For years, Harvard’s “experts” on health economics and policy have advised presidents and Congress on how to provide health benefits to the nation at a reasonable cost. Those remedies will now be applied to the Harvard faculty and they are PISSED.
In other words, Harvard faculty was all HECK YES to Obamacare higher costs for US, but all WTF NO WAY to Obamacare higher costs for THEM. Where oh where did I put that teensy weensy violin?
Fave tweets:
Obamacare is all fun and games until you’re forced to accept it.
They thought their rules would only apply to the peasants.
In the future, all health care reforms should be tested on Harvard “experts” before being foisted upon your family.
Experimental meds too.
Unfortunately for @Harvard profs, karma is a pre-existing condition not covered by #Obamacare.
Hey, Haavaahd, embrace the suck!!
What does it say about Harvard that the faculty there actually thought their health care costs would not go up, but this little sales assistant, who didn’t graduate college, knew they would?
MUST SEE: A powerful, personal moment from Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis at today’s House hearings during which Jonathan Gruber called his “stupidity of the American voter” comments “glib and thoughtless.”
Gruber credited its passage to “the stupidity of American voters” but the only people who got to vote on it were in Congress and the only people in Congress who voted for it were Democrats.
The Dem spin was high-larious!
Ben Waxman – A biased press can make a good law look bad.
Phil Kerpen – THAT DARN CONSERVATIVE MEDIA!
Ben Waxman – Corporate media is more conservative than the right would like to admit/
Clay Johanson – Pls explain how that applies to NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, AP. We’ll wait.
Andrews Dad – What color is the sky in your world?
In Brisbane Australia, President Obama clumsily told Fox News’ Ed Henry that he ‘just heard about’ the controversy over Jonathan Gruberwhom he described as ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’
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Apparently, he doesn’t talk with his press secretary, who answered questions about Gruber earlier this week.
So the White House paid “some adviser who never worked on our staff” $400,000 a year for what, exactly?
“I just heard about this” Obama. IRS targeting conservatives, DOJ spying on journalists, Gruber, Veterans Affairs scandal, Fast and Furious.
Ok, *now* it’s an official Obama scandal.
“Some adviser” Gruber visited White House officials 19 times; on July 20, 2009, with Obama in person.
Sergeant Schultz, “I know nothing.”
Top Obama adviser, David Axelrod, has chosen the Monty Python spin
Fox Airs New Gruber Video: Voters ‘Too Stupid to Understand the Difference’ [3:43]
Nov 2014: FOX News’ Megyn Kelly reports on the Gruber videos. Note how in the second Gruber video he is wearing a microphone. So much for his “off the cuff remark” spin.
“This bill was written explicitly so CBO would not score the mandate as taxes.” Yet when the bill landed at the Supreme Court, the Democrats were suddenly very much on board with, “Yes, it’s a tax.” Because if it wasn’t a tax, then Congress had no right to pass it!
“Credible, unbiased sources” … NOT! The administration paid Gruber $400,000 to pimp the bill. Obama used Gruber’s fakey language to “prove” the 2013 Lie of the Year that “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.”
3 Jonathan Gruber Videos: Americans “Too Stupid to Understand” [2:08]
“Clever exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” Note again that two of these three show him speaking while walking around in front of chalk boards with microphones. The backgrounds are similar, but his ties and microphones are different, so it’s clearly two separate presentations.
2014: Pelosi denies knowing who Jonathan Gruber is [2:04]
“His comments are a year old.” So WHAT?! He was talking about what he had done FIVE years before.
“9.5 million people will have health insurance who didn’t before.” This ignores
the FACT that 5+ million taxpaying American citizens who LOST policies they liked and wanted to keep and/or have had huge hikes in premium and deductibles.
the FACT that a huge percentage of these new enrollees are not taxpayers, are not paying premiums and/or are not even in the US legally,
the FACT that many uninsured Americans (like my husband) still cannot afford a policy, but now are being FINED for not having one!
TRY sneaking into Canada or Mexico and demanding they provide you with free health care. Go ahead, Nancy. Try it. I dare you.
2009: Pelosi tells Americans to read Gruber’s ObamaCare analysis [2:04]
So much for “I don’t know who he is”(at 1:00) …
Jonathan Gruber was used by the Democrats to pimp the bill; what was not revealed was that the man was being PAID by the WH to do so! Democrats knew the bill was horrible; that’s why they had to LIE and CHEAT to get it passed. That’s why Nancy Pelosi once said we had to PASS the bill so we could “find out what’s in it” [:53]
Remember when Obama promised ALL legislation would be online before Congress voted, so Americans could read it and tell their representatives what they thought about it? Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
February 18, 2011: For a real life peek at just how arrogant Leftists are, watch Chairman Mark Larson (D-Burlington) read a letter from a Vermont constituent concerned about a single-payer system and the mockery of that ensues. (Keep in mind that every single thing this constituent cited has been proven again and again wherever single-payer has been tried.) Gruber snarks about the list of concerns: “Was this written by my adolescent children by any chance?” More laughter.
Methinks Fancy Nancy got her metaphors mixed. This wasn’t an ocean wave coming in; it was a great big BYE-BYE, DUMBOCRATS, DON’T LET THE DOOR SMACK YOU ON THE BUTT wave.
But if you must use a tidal metaphor, I think you’ll need to go with something more drastic than “ebb tide” for what happened to Obamacrats … say red tide or severe drought or something like that. Obama did say that his nomination marked the day the oceans would cease to rise. ::snort::
The current Democrat party and leadership has been governing against the will of the people not in conjunction with it. Tuesday night Americans said, “Enough.”
There’s no better example of governing against the will of the American people than the “Affordable Care Act”, aka “ObamaCare.” No poll in America ever placed anything near a majority of Americans in favor of the ACA. Some showed as many as 70% against. Americans never wanted this law, never were in favor of it, pleaded with their representatives not to pass it.
In the two elections held since the passing of that law, twenty-five of the Democrat Senators who voted in favor of the “Affordable Care Act” have been handed their walking papers by the American people — with one more very likely to get hers too in December. Talk about toxic.
All of this damage done by lying through your teeth in order to do it? Not a good way to govern and none of it the Republican’s fault nor the fault of obstructionism. In fact, quite the opposite. Republicans and Tea Partiers tried with all their might to stop the Democrats but were powerless to do so.
Democrats, you voted for it. Your problem isn’t that you couldn’t get your agenda through, it’s that you did.
Cuz voters are stupid and the ends justify the means.
‘Are You Cruel?’ Senator Angus King Loses It on Fox News over Obamacare Video [3:11]
I was going to remark on the paternalistic attitude until I remembered that I didn’t lie to my kids ever, not even when they were toddlers with one syllable vocabularies. I wonder how many of these twerps had parents who did lie to them … A LOT.
Meanwhile, the Left Stream Media has ignored the Gruber story, which is absurd. Journalists used to love nothing better than to zing somebody, anybody, with a candid camera embarrassment. I was surprised to hear that MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski admitted that if it “had it been a Republican, the media would have been exploding.” Has Mika suddenly grown some self-awareness? Hmmm.
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