So what do the Democrats do when one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act admits that they pretty much had to lie to get the bill passed? No, they don't blame Bush...not this time. And what do the Democrats do when this same architect refers to them in terms of "the stupidity of the American voter"? Well, they blame the messenger Rich Weinstein. Who is this guy anyway?
Well, here's the story. Rich Weinstein, described as a "mildmannered investment adviser" from Philly, went on a mission to figure out why his insurance policy had been cancelled and his new improved ACA policy premiums had dramatically increased.
Did he just admit that the bill was purposely written is such a way that the CBO wouldn't be able score it as a tax? And did he just admit it was the lack of transparency that was the political key to getting the bill passed? Well, yes and they could do it because of the "stupidity of the American voter or whatever".
Needless to say, this video hit the Web-verse and has gone viral. Mr. Gruber realized he had been caught, so he went on Ronan Farrow's MSNBC show (the least watched show on TV) to explain that he spoke "off the cuff" and his remarks were "innappropriate". LINK
Mr. Weinstein says he has more video to refute the claim that Mr. Gruber's remarks were "off the cuff" gaffes. But Weinstein's over-arching issue was how did he, just a regular guy looking for information, manage to find all of this and not one journalist even tried? And I have to say he is right. With all the high-minded Woodward and Bernstein wannabe's out there looking for the gotcha moment, why didn't they track down these videos?
Though beside the point right now, the Supreme Court case that Farrow and Gruber are referring has been brought by several states that hinges on a small phrase that says "people qualify for tax credits to help pay insurance premiums when they buy a plan on an exchange “established by the state.” The dispute is whether the federal government can subsidize insurance when a state opts out of creating their own state run exchanges and whether that phrase were just a "typo" as Prof. Gruber describes them or a huge flaw that kills the federal exchanges and possibly the ACA.
And as an final point: When will it dawn on the Democrats and liberals that the stupid American voters of which Mr. Gruber is referring is them?
So here we are. Any comments or would you rather look at videos of animals doing cute things?
Well, here's the story. Rich Weinstein, described as a "mildmannered investment adviser" from Philly, went on a mission to figure out why his insurance policy had been cancelled and his new improved ACA policy premiums had dramatically increased.
“When Obama said 'If you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period'—frankly, I believed him,” says Weinstein. “He very often speaks with qualifiers. When he said 'period,' there were no qualifiers. You can understand that when I lost my own plan, and the replacement cost twice as much, I wasn’t happy. So I’m watching the news, and at that time I was thinking: Hey, the administration was not telling people the truth, and the media was doing nothing!” - BloombergMr. Weinstein searched hours and hours of videos of "David Cutler, Zeke Emanuel, Jonathan Gruber and people like that" and listened to what they had to say. All he did was listen. Then he hit on this clip from ACA architect and MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber from a UPenn conference in September of 2013...
Did he just admit that the bill was purposely written is such a way that the CBO wouldn't be able score it as a tax? And did he just admit it was the lack of transparency that was the political key to getting the bill passed? Well, yes and they could do it because of the "stupidity of the American voter or whatever".
Needless to say, this video hit the Web-verse and has gone viral. Mr. Gruber realized he had been caught, so he went on Ronan Farrow's MSNBC show (the least watched show on TV) to explain that he spoke "off the cuff" and his remarks were "innappropriate". LINK
Mr. Weinstein says he has more video to refute the claim that Mr. Gruber's remarks were "off the cuff" gaffes. But Weinstein's over-arching issue was how did he, just a regular guy looking for information, manage to find all of this and not one journalist even tried? And I have to say he is right. With all the high-minded Woodward and Bernstein wannabe's out there looking for the gotcha moment, why didn't they track down these videos?
Though beside the point right now, the Supreme Court case that Farrow and Gruber are referring has been brought by several states that hinges on a small phrase that says "people qualify for tax credits to help pay insurance premiums when they buy a plan on an exchange “established by the state.” The dispute is whether the federal government can subsidize insurance when a state opts out of creating their own state run exchanges and whether that phrase were just a "typo" as Prof. Gruber describes them or a huge flaw that kills the federal exchanges and possibly the ACA.
And as an final point: When will it dawn on the Democrats and liberals that the stupid American voters of which Mr. Gruber is referring is them?
So here we are. Any comments or would you rather look at videos of animals doing cute things?
9 comments:
You probably answered your own question. The reason they didn't "find" it is they were in on the lack of transparency. If american voters learn anything from the Obama years it would be to not trust the media to be the fourth estate.
Good points, Bev!
And now we have three seperate occasions where Gruber has said this. Apparently, he was quite proud of himself for being so smart.
Of course, Gruber wasn't as smart as he thought, but the major networks aren't covering it as of yet so it looks like they got his back, so far.
Those who defend Hans Gruber's stupid little brother are no better than he is and, no doubt think they are smarter than everyone else as well.
This illustrates, once again that leftists cannot ever be honest about their real agenda, hence they must hide it.
Journalists are supposed to expose this sort of sleaze but many will not when it hurts their ideology.
Like Goober, the ends justifies the means to them.
Now where is the cute animal videos? :)
Ronan Farrow had that "I'm a deer in the headlights look." How can so many Democrats be so stupid? How?
Critch - How could so many Democrats be so stupid? That's easy - Racism. They are all a bunch of stupid, low attention-span, vegan-eating, racists who were blinded by their own need to prove how liberal they are by only seeing a Black Man in the White House and voting Surface over Substance...or something like that. Hey, it's THEIR turn to be called racists for a change.
Koshcat - Of course they were "in on it"! Gruber admits that right there in his own words. But it wasn't that opaque! We saw right through it...oh, yeah, but then we READ it before we DIDN'T VOTE for it...
USS Ben - I don't think that it's they don't want to be honest. They just can't bring themselves to have to admit that Sarah Palin was right. That would mean that they are more stupid than Sarah Palin whom they regard as the most stupid woman to walk the Earth.
And because you wanted to see a video of cute animals, here's one of baby elephants being clumsy - LINK
Thanks Bev.
The video you chose is is even more fun and nostagiac to me because my third ship, the USS Camden (AOE-2) used the Baby Elephant Walk song as our theme song.
We were known as the Raging Pachyderm, being a fast, combat supply ship. :)
The media didn't find the video because the liberals didn't want to make Obama look bad and the conservatives all want to be Rush or Coulter (highly paid commentators) rather than shoe leather reporters.
It's too bad the Gruber video didn't come out until now, but it can be a factor in 2016. It's my pet theory that any Democrat not named Edwards would have beat McCain in 2008 and I think that the Democrats have put themselves in a similar position for 2016.
Admittedly I thought the same thing in 2012, but Republicans worked hard to lose that one (47%, sluts and rape). In 2014 people with diarrhea of the mouth are Democrats.
Anthony, I agree with you 100% and I don't think it is just a "theory". The Dems could have run a head of lettuce in 2008 and still win. McCain was just the fall guy. And ironically so was Hillary Clinton. Because it is becoming clear that they learned NOTHING from the outcome of 2014 election, Obama and the Dems will keep to their present course. Instead of dumping Reid, they kept him as Minority Leader. And it looks like the House Dems will keep Pelosi (they have to because if they don't she will scream "SEXISM"..). Obama is making a fool of himself declaring he will continue to go it alone even when McConnell and Boehner have been downright "statesman-like" after the Republican rout...
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