David Brooks has been sucking on the LIV loser's pipe these days: Put down the pipe, Dave! That's why they call it "dope"!
Watch Fox News Channel or listen to Rush Limbaugh these days and you will get a very large helping of Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor whose comments about the "stupidity" of the American people in relation to the passage of the Affordable Care Act has reignited political debate over the law.
Gruber is quite clearly conservative catnip. But why?
The key to understanding why Gruber has become a cause celebre -- but not in a good way -- for conservatives is that his comments about the ACA confirm two things that the right has long believed about Democrats and the law: (a) The ACA was made purposely vague to keep the public in the dark about its depth and breadth, and (b) liberals think conservatives are stupid...
"That sound bite is an exclamation point to how stupid and gullible Obama believes you to be." Even David Brooks, no conservative bomb-thrower, writing in the New York Times on Tuesday about Obama's struggles in his second term, suggests: "Maybe it’s Gruberism: the belief that everybody else is slightly dumber and less well-motivated than oneself and, therefore, politics is more about manipulation than conversation."
2:40 PM PT: when Kansas GOP politicians speak of 'ethnic cleansing' with any immigration reform, then the shark has been jumped on stupidity and ignorance