Guest Post by Michelle Obama’s Mirror
The list of people who have been “Grubered” is growing by the hour.
The Wise Cockatoo, with his little peacock.
The list – which started with the stupid American people – soon included stupid journalists who were mis-misinformed about the math, and then stupid politicians like Max Baucus, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. And then yesterday Big Guy himself added his name to the list of the “grubered” when he said he was shocked about the controversy involving “some advisor, not even on staff” and claimed again that ObamaCare was 110% transparent.
Alas, as Clarice points out, Jonny was not as insignificant as many would have him:
But you cannot pay him hundreds of thousands of dollars, cite him in your speeches and on your websites and in your briefs as an authority and then credibly pretend you don’t know him.(READ THE REST!)
And apparently we haven’t even heard the worst of it yet according to Rich Weinstein, private citizen and investigative cub reporter at large.
So it strikes me that there may be many of you out there who in the coming days will find yourselves wishing you had a way to wipe that smug, condescending smirk off the elitist face of “ Mr. Mandate” Gruber. Well, now you can, with my patented Post-Obamacare Syndrome (POS) Gruber Therapy®!
If you’ve already taken advantage of my free POS Barry Therapy®, no further instructions are required. If you’re new to my clinic, the therapy sessions are easy and free (unlike ObamaCare!). It requires no previous experience, very little knowledge, has no rules and the objective is unclear – just like our foreign policy.
For relief at any time, here’s all you have to do:
- Navigate to my permanent Barry Therapy Clinic (it’s over there -–> in my sidebar) and select the “Gruber” session
- Watch Gruber free fall, banging into and bouncing off the ObamaCare bumpers to your hearts’ content
- When Jonny lands in a crevasse and stops falling, just grab him by the head, butt or feet with your mouse and push, pull or squeeze him over, under or through the bumpers. He’ll even fit through invisible cracks – just like a rodent!
- If at any time you feel the need to increase the intensity of the session, just grab Gruber with your mouse and fling him wherever you want! He’ll just keep falling.
No prescription is required and treatment will be available whenever you need it. So go ahead, give both levels of my customized POS Gruber Therapy® a go (Level I, with bumpers and Level II, with exposed hypodermic needles). I’m certain you’ll feel better instantly.
Remember: you can’t fix smug, butt you can fling it around
Level I:
Level II
Hope and Change.
Where oh where did they find these ass holes? Why can’t the Republicans put a stop to this shit. What more do they fucking need to impeach this ass hole and stop Obamacare?
Obama Comments On Grubergate: “I Did Not Mislead Americans” Even As Gruber Pocketed Millions
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/16/2014 16:01 -0500
The last thing Obama needed brought up during the just concluded G-20 conference, where world leaders generously agreed to boost global GDP by $2 trillion (let’s all hold our breath while they “just go find a cash machine”) while bashing Putin pretty much non-stop for 48 hours to the point where the Russian leader left early (due to “lack of sleep”), was the whole “Gruber thing”, i.e., the recent revelations that the architect of the “Affordable” Care Act, Jonathan Gruber, relied on the “stupidity of American voters” to pass Obamacare. Sadly for the American president, not even halfway around the world could he get away from the humiliation that has clouded his one and only domestic policy “success” in his 6 year tenure.
Alas, a question about Grubergate is precisely what Obama got when after preaching about “accountability to the people”, a member of the press asked the head of the “most hypocritical transparent administration ever” if Obama “misled Americans” about the taxes and about keeping the plan “in order to get the bill passed?”
Obama’s response:”No, i did not.” This was Obama’s conclusion after he had just gotten “well-briefed before he came out here.” Indeed, nothing escapes the American president who continued: “The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run.”
Obama’s argument in a nutshell: “we had a lengthy argument” in the US about Obamacare. True, one that was rammed down the throats of Americans as a tax courtesy of the Supreme Court: a decision that as we now know relied on the stupidity of the American voters. Apparently, one that also relied on the partisan nature of the Supreme Court. But it’s ok, because the misleading was done not by the architect of Obamacare but, suddenly, just “some advisor who never worked on our staff.”
Unfortunately, because Obama apparently wasn’t briefed quite as well as he would have hoped, let’s just take a look at what Dr. Gruber did do.
From B-320482, Department of Health and Human Services–Use of Appropriated Funds for Technical Assistance and Television Advertisements, October 19, 2010
On March 25, 2009, HHS awarded a contract to Dr. Jonathan Gruber, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to “produce a series of technical memoranda on the estimated changes in health insurance coverage and associated costs and impacts to the government under alternative specifications of health system reform.” [3] HHS Contract No. HHSP233200900181P, at 3. The contract required Dr. Gruber to consult with senior HHS officials “to develop detailed specifications of alternative proposals to increase health insurance coverage” and to use the specifications to “develop estimates of the change in the number of individuals with health insurance coverage . . . and the costs to the government and the private sector associated with these estimated changes in coverage.” Id. This was a firm, fixed-price contract for $95,000. Id., at 1. On June 19, 2009, HHS awarded another firm, fixed-price contract to Dr. Gruber for similar services for $297,600. HHS Contract No. HHSP23320094301EC.
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Subsequent to the award of the HHS contracts, Dr. Gruber authored opinion pieces on health care policy that were published in national newspapers. E.g., Jonathan Gruber, Reform requires consumer pressure, Boston Globe, Sept. 3, 2009, at 17; Jonathan Gruber, A Loophole Worth Closing, N.Y. Times, July 12, 2009, at WK-10. Several media outlets quoted Dr. Gruber in articles regarding health care policy. E.g., Alec MacGillis, Would Tax on Benefits Rein In Spending?, Washington Post, July 30, 2009, at A1; Lisa Wangsness, Mass. health overhaul offers lessons for US program; Employees not being dumped on public plan, Boston Globe, July 10, 2009, at 2. In 2009, Dr. Gruber twice testified before a Senate committee on health care policy issues. Increasing Health Costs Facing Small Businesses: Hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Nov. 3, 2009, video available at help.senate.gov/hearings; Healthcare Reform: Hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, June 11, 2009, available at help.senate.gov/hearings.
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At issue here is whether HHS violated the prohibition against using appropriations for publicity or propaganda purposes when it awarded the contract for technical assistance and when it used appropriated funds to produce and air the television advertisements. The applicable prohibition states that “[n]o part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by private contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by Congress.”[7]
In other words Obama is right that Gruber wasn’t part of the administration. He was nothing short than a well-paid propaganda tool designed to take advantage of, in his own words, American stupidity.
Did we say well paid? We meant very well paid. To wit:
Michigan: $481,050 (source)
Minnesota: $329,000 (source)
Vermont: $400,000 (source)
Wisconsin: $400,000 (source)
West Virginia: $121,500 (source)
… and so on, and on, and on.
Because it suddenly becomes all too clear that Gruber was indeed telling the truth: only a nation full of idiots would pay a lying, self-serving propaganda tool nearly $2 million for nothing but constant lies.
Greetings,
This is all well and good but we no longer live in an age of accountability. It doesn’t matter if you are an out of control war criminal or a pack of thieves that destroyed a once thriving nation – it doesn’t matter.
Oh wait, it does matter if you are an average Joe then the full weight of the law is thrown at you each and every day.
Each and every day I meet more people that are taking their businesses and their skillset either underground or out of the country. Some people know what time it is.
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Obongo: “Uh… I don’t know that guy. Obongo-care is 100% transparent.”
Yeah, sure Barry…
Everything else about you, your administration, and all your sycophants and acolytes is a fucking fraud, a scam, a swindle or an outright lie… why should this be any different?
Thanks, you stupid motherfucker…
The whole Obamcare scam was – IMO – a brilliant attempt to distract the highly distractible Americans from their desire to hang bankers from light posts.
Baffle them with BS over health care because even the stupid ones could see bailing out the banks was wrong.
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Gruber is mistaken. The majority of Americans were smart enough to reject Obamacare. Also, does he not recall that zero Republican House/Senate votes were cast for the law?
The Democratic Party owns Obamacare lock, stock, and barrel. Gruber and his ilk are the real idiots, as is now becoming delightfully apparent.
Grow up people. These motherfuckers were lying on day one and we all knew it. Elections have consequences and Barry is still lying to our faces today. No different than that cunt Debbie Wasserman-Shultz. OH SHTF come soon.
I can’t wait for the hearings to start. Gruber will get roasted alive and roll over on Obama. Biden may be referred to as Mr. President before it’s over.
Nothing will happen because the public won’t demand anything happens.
My favorite line from Zero Hedge:
“At issue here is whether HHS violated the prohibition against using appropriations for publicity or propaganda purposes when it awarded the contract for technical assistance and when it used appropriated funds to produce and air the television advertisements. The applicable prohibition states that “[n]o part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall be used directly or indirectly, including by private contractor, for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States not heretofore authorized by Congress.”
Cannot be used for propaganda purposes, BWAHAHAHAHA. That’s what the government is a giant propaganda machine, WTF. Put all those fuckers in jail, every last one of them. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Bob.
“Nobody I know was fooled by the arguments in favor of Obamacare. Polls consistently showed a supermajority of the American people against Obamacare. The only ones for it were those who thought–maybe correctly–that they would get something for free for which “others” would pay.
The progressives arguing in favor of Obamacare, in fact, were either stupid or dishonest. That is the choice they have. The rest of us know and knew it as a scam. Had the American people been allowed to vote on Obamacare, and not just a cabal of dishonest and stupid politicians under the leadership of Reid and Pelosi, is there any doubt what would have happened to it?
It is imperative that the new Republican Congress keep quoting Gruber and launch a relentless effort to dismantle the Obamacare abomination.” –W. Lewis Amselem