9 Replies to “Grubering in the first degree [Darleen Click]”

1. Shermlaw says:

   December 10, 2014 at 8:43 am

   So, he was “trying to make myself seem smarter.” I assume then, that he’s not as smart as he has portrayed himself to various and sundry individuals. Of course, he will be giving up is tenured sinecure an academe in three . . . two . . . one . . .

2. geoffb says:

   December 10, 2014 at 9:20 am

   I want to write about something which I mentioned before but it seems to have passed all commentators and pundits right on by.

   If I’m designing, say, an airplane wing I will use a modeling program to test out various designs until I get what I want and then have a scale prototype built and tested in the real world to see if it matches what my modeling program said it would be. This might happen several times and then a full scale model would be built and also tested. Everything gets tweaked along the way including the modeling program if it fails to match the real world.

   For the CBO however, they are modeling the effect of a law on the economy and the revenues/outlays of the Federal government over an upcoming 10 year period. There is no real world that they can use to tweak their model until that 10 year period has been traversed with the given law in effect so at the time they do the projections there is no way to test what they come up with in their score.

   Now we find out that the man whose modeling program was used to score the Obamacare law was also the man whose program was used by those who wrote it so as to get the best score at the CBO. Every model contains assumptions about how the world does work, how it will work, how it will react to changes in some variable. These assumptions will drive a given input to a certain output.

   In a normal designing situation the real world will give feedback that will tweak the model to match the world. In the case of the CBO (and the climate change AGW modellers too) the real world feedback either isn’t there, is cherry-picked, or is ignored since the model is there to give a scientific gloss to a desired change which is to change the real world to match a perfected world which is desired by the one[s] who made the model. Persons who, like Obama for one, make themselves the star/superhero of their own fictional novels.

   Gruber wasn’t hired to write the law, what would be the law was already designed into the modelling software. He was hired to help hide what the law would be from the public, some CBO people, and to thus give plausible deniability for some Blue Dogs in Congress for their votes.

   I wonder just how many of the CBO models are designed to force certain desired means into becoming law so as to perfect the world?

3. guinspen says:

   December 10, 2014 at 9:50 am

   I’d start with “all of them,” and work upwards from there.

4. dicentra says:

   December 10, 2014 at 12:45 pm

   Focusing on Gruber’s comments and his arrogant machinations is the wrong focus.

   Gruber was hired to do exactly what he did. It’s not as if he alone decided to be deceptive and slick. He didn’t decide on his own to pull a fast one or to capitalize on the electorate’s economic ignorance.

   Even Trey Gowdy’s elegant dissection of Gruber’s speech is off the mark. Unless you establish right there, on the record, that the prevarications and obfuscations were supposed to be in the bill, as part of the original intent, and that Gruber was merely the engineer who built the bridge that Obama/Pelosi/Reid designed, there’s no point in dressing him down like this.

5. Squid says:

   December 10, 2014 at 2:22 pm

   I just wish there were a way to make the networks stress that Gruber wasn’t talking about Republicans when he made his comments about the electorate’s stupidity.

   What would happen if Brian Williams or Jon Stewart stated point blank that the GOP and the Tea Partiers were never going to vote for this thing under any circumstances, and so the Obamoids focused on tricking their own side into going along with the idea? “So basically, you lied to your own voters, thinking that they were ignorant enough to buy into your lies? That’s just cold. How do you think they’ll react now that they know what you really think of them?”

6. LBascom says:

   December 10, 2014 at 3:12 pm

   Well hell Squid, when you put it that way, Gruber was right!

7. Lost My Cookies says:

   December 10, 2014 at 4:55 pm

   Totally OT, but my son at West Point just texted me that Rush Limbaugh sent his Co. A box of cigars. just in time for the Navy Game. I thought that was pretty nice. Go Barbarians! Beat Navy!

   I wonder who’s related to Rush?

8. serr8d says:

   December 10, 2014 at 6:53 pm

   Gruber is an inadvertent Eric Snowdon, measuring just Government Embarrassment. His effective anti-asshole payload didn’t deliver nearly as much damage as Snowdon’s, because teh Teflon is thick on these Ruling Class bastards.

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   December 11, 2014 at 12:36 pm

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