Obama will be SHOCKED to read in the paper that he personally asked Gruber to obfuscate the bill.
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Obama will be SHOCKED to read in the paper that he personally asked Gruber to obfuscate the bill.
Obama, during a news conference at the G-20 summit in Australia, did the next best thing, from the administration's standpoint. He told Fox News' Ed Henry, "I just heard about this."
Obama said, "The fact that some adviser who never worked on our staff expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with in terms of the voters is no reflection on the actual process that was run."
But Obama's casual dismissal of Gruber and his effort to dissociate his administration from Gruber's admissions don't wash. The Daily Caller reports that in an interview with PBS in 2012, Gruber said he had discussed the Cadillac tax with Obama at the White House.
In that interview, Gruber said: "(Obama is) really a realistic guy. He's like, 'Look, I can't just do this.' He said, 'It's just not going to happen politically. The bill will not pass. How do we manage to get there through phases and other things?' And we talked about it. And he was just very interested in that topic."
You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally. People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.
Thanks for covering this. The Democrats have timed a release of a report on "enhanced interrogations" during Bush's tenure. I expect the later to get virtually all of the MSM coverage.
You are just far too cynical. I mean the White House has only been in negotiations over this report for months, so they could help set the date it got released. And this is also not the full report, only the executive summaryThanks for covering this. The Democrats have timed a release of a report on "enhanced interrogations" during Bush's tenure. I expect the later to get virtually all of the MSM coverage.