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GOP Rep. Jim Jordan: Time for House hearings on Jon Gruber’s ObamaCare Remarks --- UPDATED

From the Washington Post:

“We may want to have hearings on this,” said Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), an influential voice among GOP hardliners and a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview at the Capitol.

“We shouldn’t be surprised they were misleading us.”… Jordan said House Republicans have been sending each other a blizzard of e-mails and text messages this week, and he expects the interest in “bringing [Gruber] up here to talk” will gain traction as members return to Washington. House Republicans will gather Thursday evening for their first series of votes since the election…

Elsewhere in the Capitol, House GOP leadership aides expressed new optimism that their desire to target the ACA could get some momentum. While rhetorically committed to full repeal, in order to keep the party’s right flank on board, the party is looking more seriously at undermining specific parts of the law as it navigates divided government next year.

Those moves could include repealing the medical device tax; watering down a requirement that employers offer full time workers coverage, which takes effect in January; and changing the definition of a full-time worker from someone who works at least 30 hours a week to someone who works at least 40 — all proposals which could win some Democratic support.

Allahpundit comments:

Lots of benefits to doing this. For starters, as noted in the excerpt, it’s a boost to Republicans in chipping off the least popular parts of ObamaCare. If Joe Manchin and the rest of therump Democratic caucus thought it’d be hard to resist voting with the GOP before, imagine how hard it’ll be after a day or two of Jon Gruber’s greatest hits in front of a House committee. Politically, it’s potentially helpful too to Bill Cassidy in knocking off Mary Landrieu in next month’s Louisiana runoff. Obviously the House would need to move quickly if they want Gruber to testify before the state votes, but it’s worth their while in this case. Landrieu was, after all, the 60th vote for ObamaCare, just as all Senate Democrats were. Let’s give Louisianans a snoutful of the contempt they’re held in by Obama and his progressive cronies. In fact, see if you can guess who said this: “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.” Ted Cruz? Nope: Howard Dean. If even Dean-o’s that angry about Gruber’s comments, they’re a potent weapon against Landrieu.

Most importantly, dragging Gruber before Congress to explain how the White House gamed CBO and the public to sell O-Care will also give the GOP a chance to revisit his “speak-o” comments, in which he admitted during the drafting of the law — more than once — that federal subsidies for new ObamaCare enrollees should be limited to consumers using state exchanges, not the federal exchange. That’s the point of contention in the Halbig case that was just accepted for review by the Supreme Court. Since we’re destined to have a left/right war for public opinion over that anyway as oral arguments get closer, with liberals mumbling endlessly that the ambiguous language in the statute was just a “typo,” we might as well start early by calling our star witness — the one and only Jon Gruber. Who knows? Maybe John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy are on the fence about Halbig and sympathetic to the typo argument. Let ol’ piehole set them straight on live television.

If you can believe it, the Daily Caller has a third video of this tool sneering at the ignorance of an electorate that twice elected Obama, this time over O-Care’s “Cadillac tax.” Quote: “It’s a very clever, you know, basic exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter.” The guy who dug it up isn’t a reporter but rather an investment advisorwho does this in his spare time as a public service, knowing that big media isn’t the least bit interested in exposing the ruses used to pass ObamaCare.

UPDATES ---

"American voters are too stupid" appears to be a central theme within this administration as witnessed in a few video clips noted below:

Carney says the American people are too stupid to know about the debt ceiling 3 years ago
Obama: American people are too stupid to know that NSA spying is good for you 1 year ago
MSNBC cohost says Americans are too stupid to judge Hillary Conton in polling 3 months ago
Obama: You average people are too stupid to know NSA surveillance is good for you1 year ago
Obama says his woman voters are too "stupid and weak" to fend for themselves 2 years ago
Obama: Americans are too stupid to understand economics 2 years ago
John Kerry says Americans "Have a right to be stupid"
Obama says "You are too small minded to manage your affairs 5 months ago
1/14/11 Obama admin says we're too stupid - America's nightly scoreboard 3 years ago Former NYS Lt Gov Betsy McCaughey talks with David Asman on America's Nightly scoreboard about the Obama Health Law!
That is in addition to Gruber's multiple routine confirmations:
Gruber: Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage
Second Gruber video stating how stupid American voters are
Health Care REform: THe Comic Book, video
DailyCaller: Third video Gruber talks about 'basic exploitation' of voters

The American people, in the main, opposed Obama care. We weren't fooled, Obama care was shoved down our throats against our will.

A Democrat legislative super-majority, procedural skullduggery (deeming the bill "passed" without reconciliation), and a feckless Chief Justice forced the law upon us.

Scott Brown won Kennedy's old Senate seat in deep blue Massachusetts based entirely on his promise to be the vote to stop Obamacare. The aforementioned procedural irregularities prevented that eventuality.

No the people weren't stupid, the people were ignored. The people be damned!

I wish these assholes would quit trying to rewrite recent history.

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