Friday, July 25, 2014

Obamacare Architect Caught Lying about State Exchanges



After awhile, you’d think at some point in time Democrats would demonstrate a little shame and admit they were wrong, or at least tell the truth.  That is one bridge too far.  Progressives will deny what they’ve said even though they’ve been recorded multiple times.  To them, we are the idiots for not understanding their intent. 

Jonathon Gruber is one of the architects of Obamacare.  This man declared, on multiple occasions, that Obamacare subsidies were tied to state run exchanges.  Brietbart.com reported the following:

A clip of Jonathan Gruber circulated last night in which he states that Obamacare subsidies are tied to the existence of state exchanges. This statement is extremely problematic for the law's supporters because it appears to confirm the view of plaintiffs in the Halbig case, i.e. that only state-exchanges were intended to deliver subsidies.

This morning Gruber told the New Republic's Jonathan Cohn that he know why he said it at the time in 2012. "I was speaking off-the-cuff. It was just a mistake," he claims. He added, "My subsequent statement was just a speak-oyou know, like a typo." A typo is usually a simple slip of the finger on the keyboard, i.e. a misspelling or missed bit of punctuation. Gruber's statement is nearly a minute long.

Also, it turns out it was not the only time he made such a statement. An clip from a public appearance Gruber made at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco on January 10, 2012 reveals he made the same connection between subsidies and state-based exchanges on at least one other occasion (hat tip to MorgenR).

There is no doubt this man is a progressive.  His liar qualifications are off the chart. 








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