{"id":22059,"date":"2014-12-09T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22059"},"modified":"2014-12-09T13:31:16","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T18:31:16","slug":"gruber-gets-gored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22059\/gruber-gets-gored\/","title":{"rendered":"Gruber Gets Gored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though Jonathan Gruber did his best to apologize for his incredibly damaging<\/a> \u2013 and seemingly accurate<\/a> \u2013 remarks about how and why ObamaCare was drafted, there was no place to hide from the bipartisan rebuke he received today from the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform.<\/p>\n

Gruber is the now infamous MIT professor and erstwhile \u201carchitect\u201d of Democrats\u2019 signature health reform law that called American voters \u201cstupid\u201d for not understanding basic economics and the deceptive policies embedded in ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

Gruber\u2019s comments have incensed Republicans, but they\u2019ve also infuriated Democrats. Of all the anger directed at Gruber today, perhaps none was more forceful than that erupting from Rep. Elijah Cummings<\/a> of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I can tell, we are here today to beat up on Jonathan Gruber for stupid \u2013 I mean absolutely stupid \u2013 comments he made over the last few years,\u201d Cummings said. \u201cLet me be clear, I am extremely frustrated with Dr. Gruber\u2019s statements\u201d because \u201cThey were irresponsibly, incredibly disrespectful, and did not reflect reality. And they were indeed insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see if any of this theater persuades the Supreme Court. Next spring the justices consider whether a section of ObamaCare should be interpreted, as written, to deny subsidies to citizens in 37 states<\/a> that use the federal health insurance exchange. It\u2019s an interpretation that Democrats oppose, but Gruber in at least one viral video adamantly confirms.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been said that a political gaffe occurs when someone says the truth in public. Regarding ObamaCare\u2019s deceptive elements, that may be Jonathan Gruber\u2019s greatest offense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Even though Jonathan Gruber did his best to apologize for his incredibly damaging \u2013 and seemingly accurate \u2013 remarks about how and why ObamaCare was drafted, there was no place to hide from the bipartisan rebuke he received today from the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. Gruber is the now infamous MIT professor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,3007,3308,1829,4613,35,2249,92],"class_list":["post-22059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-jonathan-gruber","tag-obamacare","tag-subsidy","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22059"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22064,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22059\/revisions\/22064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}