Six and a half minutes of Jon Gruber being picked up by his own self-regard, and then being mercilessly slammed hard into the ground. …That’s it. That’s what happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d46iFb7C4Yo
Jon Gruber will never work in This Town again.
Now, isn’t this special.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is asking lawmakers not to seat ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber next to Medicare’s top official when the two testify on Capitol Hill next week.
HHS Assistant Secretary for Legislation Jim Esquea wrote to the House Oversight Committee with the request, stating that government witnesses are “almost always afforded an opportunity” to sit alone or with other federal officials.
Continue reading Put ‘HHS Adviser’ on Jon Gruber’s nameplate at the Oversight hearings next week.
Because this tipped your hand:
No eye contact, tho RT @dm_butler: @Barackobama sitting with the man he has never met. . . #Gruber #Obamacare pic.twitter.com/lqZdRu7o3G
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) November 19, 2014
Time to revise and extend those remarks about how you never met the man, Mr. President.
The Internet is an amazing thing.
OOPS!: This *2010* Huffington Post story lays out how Gruber worked closely with Obama to craft Obamacare deceptions http://t.co/BPhLQyogVu
— Rep. Steve Stockman (@SteveWorks4You) November 17, 2014
Moe Lane Continue reading Jane Hamsher to HuffPo to Rep. Steve Stockman to Erick Erickson to me.
John Dickerson of Slate drills down on why Jon Gruber is such an awkward ally for the Obama administration, and hits the nerve:
Before he was causing problems for the Obama administration, the Obama team was using Gruber to unsettle Mitt Romney. In the 2012 campaign, Obama’s camp was claiming that the Massachusetts health care plan was the intellectual model for Obamacare, just as Romney was trying to disavow it. Gruber was essential to this case. In a video produced by the Obama campaign celebrating the anniversary of “Romneycare,” Gruber says, “I helped Gov. Romney develop his health care reform or Romneycare, before going down to Washington to help President Obama develop his national version of that law.” The spot includes old footage of Romney thanking Gruber for his work on the Massachusetts health bill. “The core of the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare and what we did in Massachusetts are identical,” Gruber says. The MIT professor was such an important part of the creation of Obamacare that his association with Romney’s effort proved the link between the two programs. If that involvement in Obamacare was sufficient to condemn Romney in 2012, it’s sufficient enough for Republicans to raise it now over Gruber’s claims about the Affordable Care Act. What’s Gruber for the goose, is Gruber for the gander.
Continue reading A reminder: Jon Gruber was used to attack Romney for Romneycare.
Sorry Jonathan Gruber, you can't shake off the Obamacare deceptions #FullRepeal https://t.co/ZlIKQ25NRE
— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) November 14, 2014
As is some of the epic-level butthurt in some of the responses. But, hey, we’ve all done that. …Yes, even you.
Moe Lane
PS: Always assume cameras. ALWAYS assume cameras.
I don’t know if you have seen Jonathan Gruber of MIT’s analysis of what the comparison is to the status quo versus what will happen in our bill for those who seek insurance within the exchange.
When will these people learn that everyone is recording them, all the time, forever?
Moe Lane
PS: Background:
Pelosi on Gruber: "I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill."
— Sean Sullivan (@WaPoSean) November 13, 2014
PPS: Nancy Pelosi is everything that I could possibly want in a Democratic House Minority Leader.