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One of the problems for liberals is that in the age of the cell phone and the internet, they are continuously caught lying.\u00a0 There are all those inconvenient videos that keep showing up and are increasingly difficult to ignore.\u00a0 We anxiously await the unveiling of Lois Lerner\u2019s e-mails because they are almost certain to include some really great stuff.\u00a0 That is why the Obama administration is doing everything possible to prevent their disclosure.\u00a0 The same is true with regard to Benghazi.\u00a0 But perhaps the most damaging video for this administration is the following clip on reason.com:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/24\/watch-obamacare-architect-jonathan-grube<\/a><\/p>\n

This could not come at a more inconvenient time.\u00a0 Jonathan Gruber was on MSNBC explaining why the key provision in the law was just a typo:<\/p>\n

“It is unambiguous this\u00a0is a typo. Literally every single person involved in the crafting of this\u00a0law has said that it’s a typo, that they had no intention of excluding the\u00a0federal states.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

One will note that even Gruber has to agree that the law says what it says.\u00a0 Now we learn that Gruber was traveling all over the country explaining why it was so important for states to set up their own exchanges.\u00a0 Here is what he said:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s important to remember politically about this is if you’re a state and you don\u2019t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits<\/em><\/strong>\u2014but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you\u2019re essentially saying [to] your citizens you\u2019re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Jonathan Gruber signed an amicus brief contracting his own verbal statements.\u00a0 That is not a minor problem.\u00a0 The only question a lawyer need ask Mr. Gruber is:\u00a0 \u201cwere you lying then or are you lying now?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A few months ago skeptics laughed at the prospect of this provision stopping ObamaCare in its tracks.\u00a0 No one is laughing now.\u00a0 Even if the law is upheld this is further evidence that Democrats botched this big time.\u00a0 Never in the history of this country has one political party shoved such comprehensive legislation down the throats of the American people with zero support from the other party.\u00a0 Never in the history of this country has one political party made such an enormous mistake.\u00a0 At best, Democrats look incredibly inept and stupid.\u00a0 My guess is that voters this fall will take the opportunity express their opinion about this.\u00a0 Unless something changes, Democrats are about to absorb a historic landslide loss..<\/p>\n

When you combine this with the rapidly aging Democratic leadership the only thing certain is fundamental change in the Democratic Party itself.\u00a0 This will not necessarily be good change, because Democrats are likely to replace the current class of clowns with even worse, but change is inevitable.\u00a0 In case you doubt this, Democrats in their desperate search for someone <\/strong>to be a credible alternative to Hillary Clinton seriously floated the prospect of another run by California Governor Jerry Brown.\u00a0 Ignoring the horrible job he is doing in California, Brown is already 76 years old.\u00a0 He will be 78 years old in 2016.\u00a0 Fossil fuel does a good job of running your car, but doesn\u2019t usually win elections.<\/p>\n

TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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