Jonathan Gruber

Jonathan Gruber: Honest Liberal

Brought before a House inquisition, MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber burbled a recantation of his beliefs about how that triumph of liberalism had been achieved. Yet, something needs to be said in defense of Gruber. For while he groveled and confessed to the sin of arrogance, what this Ivy League con artist boasted about rings true. Here, Gruber explained, is how we got Obamacare passed: “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure [the Congressional Budget Office] did not score the mandate as taxes. If CBO scored the mandate as taxes, the bill dies. ...

“€œDeath Panels”€ and Distortions

We should have “an honest debate” on health care, said Barack Obama in his Aug. 22 radio address, “not one dominated by willful misrepresentations and outright ...

We”€™re All Socialists Now

In an interview with Philadelphia-based radio host Michael Smerconish, President Obama said the following about critics who called his healthcare proposal “socialist:” ...

Hitler Was a Vegetarian

Considering my deep and enduring antipathy toward "€œCrunchy Cons,"€ I am more than willing to believe that Whole Foods CEO John Mackey is a menace to society. But there's a ...

Those Death Panels

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so his ...

Astroturf

It was wicked when assorted neoconservative organs and tools presented antiwar activists such as Cindy Sheehan as something other than what they were. And it is still execrable ...

Sickos

Though it's been said that a "€œliberal"€ is someone willing to argue against his own position in a dispute, a characteristic quality of the contemporary American variety is ...

Sicko

Obama is a heavy-duty planner; a command and control kind of guy. He aims to replace cumbersome, heavily regulated medicine"€”the kind Americans have now"€”with Kafkaesque, ...


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