Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the White House and top Democrats have spent the past several days pretending that MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathon Gruber did little work on the president's healthcare overhaul. Now, video has surfaced of President Obama namechecking Gruber, infamous for remarks about the 'stupidity of the American voter,' as one of many people from whom he's 'liberally' stolen ideas.
The video was reportedly recorded before a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006. (H/T: The Washington Free Beacon):
'You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I've stolen ideas from liberally,' Obama said at the time. '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.'
If that - in addition to the countless facts already tying Gruber to the White House and top Democrats - weren't enough, reports surfaced this week indicating that the elitist professor has visited the White House at least 21 times during Obama's tenure .
And then there's former Steve Rattner, Obama's lead adviser in 2009 for the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, who joined MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Tuesday, calling Gruber 'the man' behind Obamacare.
'Jonathan Gruber was, back in the day in 2009, the guru on health care,' Rattner said. 'I remember that when I was in the White House, he was certainly viewed as an important figure in helping to put Obamacare together.'
'I think if you go back and look at the Washington Post or the New York Times or anything from that period you will find Jonathan Gruber's name all over it as both someone who's the leading expert on health care quoted by everybody, and as someone who the White House was using - I don't think we knew the dollar numbers he was paid at the time,' he continued.
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