Faux Republican outrage over the
supposed revelations of Obamacare "architect" Jonathan Gruber is in full froth. For example:
Gruber is a puny operative in a culture of deceit thar goes back to Alinsky and now defines this Obama cabal
— @DineshDSouza
A culture of deceit! Congressional Republicans are
planning hearings. Mitch McConnell
says "What this insider is saying confirms that they were spinning tales from the beginning that they did not tell the truth about ObamaCare."
The Republicans would now have you believe that Gruber was sitting on President Obama's lap, writing the whole of the Affordable Care Act. Now he's suddenly one of the people in charge of creating the whole law. But a search of Nexis (or even Google) from the time period when Congress was working on the legislation shows no acknowledgement by Republicans that Gruber was the creator of it. Think back. You've heard "Obama's healthcare law," "Nancy Pelosi's healthcare law," and "Harry Reid's healthcare law." Was it ever, even once, before this video statement of Gruber's was revealed this week, "Jonathan Gruber's law"?
Gruber is rightfully called an architect of Romneycare (remember that one, Republicans)? He helped write it. And the economic models he created for how that law was financed were used by him in consultation with the White House and Congress while they worked on the Affordable Care Act. But he wasn't sitting in the committee rooms or congressional offices while members and their staff wrote page after page of the law.
Republicans are just trying to create another Benghazi level scandal with this, since that whole Benghazi thing has fizzled out and they need a scandal. Maybe they think they can whip up such a big scandal that Obama won't veto their repeal bill, and millions and millions of Americans who will lose their health insurance will thank Republicans for uncovering this dastardly plot.