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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Gruber: Obama personally asked me to help disguise unhelpful Obamacare facts
http://xrepublic.tv/node/11207
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And why was Obama so keen on obscuring the nature of his signature law’s
taxes? Perhaps because he’d just recently spent months relentlessly
hammering John McCain over a proposal to tax health benefits “for the first
time.” So he needed MacGruber to swoop in and help craft a strategy of
evasion and deflection. Noah mentioned over the weekend that in his response
to Grubergate, Obama insisted that he’d never misled the public on
Obamacare (which virtually nobody really buys at this point, and for good
reason) and disavowed Gruber’s seemingly endless damning comments. One
formulation that stuck out to me was his assertion that Gruber “was never
on our staff.” This is exceedingly weak spin. The video above contains
evidence that the president was personally huddling with Gruber on the
Obamacare sales pitch, charging him with fashioning accounting tricks that
might provide a politically-necessary fig leaf — which Paul Ryan dismantled
at the pre-passage “health care summit.” It’s impossible for the White
House to just divorce itself from this guy. He was very much their guy. Not
only did they furnish Gruber with $400,000 for his services, they made him a
leading point person for “drafting the specifics” of the law with
Congress. |
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