Trey Gowdy calls on Obama to 'repudiate' Obamacare architect for 'smoking gun' video

◼ Rep. Trey Gowdy is calling on President Obama to "repudiate" Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber after video emerged of Gruber describing how the "stupidity of the American voter" helped get the healthcare law passed through Congress. - Washington Examiner

The South Carolina Republican, in an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Tuesday, said he "can't even get past the irony to get to the arrogance" of the "most transparent administration since the continents shifted [having] to rely on artifice and deception to pass its signature piece of legislation."

"You can't make that up," Gowdy said. "He had to lie to people, and then he justified it, so I can't even get past the irony of that to even get to the arrogance of him calling our fellow citizens stupid."



◼ Obamacare's foundation of lies a warning for new Supreme Court case - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner @TPCarney

Obamacare’s authors are asking us to trust them.

That will be pretty hard to do.

◼ A Snopes fail on the Gruber fact-check. Snopes.com did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment. - T. Becket Adams/Washington Examiner

◼ Jon Gruber finally speaks! … to MSNBC - HotAir

◼ Obamacare's Foundation of Lies - Ron Fournier/National Journal

...He called you stupid. He admitted that the White House lied to you. Its officials lied to all of us—Republicans, Democrats, and independents; rich and poor; white and brown; men and women.

Liberals should be the angriest. Not only were they personally deceived, but the administration's dishonest approach to health care reform has helped make Obamacare unpopular while undermining the public's faith in an activist government. A double blow to progressives.

On top of that, Gruber has helped make the legal case for anti-Obamacare lawyers. In July, a year-old video surfaced in which Gruber said Washington legally withholds money from states that don't create their own health care exchanges. That could be construed by the Supreme Court to buttress the case against health insurance subsidies....



◼ Howard Dean: “The core problem with damn law is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people." - Washington Free Beacon

Dean said was shocked that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber said “the stupidity of the American voter” was a “political advantage” in passing Obamacare in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday.

“The problem is not that he said it–the problem is that he thinks it,” Dean said. “The core problem under the damn law is it was put together by a bunch of elitists who don’t fundamentally understand the American people. That’s what the problem is.”

Brzezinski cringed after repeating Gruber’s quote.

◼ Mika Admits: If Gruber Were Republican, MSM 'Would Be Exploding' - Newsbusters

Kudos to Mika Brzezinski for admitting the truth: if Jonathan Gruber were a Republican, the MSM "would be exploding." Instead, noted Mika on today's Morning Joe, the MSM has been silent on the Gruber story, with only conservative sites [ed.: notably including Newsbusters] covering it.