Issa calls Gruber to testify before Oversight

thehill.com ^ | Nov. 21, 2014 | Sarah Ferris

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The House Oversight Committee is asking embattled former ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber to testify at a hearing next month on the “transparency failures” of the administration’s healthcare law.

Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter to Gruber on Thursday, about two weeks after videos surfaced in which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor suggested that a "lack of transparency" and the "stupidity of the American voter" helped Congress pass the Affordable Care Act.

The chairman also invited Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whose own investigation found the Obama administration had inflated its enrollment numbers by about 400,000 people, helping to lift it past the much-touted 7 million goal. “The American people deserve honesty, transparency and respect from those who forced the federal government into their healthcare,” wrote Issa in a statement Friday.

“I expect Mr. Gruber and Administrator Tavenner to testify publicly next month about the arrogance and deceptions surrounding the passage and implementation of ObamaCare,” he added.

The hearing will take place Dec. 9, the last week of the lame-duck Congress, in what would likely be the outgoing chairman’s last Oversight hearing.

When the committee’s findings on the misreported ObamaCare enrollment numbers were made public Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the error was unintentional.

But Issa remained deeply suspicious and said in a statement: “The claim that this was only accident stretches credulity.”

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The chairman also invited Marilyn Tavenner, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), whose own investigation found the Obama administration had inflated its enrollment numbers by about 400,000 people, helping to lift it past the much-touted 7 million goal.

The corruption and grubering is dizzying.

[samadams2000]

The toothless tiger roars again.

[ClearCase_guy]

I expect Gruber to make a long and impassioned speech before congress, and then plead the Fifth and refuse to answer any questions.

[InterceptPoint]

“I expect Mr. Gruber and Administrator Tavenner to testify publicly next month about the arrogance and deceptions surrounding the passage and implementation of ObamaCare,” he added.

Good luck with that. I suspect Mr. Gruber already has plans to be out of the country in December.

[Liz]

LET'S CONNECT THE DOTS---The salient point is this: Gruber acting as an independent researcher is one thing--- but Gruber consorting w/ many people in govt figuring out ways to lie in order to dupe the tax-paying public is a CONSPIRACY.

POINTS TO PONDER:

<><> (1) WH sign-in sheets show Gruber went there at least nineteen times.

<><>(2) Gruber, himself, talked about Obama being in the room when the Cadillac tax was invented.

<><> (3) Based on his Obamacare experiences, Gruber took tax dollars from several states to set up Obamacare exchanges....and earned millions of dollars doing so.

<><>(4) Nancy Pelosi is caught on-tape citing Gruber as a reliable source.

<><> (5) Gruber was there when Hillarycare was developed.

<><>(6) Another Gruber confession involved a conspiracy w/ Teddy Kennedy--- outright govt fraud by manipulating Medicare for some $500 million to secretly finance Romneycare.

<><>(7) A former adviser to then-HHS Secy Kathleen Sebelius told the NYT Gruber was on-board whie the govt was formulating the plan.

<><> (8) According BarackObama.com 2012, President Obama's official website, Jon Gruber "helped write Obamacare....w/ specific quotes from Obama tying Mitt Romney to ObamaCare...saying that "RomneyCare" was the model for Obamacare.

<><> (9) The Congressional Budget Office Effectively Used Gruber’s Model to Score Obamacare.

In sum, the makings of a conpiracy are documented---Gruber had influence over the CBO, the White House, and Congress alike. It's hard to overestimate his importance; Gruber's role was central to the efforts of President Obama and his Democratic allies to shove Obamacare down an unwilling citizenry’s throat.

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I'M SURE VALERIE KNOWS (/SNIX)---Obama is downplaying Gruber's role, claiming he had no part in passing healthcare.

But if Gruber was NOT the Obamacare architect---then Gruber took money under false pretenses and should be prosecuted for govt fraud. He took tax dollars from the feds and state govts "posing" as an expert.

TAXPAYERS DEMAND CONGRESS GET ANSWERS WRT GRUBER'S CASHING-IN ON THE BACKS OF "STUPID" TAXPAYERS

Four U.S. states and the federal government (read taxpayers) have padded Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber's wallet to the tune of $5.9 million since 2000, including millions connected to his work on the Affordable Care Act.

We need investigations---to see how our tax dollars changed hands---and landed into Gruber's pockets. The disdainful, preening Gruber was paid tax dollars to spin his web of lies...and to reiterate his contempt for taxpayers who are footing the bills.

Even more disturbing is the massive, multi-billion-dollar slush fund the self-serving Gruber hid from "stupid" Americans in Obamacare. Gruber made dam sure it was kept hidden from us stupid taxpayers.

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The Untraceable $8 Billion ObamaCare PR Budget---truly govt fraud at its finest. Egged on by Pelosi, Democrats slavishly voted for Obamacare by an historic straignt-party line vote. But not one Democrat told Americans about Obamacare's Section 4002---which mandates an $8B untraceable fund to "promote" Obamacare (apparently b/c Boobamba had so little confidence in his signature legislation).

THE PAYOFF--WHO GETS THE MONEY? In 2010 Taxpayers are extorted $500 million, in 2011, $750 million, 2012, $1 billion, 2013, $1.25 billion, 2014, $1.5 billion, and, in 2015 and on, $2 billion

<><> Where is all that money going?

<><> Was cashing-in the incentive in getting the thing passed.

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Taxpayers demand to know ---- why Gruber/Obama/Pelosi didnt reveal that Obamacare contains a multi-billion dollar slush fund?

Exactly who is cashing in?

The sound of West Wing wire-transfers to offshore banks is almost palpable.

[Diogenesis]

EXEMPT Issa and corrupt EXEMPT Cummings
GAVE the “green light”
after they deliberately allowed FAST*Furious,
and flagged the end of America
by then also ignoring the IRS Attacks.

[Principled]

While some say “nothing will come of this - this is useless - stupid Repubs - etc”...

Gruber will get up there and continue to be the condescending type of this administration. It will continue to color 0bamacare and this regime in general as elitists who do not follow the rules and his “testimony” will show that he doesn’t think the rules are not for him. It will breed more disdain for the regime.

Indeed, the weight of the lies is crushing 0bama’s admin. It just keeps crushing them.

I am enjoying his destruction.

[GeronL]

yep

[bigbob]

And a Sternly Worded memo will be the result. Issa is useless.

[VanDeKoik]

“The toothless tiger roars again.”

First we demand that Gruber goes before Congress.

Then we yawn when they do?

[Timber Rattler]

So Issa, why is Lois Lerner not in jail...

[PROCON]

why is Lois Lerner not in jail...

That'a question for Trey Gowdy.

[KarlInOhio]

Squirrel!

Issa goes to chase another investigation before completing his last one. Will someone please sneak him some Ritalin?

[exnavy]

And Jon Gruber was heard to utter “oh crap”.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Time for Barry’s FBI/CIA/DHS/DOJ/NSA to get their manilla folders out to blackmail ISSA into INACTION with.. This is all for show to placate their Republican constituents.. Perhaps Gruber should talk to Lerner in order to learn how to commit MULTIPLE FELONIES INCLUDING PERJURY AND WALK AWAY A FREE MAN.

[Kevin in California]

“Dog meet Pony...Pony, meet dog!”

[CivilWarBrewing]

HoldER, LernER, GrubER, TavennER,.. ERRRRRRR!!!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

BUMP!

[resistance]

Obama is going to create so much chaos with the help of the MSM with immigration, socializing the internet, national minimum wage efforts, etc. Our media’s lack of attention span will play right into his plan for the next two years. Prepare to be assimilated!

[nesnah]

HUGE MISTAKE! This Gruber clown has left more uncensored, accurate (from the Left’s perspective) evidence that simply needs to be played over and over and over and over again. Then play it a few more times.

Does Issa really think he’s going to say anything even remotely as inflaming as he already has after he’s been extensively coached?

Stupid issa as stupid does....