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GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« on: November 12, 2014, 07:43:08 pm »
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/223874-gop-may-hold-hearings-on-stupidity

GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’

By Sarah Ferris - 11/12/14 01:38 PM EST

House Republicans are mulling a hearing over ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber’s remark that the “stupidity of the American voter” contributed to the law’s passage.

“We may want to have hearings on this,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who is a member of the House Oversight Committee, told The Washington Post.

“I just had a colleague text me saying, 'We've got to look into this!' " Jordan told the Post, adding that other members of the committee were outraged by the comment as well.
"Hearings are a possibility, but nothing has been planned yet," Jordan's spokesman, Darin Miller, told The Hill.

Gruber, one of the law’s architects and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the comment last year. He suggested that ObamaCare passed because many lawmakers and voters didn't know what was in the law or how its financing worked.

“Basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” Gruber said.

Frederick Hill, a spokesman for the House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), told The Hill that he was not aware of any plans for a hearing.
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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 07:50:11 pm »

Had to look.

Didn't know if they were referring to themselves or the voters...     :silly:


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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2014, 08:48:17 pm »
Notice "The Hill" mischaracterizes a potential hearing before they even get to the story?
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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 11:30:47 pm »
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Gruber, one of the law’s architects and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, made the comment last year. He suggested that ObamaCare passed because many lawmakers and voters didn't know what was in the law or how its financing worked.

Gruber didn't "suggest" that ObamaCare passed because the law was designed to deliberately hoodwink the American people.  He said it outright in three separate speeches.

Let's take a look at how exactly this was accomplished.

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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2014, 02:05:15 am »
Gruber didn't "suggest" that ObamaCare passed because the law was designed to deliberately hoodwink the American people.  He said it outright in three separate speeches.

Let's take a look at how exactly this was accomplished.

Spot on.  This wouldn't be a hearing on "stupidity," it would be a hearing on "lying through your teeth about the costs to get a bill passed by deceit."  It needs a good lookin' at.
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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2014, 02:07:52 am »
Spot on.  This wouldn't be a hearing on "stupidity," it would be a hearing on "lying through your teeth about the costs to get a bill passed by deceit."  It needs a good lookin' at.

Exactly, these people expected to dupe the public.  And dupe them they did.
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Re: GOP may hold hearings on ‘stupidity’
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2014, 02:12:09 am »
Spot on.  This wouldn't be a hearing on "stupidity," it would be a hearing on "lying through your teeth about the costs to get a bill passed by deceit."  It needs a good lookin' at.

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