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Home Front: Politix
Nancy Pelosi Walks into the #Grubergate Buzzsaw
2014-11-15
[BLOOMBERG] The first question at House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...
's post-election news conference went to Fox News's Chad Pergram, who asked what the un-archived comments of "Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
 architect Jonathan Gruber" meant for the coming Obamacare wars.

"Mr. Gruber's comments were a year old, and he has backtracked from most of them," she said. "You didn't have it in your narrative. That's really important. He is not even advocating the position that he was at some conference and some said. So I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill. With all due respect to your question, you have a person who wasn't writing our bill, commenting on what was happening when we were writing our bill, who has withdrawn some of the statements."

Pelosi might as well have waved a red flag in front of a target as a starting gun went off. Gruber "wasn't writing" the health care bill? No one said he was, only that he helped walk Democrats through the crafting of the various bills that became the Affordable Care Act. It only made sense; Gruber, an MIT professor, had played a similar role in Massachusetts four years earlier. As speaker of the House, Pelosi herself had promoted Gruber's analyses of the ACA, much as Democrats promoted the work of economist Mark Zandi to prove that their policies had conservative credibility.

So the right sprang into action--at Mediaite, on Twitter, and on Twitchy, which aggregated both Pelosi's comments and the spin of news hounds who said there was a difference between Gruber being cited by Democrats and Gruber "writing the bill." In very little time, conservatives re-discovered video of Pelosi telling news hounds to get right with Gruber's analysis of the ACA.

It was possible, technically, for Democrats to credit Gruber with some of the best ideas inside and outside of Congress during the 2009-2010 debate without saying that Gruber "wrote" the law. But Democrats are explaining, and losing.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Hitler Finds Out Field Marshal Gruber Spilled the Beans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKhkQqA53v0
Posted by: Whurong Flomosh7989   2014-11-15 18:12  

#10  'Gruber was Romneycare's intellectual lead'

So is it safe to assume that the GOP presidential and congressional campaigns of 2012 and 2014 were acutely aware of Gruber's role and statements and the implications thereof and deliberately kept silent?
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2014-11-15 16:05  

#9  yep. Gruber was Romneycare's intellectual lead -


So much for Romney in 2016.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-15 14:06  

#8  yep. Gruber was Romneycare's intellectual lead - that's why the O-bots drafted him
Posted by: Frank G   2014-11-15 13:40  

#7  I guess this also means no "Mitt 2016"...
Posted by: Pappy   2014-11-15 12:02  

#6   Like so many on the left, the ends justify the means. This 16 sec. vid catches SanFranNan in a big whopper.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-11-15 11:07  

#5  Just another case of "progressive" communication snafu - Pelosi can handle it - The Lioness of the Progressive Democrats in Congress.

Pelosi has represented the city of San Francisco, perhaps the most liberal in the nation, since 1987, and is a very close friend of Rep. Barbara Lee, who represents neighboring Oakland and Berkeley, California, and is the most vocal apologist for Communist Cuba in Congress today. Lee, head of the Congressional Black Caucus, recently led a delegation to Cuba to meet with the Castro brothers to discuss normalization of relations. But she paid no attention to political dissidents or political prisoners being held on the communist island.

Lee, who calls Pelosi “a magnificent woman” and “one of California’s greatest representatives,” began her career in the California state legislature as a secret member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, a spin-off from the Communist Party. As a member of the staff of Rep. Ron Dellums, Lee was shown to have been collaborating with communist officials on the island of Grenada, according to documents captured after the liberation of that island nation. These revelations have not hurt Lee’s standing with Pelosi and other “progressives.” Indeed, Lee also served as the chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

But even more interesting than the Barbara Lee connection is Pelosi’s long-time friendship and association with Vincent and Vivian Hallinan, one of the most radical left-wing families in San Francisco over the course of five decades.

Pelosi hailed them as “one of San Francisco’s great Irish families” in a March 17, 1999, statement, after the passing of Vivian Hallinan. “Vivian was a pioneer, a mentor and a leader,” Pelosi said. “Our community was blessed by her presence and will long remember her many significant contributions to improving society. I will miss my friend, Vivian.”

Notice use of the term “mentor.”

Pelosi called Vivian Hallinan, who openly held “socialist” views, a “pioneer” in “a wide range of progressive causes.”

But these causes included support for communists in Central America during the 1980s, when Soviet- and Cuban-backed forces were subverting Central America through violence and terrorism and fighting for control of the region.

Indeed, Pelosi paid tribute to Vivian Hallinan by inserting into the Congressional Record an article saying that she had “opposed U.S. policy in Central America” under President Reagan, had “befriended Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua’s [Communist] Sandinista leader,” and had met with Cuban dictator Castro.

“She was a role model for many of us,” Pelosi said. “If Vincent was the lion, Vivian was the lioness.”


source : http://www.aim.org/aim-column/speaker-pelosis-controversial-marxist-connections/
Posted by: Titus Angavick9195   2014-11-15 10:37  

#4  Pelosi might as well have waved a red flag in front of a target as a starting gun went off.

This is what happens when you put metaphors in a blender and press "puree".
Posted by: Angie Schultz   2014-11-15 08:53  

#3  Dang, sorry.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-15 08:31  

#2  http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/arresteddevelopment/images/5/5c/1x01_Pilot_(23).png/revision/latest?cb=20120301045528

Posted by: Shipman   2014-11-15 08:30  

#1  Gruber is no different than Emanuel or Axelrod. As they come to realize they've been used by a closet mooslim fanatic to destroy their core beliefs and heritage, they want out.
Posted by: Besoeker   2014-11-15 02:16  

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