BloggeRhythms

Results from the recent elections are now being carefully analyzed. Studies show that voter negativity regarding the incumbent president, and his entire party, arose from not only dissatisfaction with policy and performance, but was also a rejection of smugly delivered arrogance and heavy-handedness. 

 

In that regard, an article by Patrick Howley, in the The Daily Caller via Fox News.com displays a degree of assumed intellectual superiority that’s almost unbelievable. 

 

“ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber said that lack of transparency was a major part of getting ObamaCare passed, and that it was written in such a way as to take advantage of "the stupidity of the American voter."

 

Gruber’s an MIT professor who served as a technical consultant to the Obama administration during ObamaCare’s design. He made clear that the individual mandate -which was only upheld by the Supreme Court because it was a tax- was not actually a tax.

 

Gruber said specifically, “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. Okay, so it’s written to do that.  In terms of risk-rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass… Look, I wish Mark was right that we could make it all transparent, but I’d rather have this law than not.”

 

Therefore, by acknowledging that, if “you made explicit [that] healthy people pay in and sick people get money,” it would not have passed, Gruber’s conceding that as a law, the bill would never have even gotten through Congress. Which means that by pushing the legislation as a tax, the administration took the incredibly overbearing position that their judgment and beliefs held precedent over those of elected representatives and the general public itself.

 

Which leads to the question today for Mr. Gruber, which is: Now that the election’s over and the Democrat party’s gone down in the biggest landslide in recent American history, how’s your divine wisdom working out for you and your cronies now?

 

Along the same lines, Ruby Cramer writes in buzzfeed.com about the cost of having the Clinton’s campaign for Democrat candidates.

 

At present, $699,000 is “the first comprehensive estimate that establishes the scope of the costs associated with using the Clintons as surrogates. By the time the rest of the filings come in, the number will likely exceed $1 million.”

 

Although the Clintons “couldn’t have paid for their own flights,“ because “legally, candidates are required to pay for surrogate travel or report the costs as an in-kind contribution,” those same candidates willingly invited the Clinton's to come, costing those candidates dearly.

 

Which leads to the very same question to the candidates that got drubbed as the one regarding Mr. Gruber above: “Now that the election’s over and the Democrat party’s gone down in the biggest landslide in recent American history, how’s your divine wisdom working out for you and your cronies now?”

 

That’s it for today folks.

 

Adios