When Pelosi intoned “You have to pass the law to find out what is in the law” she was sharing what is Democrat SOP — bamboozle the rubes they hold in contempt.
Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said that lack of transparency was a major part of getting Obamacare passed because “the stupidity of the American voter” would have killed the law if more people knew what was in it.
“This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that. In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”
I just checked out “obamacarefacts101” and was told that “50% of Americans still don’t have enough information or understand how obamacare will work to decide if they are in favor or not”, while those in favor number “a robust 41%”. ( http://www.obamacarefacts101.com/obamacare-approval-rating.htm )
Essentially, they are defining the 50% of Americans who disapprove as those who “don’t have enough information or understand how obamacare [sic] will work”, rather than accepting that they actually DO have enough information and DO understand how it will work, but don’t agree with either the overall aim or the various policies intended to achieve that aim.* It’s either that or admit that they are on the “wrong side of History” (to use one of their arguments against them) by having NEVERNOTONCE gotten so much as a plurality of approval from American residents, never mind a majority. (And I have no doubt that they were cherry picking their results from big cities, normally Democrat strongholds, even in very red States like Texas, which means that those results are still skewed in the wrong direction. It’s almost as though they have Pauline Kael running their polls.)
With that kind of mindset, do you honestly think they didn’t know that Obama and his cronies were lying from Day One, and — that having known — didn’t care?
* – One of my favorite T-shirts has a quote from Homer Simpson: “It’s not that I don’t know. It’s that I don’t CARE.”
– Look, the Progs need their handouts or they can’t cheat enough to win elections, so OCare. They wanted to buy as many deadbeat votes as possible by handing out healthcare insurance. They don’t give a f*** about the rest of the electorate. Everybody knows that, but this candid, if unintentional statement could mean this.
– On the other elbow, maybe it was intentional to hasten jug ears demise.
>”If this phrase, this admission by this professor, gets before the Supreme Court, Obamacare loses.”<
harvard trained seals so no
so “say” clown
That video, which as I understand it is from 2013, would have made a great closing argument in the final week of the campaign.
If the GOP had orchestrated a midterm campaign, that is.
Yale trained seals, actually.
harvard makes the yalies take
This bit isn’t even honest about their dishonesty:
“[I]f you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed[.]
Now, I’m just a dumb historian. Your world of finance and securities and insurance frightens and confuses me, as it were. But isn’t that what insurance is? Healthy people pay in, so sick people get money. And when you’re sick, you get money from other people who are healthy, right? People with intact homes pay in and burned down/flooded out people without homes get money. People with unwrecked cars pay in and people with wrecked cars get money.
What they were really doing here is forcing healthy people to pay in so sick people could get money. Because healthy people –especially young people. Have better things to spend their money on.
>What they were really doing here is forcing healthy people to pay in so sick people could get money. <
redistribute wealth/ ponzi scheme: we be talking chicago way.
The Sting Theme (Joplin – The Entertainer)
– What they are really doing is forcing more of the distributed health care costs off on the middle and upper incomers so the young turks can pay for their party beers and the deadbeats will vote for them. Fluke was a clear example of what they were going for.
– In fact the whole PR campaign with Fluke was designed to make as big a stink as possible about those little extra’s being paid for by mom and dad “if you vote for jug ears” because the yoot is oblivious to anything that doesn’t involve sex, drugs, booze, sports, partying, or shopping so they have to hit them over the head for them to understand.
Gruber is now a verb.
Don’t let the left Gruber you into a gulag.
I intended to photoshop this guy holding a cat. But I’d have to open his hands, so have a Chinese Obama animation instead.
The best excerpts from this video need to be in Republican TV ads from now until November 2016.
Combine Pelosi’s “pass it to see what’s in it” line with Gruber’s “the stupidity of the American voter” line and I think even Pelosi’s constituency might be troubled.
I’d run that ad mercilessly in every purple district in the US. I’d also run that ad in squishy R districts.
Hell, run it in blue districts too. Even they have voters who might swing red if they happened to contract some not-so-low-info cooties.
Squeeze those victory margins in the Democrats’ “safe” precincts and watch what happens.
Mr.Gruber has earned himself more contempt than our good host’s deeply contemptible half-brother.
Yippie-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Lying is an asset for government work. Workshops are done to teach the best ways to obfuscate the public.
They see you as their natural prey.
Nothing new, liberals always think you are too stupid to know what is good for you.
You don’t need to know everything about Obamacare to reject it. Just enough to know you don’t want it or know from experience that it will not work.
Same with “global warming”. Why do you have to be a “climate scientist” in order to reject the assertions? Spot one or two flaws in thinking or faulty assumptions and you can reject it. The burden is on them.
If you are not allowed to make a judgment without being an expert then you should not be asked to sit on a jury unless you were an eyewitness to the crime.
This cocksucker better hope I never run into him on the street, because his motherfucking balls are going to be my pinata. Swear To Fucking God.
– Well Mueller you may never have the chance since his own in Protardia have declared him a non-person for having the temerity to dare speaking truth to Progressive bullshit.
– Because a large portion of the gd media refuses to do its job since they decided to go full partisan and shill for the Left/Democrats we now have investment advisers doing the serious investigative reporting.
– I really really hope a lot of the press ends up unemployed.
“The comments in the video were made at an academic conference,” Gruber told host Ronan Farrow. “I was speaking off the cuff and I basically spoke inappropriately and I regret having made those comments.”
Translation: “ZOMG, I f***** up and spoke the truth out loud. Please don’t toss me out of Progtardia.”
– BTW, reading all of this I wonder what Roberts thinks of his decision now, or for that matter what the majority of voters think.
Making Maine proud and will continue to do so for 6 more years.
Oh geez, geoffb, King is channeling Helen Lovejoy
Politician L: I think we should build a giant tennis racket in space to swat away asteroids
Politician C: That sounds expensive and impractical if not impossible
Politician L: You want the earth destroyed by a giant asteroid and people to die. I don’t understand where you are coming from.