Grubergate - Obama joins chorus of 'Who?" Denial

[Derec]

Grubergate?

I'm happy to go with Grubergeddon or even Grubapalooza.

How about Grubhazi?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

I'm happy to go with Grubergeddon or even Grubapalooza.

How about Grubhazi?

How about Anti-Obama Rant #9576?

If we just call it another -gate or -ghazi, it might get lost in the noise of all the other things we're outraged about and we won't remember to focus our ire and condemnation on it by this time next week when we're outraged by some other destruction of our freedom for the sake of evil.

 

[ksen]

Tentacles of Grubergate slither up and around the throats of GW Bush Mitt Romney

The dirty secret in Massachusetts is the feds paid for our bill, OK? In Massachusetts, we had a very powerful Senator you may know. His name is Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy had basically figured out — Ted Kennedy and smart people in Massachusetts — had figured out a way to rip off the Feds for $400 million a year.

He's talking about the deal from the federal government that helped Massachusetts set up its 2006 coverage expansion, which later became the basis for the Affordable Care Act. It's hardly a secret. And Bush re-authorized the deal in 2008.

I wonder how much Gruber was paid by GW Bush and Mitt Romney?

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I'm happy to go with Grubergeddon or even Grubapalooza.

How about Grubhazi?

best derec post ever

 

[dismal]

Obviously those millions of dollars are the market rate for a consulting MIT economist.

Why do you hate the Market?

You mean the government rate, right? Those all look like arms of government to me.

The amusing thing is not that they paid Gruber a crap pile of money but that now they all pretend they don't know him.

They are engaged in lying and deception to not be associated with Gruber's comments about lying and deception.

They're Grubering Gruber.

 

[ksen]

Governments aren't participators in the market? They just use a dartboard and monkeys to determine pay rates?

 

[dismal]

Governments aren't participators in the market? They just use a dartboard and monkeys to determine pay rates?

Sounds like they they pay enough to get the answer they want to hear.

 

[bilby]

Governments aren't participators in the market? They just use a dartboard and monkeys to determine pay rates?

Sounds like they they pay enough to get the answer they want to hear.

So they are no different from big business at all, in the way they hire conslutants (sic), then.

 

[ksen]

Sounds like they they pay enough to get the answer they want to hear.

So they are no different from big business at all, in the way they hire conslutants (sic), then.

yep

More Transparency, More Pay for C.E.O.s

The study shows in devastating detail how compensation consultants—which use the increasingly available public data on compensation to advise boards on how much to pay chief executives—are helping to ratchet up the pay for the nation's top executives.

Companies have long tried to ''benchmark'' the compensation of their executives to that of their peers.

But as the cottage industry of compensation consultancy has emerged—along with more detailed information about salaries and bonuses—the increase in compensation has not slowed. In fact, quite the opposite has happened.

 

[Underseer]

The strident denial of obvious administration flim-flammery in Grubergate has become more than an amusing prat-fall, it is developing into a major PR disaster hinting at a potential scandal.

Several days and a few tapes ago Pelosi provided some jaw dropping amusement when she effectively said "Who's Gruber? I don't know any Gruber". Within a day researchers came up with Gruber quotes from her website (and that of the white house), followed by a 2009 Pelosi video with her proudly citing her expert, Gruber. Oh well, that cover story imploded.

When that ploy failed, the transmission belts of the left tried to minimize Gruber as some "guy" of minimal importance. Kliff, at VOX, wrote her music to that theme, forgetting that she had tweeted a couple of years ago about Gruber, describing him as the “health economist who pretty much wrote Obamacare.”

Then we have Politico health reporter Paige Winfield Cunningham, who has sought to minimize his contribution to Obamacare. Ironically, this same reporter as recently as July also referred to Gruber as an Obamacare architect.

And now Obama, in Brisbane Australia, told FOX that he ‘just heard about’ the controversy over Jonathan Gruber whom he described as ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’ He then went on to say that there was ‘not a provision of the healthcare law that was not extensively debated and it was fully transparent.’

Perhaps Obama forgot that one of those fully transparent provisions that was "debated" was the Cadillac tax deceit, concocted at the meeting with Obama and Gruber?

http://conservative50plus.com/blog/...deception-with-gruber-at-white-house-meeting/

Oh my.

Whatever the person in that video was saying when he was filmed appears to bear no relationship whatsoever to the soundtrack that plays alongside the visuals.

Do you have a less obviously fraudulent source for this claim? Because this is truly sad, even by the very low standards of political partisanship.

Why do you hate America? Why do you hate our freedom?

@Maxparrish: if we're going to use questionable sources to support wacky conspiracy theories, I would much rather talk about Obama's secret weather machine. It's inherently funnier.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

How about Grubhazi?

best derec post ever

Yes.

 

[J842P]

And where was Max's indignation when Bush lied to start the 2nd Iraq war?

Bush never lied, you see. The Bush administration was merely misled by faulty intelligence. That they gave to the public. You see, there is a subtle distinction.

 

[Angry Floof]

Call everything maxparrishgate and be done with it.

 

[Horatio Parker]

Funny, in the thread about Obamacare coming before the Supreme Court, Max said it was absolutely unpossible to determine the intent of the legislators.

Now, suddenly, there's a single "architect".

Shall we ask Gruber if the federal exchanges were meant to be excluded?