took advantage of the "stupid" American public.
Gruber openly - and shamelessly - described the methods he and the administration's co-conspirators in Congress used.
"This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes," he admitted.
"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the 'stupidity of the American voter' or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical to getting the thing to pass."
Of course, this is exactly what conservatives have been charging for years - that ObamaCare was a liberal Big Government con game.
Gruber tried to get off the hook, claiming his comments were "off the cuff." But as he was appearing on MSNBC to apologize for his foolish honesty, a second video surfaced from 2013 in which he also called the public stupid.
Now on one point, I'll agree with Gruber.
The American public - or at least a majority of American voters - was real stupid in 2008 and especially in 2012 when it put Obama in charge of the world's most important country for eight years.
But the public can't be blamed for ObamaCare, which was all false promises and lies.
Thanks to the deceit of Democrats in Washington and the soft coverage of the Obama health plan by the friendly liberal media, ObamaCare became law before anyone knew what was really in it or what it would really cost.
But once the American public was presented with the bill for ObamaCare, they weren't so "stupid" anymore.
As they began to understand how awful Obama's healthcare reform was, and how badly they were lied to, they got pretty smart real fast.
They began throwing out the Democrat bums in the House and Senate who passed ObamaCare. Last Tuesday's election results were proof that Americans aren't as stupid as the liberals who lie to them think.
When they get the truth from their government and the media, Americans show they're a lot brighter than dishonest technocrats like Gruber.
Now it's up to Republicans to provide the kind of leadership the country needs to recover from the Obama Recession.
The GOP has less than two years to prove to the American people it's qualified and deserving of taking control of Washington.
It better get its internal act together, unclog the Reid law-jam in the Senate and rise to the challenge - starting yesterday.
If Republicans do it right, the American people will show how smart they really are by putting a conservative in the White House in 2016.
I’m a Groober
You’re a Groober
He’s a Groober too!
Trivia: What TV commercial from way back inspired this?
Dr. Pepper.
Stupid is passing a bill without reading it.
Too bad this didn’t come out about a week before the election. Dang! ;)
If the American people aren’t stupid, why would be have Clinton elected twice and Obama elected twice? I guess we can blame it on the media. NOT
Yeah, this might have caused conservatives who didn't vote to stomp their feet very loudly. And then stay home from the polls anyway. /s
".....In the Vermont 2011 video shot by TrueNorthReports.com and sent to Watchdog.org on Thursday, Jonathan Gruber appears before the Vermont House Health Care Committee to present recommendations for a universal, publicly financed health care program. The recommendations were part of the 2011 “Hsiao Report” submitted to the Legislature by economist William C. Hsiao and co- written by Jonathan Gruber.
As Gruber sits there, listening (mentally preparing himself for the kill), the committee chair reads a comment from a Vermonter who expresses concern that the plan crafted by Gruber---an MIT economist---might lead to “ballooning costs, increased taxes and bureaucratic outrages,” among other things.
After hearing the Vermonter’s worries, the disdainful Gruber responds in his now-familiar derogatory manner: “Was this written by my adolescent children by any chance?”
The remark was met with uproarious laughter.
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Contrary to Gruber’s snarky insult, the comment was not written by an adolescent. “It was actually written by a former senior policy adviser in the White House who knew something about health care systems,” said John McClaughry, a two-term Vermont state senator and adviser to President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.
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AFTERMATH In frantic damage control, many "tolerant and compassionate" liberals have reflexively indulged their despotic inclinations (reminiscent of Josef Stalin's purges) and are trying to “disappear” Jonathan Gruber.
But the damaging Gruber videos keep popping up. The preening self-serving Gruber loved nothing better than to show-off his intellectual superiority, gesticulating wildly, as a camera clicked away.
The University of Pennsylvania has now pulled the original video of Gruber’s remarks (in which he disses Americans as stupid), from its website.
No doubt if it were possible, Democratic staffers, Politburo-style, would be scrubbing Gruber from photographs.
Within hours of Nancy Pelosi’s asserting she certainly didn't know who the cretin Gruber was ---bloggers had unearthed her earlier comments.
In the throes of "writing the bill" Nancy is caught on video, uttering Gruber's name, recommending him as a dependable “healthcare expert” for Obamacare.
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