What’s This? A Circus?

With more than a half-dozen videos surfacing in which MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber bragged about fooling the public about Obamacare, today he faces the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  The hearing begins at 9:30 AM ET on C-SPAN 3.

Many have characterized his remarks about the purposeful lack of transparency and the “stupidity of the American voter” as gaffes.  His remarks may prove to be a fatal blunder that exposes just how bad the law is and may ultimately cause the damn thing to unravel.  It has most assuredly raised the public’s suspicions about the law and generated a palpable anger over the arrogance of this Administration.

Gruber is political poison. 

Democrats have distanced themselves from Gruber since the release of the videos. The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer referred to him as “some adviser who never worked on our staff” who “expressed an opinion that I completely disagree with,” and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who was House speaker when the ACA passed, said she didn’t know who he was, despite having praised his work in 2009.

Jim Esquea, assistant secretary for legislation at HHS, wrote a letter begging to have Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner seated separately from Gruber.  Esquea is scared silly that photographs taken of the two seated together would be a public relations nightmare for the regime.  O RLY?

Gruber, the self-described “ivory tower guy” had laid low since the videos became a flashpoint claiming, “Anything I say will just feed the haters.”

The Daily Caller is reporting that Tea Party Patriots will be handing out 250 t-shirts with Gruber’s likeness with the words “I’m With Stupid” to remind everyone why he will be at the hearing.

Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin told The Daily Caller, “With all that’s going on in the Capitol, we didn’t want Mr. Gruber’s curtain call to go unnoticed. We commemorated his appearance, and in the spirit of the Season, we’d like to offer the Obamacare architect a dozen. He can use them as stocking stuffers for the economically unsophisticated.”

Is 9:30 in the morning too early for popcorn?

Laying Bare This Administration’s Contempt For Americans

Accepting the seductive comfort of self-delusion, this Administration’s apparatchik media shills have demonstrated since 2007 their incuriousness of the man they and they alone placed on a throne of lies.  Their requisite authority exists to deceive the public nowadays.

The lies are now piling thick, fast and mountain high.

The story of Obamacare is Machiavellian:  “Never attempt to win by force what can be won by deception.”

During a press conference at the G20 summit in Brisbane, Australia, The World’s Most Dangerous Community Organizer said Gruber was “some adviser who never worked on our staff.”

Gruber visited the White House more than a dozen times, according to official visitor logs. One of those meetings took place in the Oval Office with none other than TWMDCO.

The Gruber tapes were roiling the Internet by Veterans Day with only one news outlet covering the story.  Several days later CBS mentioned it on an early morning show.  By Sunday, Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation confessed he was “dumbstruck” by his “stupid American voters” comment opining, “What we have here is another example of the sorry state of American politics where people take money for things in which they don't believe and whether it's good for the American people is not even a question.  As for the president, he may want to consider that old politician's prayer—Lord, I can take care of my enemies, just protect me from my friends.”

Nine days after the shitstorm erupted, ABC and NBC decided to report on what actually lay behind the honeyed rhetoric—something Dr. Charles Krauthammer succinctly illustrated—“the arrogance of an academic liberalism, so perfectly embodied in the Gruber Confession, that rules in the name of a citizenry it mocks, disdains and deliberately, contemptuously deceives.”

Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Guess What’s Racist Now

Kaitlyn Schallhorn, of Campus Reform, reported yesterday that students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota cancelled an event to celebrate the end of the school year after complaints that bringing a camel on campus could offend those of Middle Eastern cultures—an empirical example of opposition to tyranny cowering in the corner.

Aaron Macke, group advisor for the Residence Hall Association, said the intention of the event was “to have a little fun, bring students together.”

A Facebook page was created and was soon bristling with indignant comments suggesting the event was insulting to Middle Eastern cultures, an example of animal cruelty and even environmentally unfriendly.   

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that last December the university brought a reindeer to campus for the same purpose. No protests ensued.

The North Pole was contacted for comment.  There was no response to our query prior to publishing this post.

Do I like the fact that we have to spend energy on explaining why camels aren't racist? No. But here we are....
— Will Antonin (@Will_Antonin) May 16, 2014

You can't bring a camel with you to school in Minnesota. Joy is officially dead.
— Chris Barnhart (@ChrisBarnhart) May 16, 2014

Yeah, camels can be pretty racist, but koalas are straight up the Ku Klux Klan of the animal kingdom.
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 16, 2014

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