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Showing posts with label gruber. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gruber. Show all posts

Friday, December 19, 2014

Boehner Is Not The Leader Of The Opposition, He Believes In Big And Bigger Government.

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GOP LEADERSHIP CAUGHT CONSPIRING WITH OBAMA

The election of 2014 proved one thing. America is hungry for change. So much so that they voted out Democrats and Republicans in record numbers.
GOP leadership is still dug in deep, and they know that they only have a short amount of time to inflict as much damage as they can before the incoming class of freshman Republicans stand in their way.
That’s why Boehner and his buddies rushed to push their Omnibus bill through in just a few short hours.
The $1.1 Trillion dollar spending program fully funds amnesty as well as Obamacare, and should raise some serious concerns for every hard working American.
The worst part is these “leaders” have worked together with the White House to make sure that Obama’s pet programs are well funded.
The Guardian writes about this unlikely partnership:
Republicans formed an unlikely alliance with the White House in a late-night scramble to pass a $1.1tn federal budget over the objections of House Democrats, who claim it has been hijacked by Wall Street lobbyists and campaign finance interests.
In dramatic scenes that mirrored the lead-up to the government shutdown of October 2013, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough spent three hours locked in talks with the House Democratic caucus on Thursday night trying to persuade its members to drop their opposition to the so-called “cromnibus” and pleading with them that it was the best deal available.
The one thing you can determine from this is the Republican leadership wants to make it so Obama can advance his agenda. Americans want secure borders and the repeal of Obamacare, and GOP leadership could care less about the wishes and desires of Americans.
Sean Hannity slammed Boehner for his serious missteps.
John “Gruber” Boehner, two days after the election, talking tough on the issue of amnesty. But unfortunately, that is all it was, because, it’s conservatives who feel like they have been burned, as the speaker aligned himself with the president, with Harry Reid, Steny Hoyer, and Joe Biden to pass a spending bill just a short time ago…
John Boehner “Grubered” conservatives tonight and by that, I mean the conservative base in particular. And Michele Bachmann hit the nail on the head; he never would have done this before the election. He has no inspiring vision and to me, he’s everything that’s wrong with Washington. He’s a Democratic Party Lite. He doesn’t have those bold color differences that Reagan talked about. And in my view, he shouldn’t be the speaker. He should be replaced.
This kind of betrayal is one of the worst to have been put on the American people.
It’s disgusting to see what is being done behind closed doors in the name of corporate greed.
The same things are happening consistently in D.C.
One of the other major problems to arise in recent years has to do with the development of alliances between big food and medical companies.
These programs have not only contributed to a rise in disease rates, but also food costs.
If you want to get safer food at 10 cents on the dollar you need to see how easy it can be.

Monday, December 8, 2014

Big Mouth Elitist Gruber Might Be What We Need To Rid Ourselves Of ObamaCrapCare

Politico: GOP's 'Dream Witness' Gruber Could Doom Obamacare

Image: Politico: GOP's 'Dream Witness' Gruber Could Doom Obamacare(Dominick Reuter/Reuters/Landov)
Monday, 08 Dec 2014 12:45 PM
By Drew MacKenzie


Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber faces a GOP grilling when he testifies on Tuesday before the House Oversight Committee conducting an investigation into the controversial Affordable Care Act.

Gruber, who called Americans “stupid” while discussing the healthcare law, will endure a ton of tough questions over his videotaped statements from Republican Rep. Darrell Issa’s committee, particularly stunning comments he made that could lead to the dismantling of Obamacare, according to Politico.

“For some Republicans, Gruber is a dream witness,” wrote Politico’s David Nather. “All they have to do is play the videos that confirm their worst suspicions about President Barack Obama’s signature healthcare law, especially the one where Gruber boasts that ‘lack of transparency is a huge political advantage’— and watch him squirm.

“Better yet, they can ask him about the video that presents the biggest danger of all to the White House: the one where he undermines the Obama administration’s case in the upcoming Supreme Court lawsuit that could bring a screeching halt to subsidies for millions of Obamacare customers.”

Nather is referring to comments that Gruber made about the central issue in an Obamacare lawsuit in front of the Supreme Court — whether the law allows subsidies for people receiving health insurance through the federal marketplace that covers 37 states, not just for customers who get it from state-based exchanges.

“If the justices decide that it doesn’t — thanks to the way one section of the law is worded — it can gut most of the law,” wrote Nather.

Last month the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, which claims that, according to the language of the law, the insurance subsidies under Obamacare should only be available in states who created their own healthcare exchanges and are not part of the HealthCare.gov federal exchange.

In a video recorded in January 2012, Gruber seemed to confirm the same argument that the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court lawsuit are making: “If you’re a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits,” according to Nather.

Obama administration staffers who worked on the healthcare legislation say that the language of the legislation was meant to mean that the law gives everyone the right to apply for and receive subsidies, including the millions enrolled on the federal exchanges, Politico reported.

But Gruber’s embarrassing video is included in the petition to the Supreme Court, and it is expected to come up in the oral arguments.

Michael Carvin, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, told Politico that “Gruber is Exhibit A that any English-speaking person knows what the subsidies language says.”

Gruber, an MIT economist, has since backed off from his remarks, saying that at the time of his speech it wasn’t clear that the federal exchange would even be ready in time for the start of enrollment, according to the political news website.

The furor started last month when a video surfaced showing Gruber, who made millions consulting on Obamacare, apparently criticizing the healthcare act while talking to fellow academics in 2013.

He said: “The bill was written in a tortured way to make sure the CBO [Congressional Budget Office] did not score the [health insurance mandate] as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies."

He also said: "Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. Call it the stupidity of the American voter, or whatever."

The video caused a firestorm that resulted in White House officials scrambling to downplay Gruber's pivotal role in the law's creation.

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