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That’s a pretty brutal cross. Gowdy is a tough tough cookie.
Why give this creep a platform from which to pretend to apologize? Why allow him and the Dems the narrative that he’s apologized for his “mistakes” so that we must move on?
Tactical mistake.
I’d never heard Gruber speak before. His voice screams herbivore liberal.
Gowdy might be the best interrogator since Giuliani. It’s a shame that he won’t be on a presidential ticket since the debates with him would be Must See TV.
Plus, no homo, he’s got a great voice.
Tar. Feathers. Rope.
I’d love to see Trey Gowdy as Attorney General. He would kick ass.
Nice little twist of the knife by Issa at the end. Hopefully, some people see that and start to realize the disdain in which they are held by these “elites”.
Nice little twist of the knife by Issa at the end. Hopefully, lots of people see that and start to realize the disdain in which they are held by these “elites”.
After watching this grovelling liberal f*** try to lie his way out of the corner, I wish Gowdy had not used the politically acceptable “disingenuous” and had gone with old Sam Ervin’s “I do not believe you sir,I think you are lying”.
Gruber epitomizes our liberal “betters” and don’t ever doubt for a moment the only thing he’s sorry about is his remarks going viral on the internet. He meant every word he said.
I have to ask, what “stupid” person made the remarks,who was stupid enough to make them in a public venue?
Answer: The Phd. from MIT, IQ in the clouds, head firmly up his rectum.
Issa’s close was bang on.
Amazing this guy is willing to say he wanted to sound smart…..an MIT professor needing to sound smart….geez who believes that one.
Well, the spin doctors earned their pay. Given that Cummings whipped him appropriately as gifting a PR talking point the Dems won the round honestly. If only there was some substantiation that showed his statements were reflective of what he had heard others say, or that he was a directing mind on how it was written.
Gruber had been through this before in Mass…..he actually knew what he was talking about, you cant cover the uninsured without increasing costs to the isnured which is what this is about.
This is just too painful to watch. But now you see to whom you are paying 25,000 in tuition, to screw up your young adult children. I say, never trust someone who has never been punched in the face. Gruber, Obama et al, are these people. His first shot at honourable verbal combat, and he shits the bed and his pants. He may feel noble trying to protect obama, but his time is not over yet, Herr Gruber and his behaviour still has miles to go, and those miles lead to the Supreme Court.
Claims not to be a politician, then acts like one for the whole session.
Gowdy: national treasure — gets better every time I hear him. As for Gruber, is that a bus I hear in the middle distance?
Gruber with the kind of high pitched voice that grates on your nerves and irritates you
Issa got Gruber to impune the entire dominant progressive culture in America. Gruber’s feigned contrition was as baseless any other serial liar’s. Beautiful!
I don’t buy his apology and I knew he and Democrats where lying about Obamacare.
Jail the ####er.
Educated lieberal against a straight shooting conservative
NO BLOODY CONTEST
there is a lot of lieberal crow being eaten now
Obama managed to nuke this coverage with the “torture” report. Not that it matters, the ACA is doomed. The SCOTUS knows that the “established by the states” language appears multiple times.
Like every other criminal, wrongdoer, and pretentious jackass, he is only sorry and apologetic because he got caught. I am always amazed at how contrite these creeps are when there is proof of their arrogance and disregard for anyone but themselves.
Ah yes, when you caught saying what you mean, say you didn’t mean it.
I love this guy Gowdy! Why there is no hint of him being on the Republican ticket escapes my understanding. I’d love to see him go head-to-head with any Democrat.
Issa nailed it in 10 seconds.
I think Gowdy spent too much time on the “inappropriateness” of the comments and the apology. No apology was necessary, unless to apologize for Obamacare.
We all know that the comments that Gruber made were extremely appropriate and true, if hurtful to Obamacare.
Letting this creep speak from that platform is to have traded half a dozen tapes of his candid boasts about of the fraud perpetrated by the admin. against US citizens and against other branches and offices of the government, like the CBO, for an over-lawyered set of lies. Where’s the advantage in that? What’s the gain?
Instead, they should have played the various tapes, and at each significant statement, stopped the tape and asked Gruber whether that was he boasting about the fraud.
Goudy at bat in the bottom of the ninth.
Game tied.
2 out and a 3-2 count, bases loaded.
Swings…hit deep into “far left” field…into the upper deck!!
Grand slam! Game over! Dems lose another and the crowd roars!!
I wonder what Mr. Gruber’s family name was. Before Anglicization. Pray tell… Not Schickelgruber?
Sometimes, when I’m feeling a bit low, I just throw on a video or two of Gowdy doing his stuff, and I begin to feel much better.
Sometimes, I even need a cigarette after.
I dunno…I am a bit disappointed …I would have liked Gowdy to connect him to the White House, and Bam Bam. How many times did he say that in the presence of the Dems who were writing up Obamacare?
meh…I know…what difference does it make at this point in time?
“Why give this creep a platform from which to pretend to apologize? …”
Because he makes it blindingly obvious that he is a creep and that his apologies are a pretense.
Of course the Democrat spinners will say he has apologized and move on, but everyone who saw it will have seen not Republican spinners describing him as a creep and his apologies as a pretense, they’ll have seen him demonstrate it himself with his own words and his own demeanor.
Gruber is the epitome of liberal progressive thinking about their fellow citizens. Hence, here in Canada, the Liberals think that they are the natural governing party of Canada and that it is a grave error for Canadians to elect anyone right of center.
In this video I was looking for Goudy or Issa to connect the prominence of Gruber in the Obamacare implementation process and to suggest that the whole program was based on a lie.
Gruber’s “apologies” succeeded. He gave no useful testimony which would have shed light on the Democrat conspiracy to force government healthcare, under false pretenses, on the American people.
If Gruber’s sort of ‘non-answer apologies’ to direct questions is allowed to stand, there is no point in having any sort of inquisitorial investigation by Congress in the future.
“Obamacare was based on a lie”
Many lies actually, just like every single thing about Obama, Barry Soweto or whatever he is stylin himself this week.
The late Joan Rivers nailed it IMO.
There is much arseholery to be mined from the stupid Gruber brain trust.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmixKPZA04o&feature=player_embedded
Why doesn’t he just plead the 5th. like Lois Lerner?
The Dems are REALLY pissed off with Gruber calling out: How could you be so stupid?
Shouldn’t that be
Am I Sam? Sam I am
Ken and Oz…great points.
See the whole thing, start at 30 minutes
http://www.c-span.org/video/?323115-1/hearing-jonathan-gruber-marilyn-tavenner-health-care-enrollment
yah, Cummings laid a real beatdown on the fool.
one has to hope the stupid party takes full advantage(politically) of this situation
You’ve not been watching Fox News, my friend. You would not see this story on most other channels. You might not agree with much of the commentary on Fox but you will at least be availed to the fact – then you can decide for yourself.
I hope the Republicans kid glove treatment of this ahole and criminal was somehow an accident. Have they still not learned they have to defeat these people, and you can only do that if you drop the pretense that both parties share common concern for the people, blah, blah, blah?
This Congress is the Republicans last chance . They either make real changes, including forcing a re-write of this inhumane law down the left’s throat, or they will disappear.
As RR put it, if not us, then who? If not now, when?
Every L (l) iberal has their “beer and popcorn” moment and this was Gruber’s.
Now, when does Obama get impeached?
Only sorry he got caught!!
“Amazing this guy is willing to say he wanted to sound smart…..an MIT professor needing to sound smart….geez who believes that one.”
I believe it. There’s a lot of very insecure people with PhD after their names.
The implication behind his repeated excuse – that saying those things in front of that crowd would make him appear smarter than he actually is – is a fascinating glimpse into the top tiers of academia.
I may be just that kind of nerd, but I watched the entire 4 hours of testimony because I found it so riveting. Gruber’s professional and hopefully, his personal reputation is in tatters. However, it remains to be seen whether the US voter will pay attention to the devastating nature of the testimony. Gruber and to a lesser degree Tavenner, in effect took the 5th on much of the questioning.
Gruber defaulted over and over to the boilerplate phrases pre-rehearsed with his counsel. The effect of the questioning was such that they both revealed themselves as either liars or incompetents and they clearly are not the latter.
Given that Gruber has been abandoned by Obama as ‘just another advisor’, it would be very interesting to know why Gruber is in full protection mode at the expense of his own professional future. Or perhaps I’m naïve and his career at MIT will go on as usual with his students accepting that his lies and obfuscation to the American public was for the public good.
Pajama boy grown up? Naw, a work in progress.
PhD’s generally come across as naïve and stupid but actually they are just unworldly and sheltered.
I have noted they are fiercely loyal to their resource people….eg auto mechanics and gardeners….perhaps in awe of those elements pragmatic critic thinking.
As much as I love to see a pretentious, smug academic get a good smackdown, Gruber was getting such a verbal spanking that I almost felt sorry for him. Almost. Issa’s brief comment at the end was perfect.
Bad behaviour always has consequences. I sincerely hope that Gruber’s career and reputation have been flushed down the toilet and he has to get a real job. You know … a job like millions of other “stupid” Americans.