On Jonathan Gruber and Disclosure

Oh my God, this really sucks! It’s getting better all the time isn’t it!

IDIOTS!!!!!!

Thank you for publishing this. Sadly there was a time not long ago when anything negative about Obama was ignored, minimized or simply hidden. It’s how he got elected and it was irresponsible and unprofessional. Unfortunately I think it’s too late. Congress and the administration are so convinced that they know what is right for all of us that they are no longer listening and don’t care if these policies actually help people. They are particularly dismissive and contemptuous of those of us who actually pay the bills. All they care about is winning; the hell with the consequences. Sad and scary.

It was highly inappropriate for Gruber not to disclose his contractual relationship with HHS, but let’s be clear: the Obama administration didn’t pay him to write the op-ed piece, nor is there any evidence that President Obama himself, or one of his staffers, ordered him to write the piece and deliberately conceal the relationship.
We can rightfully criticize inappropriate actions without making accusations for which there is no basis.

I’m sure this information will be
all over the MSM, and on all three nightly news shows.
Because Obama is all about accountability.

Jake is one of the very few MSM journalists not kissing Obama’s #### every day. Where was everyone else on this story? Lapping up Guber’s every word as another Obama shill – bought and paid for or otherwise. Had Guber taken a position as a prominent Obama critic, rest assured that every aspect of his life would have been scrutinized as closely as Sarah Palin’s second cousins and her mother-in-law.

Again and again we see Obama as a corrupt, terrorist coddling, Socialist president…. His regime borders on the old Soviet Union… nothing but lies and the destruction of Americas constitution

Baloney that he didn;t disclose it…they all knew and hid it hoping it would never be discovered…..

One interesting note: It is only after Mr. Gruber found himself on the other side of BigUnion that he is finally exposed.
To the extent that the herd of experts serve that Democratic Party Special Interest, hands-down the biggest money donor for them, we’ll all be kept in the dark about how badly the nation is being ransomed away by the tyrants now in power and their hirelings.
Follow the money. It won’t be pretty, but it will make real news, and it may save the nation.

do not worry, America’s biggest mistake will be over in about 3 years

Obama doesn’t want us to be informed.
He likes to keep the public naive, dependent and stupid, with the assistance of the media.
The stimulus worked.
We’ve created/saved a million jobs.
It was an attack by an isolated extremist.
Unemployment won’t go above 8%.
HC debates will be on C-SPAN.
I’ll veto earmarks.
Trust him.

A new “era of responsibility”.

So what else is new? Obama and his liberal bought the election. Now he’s buying votes from various Senators to cram his health care bill down our throats. What happened to transparency and broadcasting everything on C-Span?

Obama will surely denounce this, now that the buck stops with him.
Gruber will be held accountable.
That means nothing will happen to him.
Nothing at all.

Obama has a once-in-an-administration chance to fix a growing perception that he is not strong enough to dismiss people who don’t measure up.I don’t think that he has the backbone.

Thank you to Jake Tapper for highlighting this story and so many others that most of the MSM prefer to ignore.

TJ; You are absolutely correct.

Yes TJ,nobody has been in the Mass. statehouse since Mitt Rommney.And there is no Mass.legislature.And there is nobody in the current White House.

Is this any different than what Betsey McCoughey did in the midst of Clinton’s health care reform attempt? I know it doesn’t make it right, but quite frankly, to say this isn’t business as usual is a little naive.

So glad I have the opportunity to vote for Scott Brown in a week or so. The Democratic Party is corrupt, filthy, and disgusting. You’ll get yours in November. And I’m going to savor every minute of it.

Whatever happened to Ross Perot. I need someone to believe in. The Republicans only care about the wealthy, and now the President we put in office, for his promises, are taking care of the low income, leaving the middle class to foot the bill for everyone. Thank You Mr. President. You are helping me to become one of the poor. Maybe I should quit my job to qualify for your health care reform.

We want jake Tapper on This Week. We absolutely do not want anything to do with Ted Koppel’s form of Liberalism. We need someone who has the Kahunna’s to ask the hard questions and it seems to me the ONLY one at ABC who has for a very long time the guts to ask any questions at all is Jake Tapper. I am a long time viewer if you go some gooey soft Liberal I am out….I am just tired of this foolishness. I am hungry for news real news. The kind in this article.

I’m sure having contracts with this administration didn’t influence his opinion at all. Wink, wink!

Typical Obama hack. So much for transparency.

Why should anyone be disillusioned? Sure, the masses dripped tears of joy at the New Chapter of American politics with Obama, the soaring rhetoric…and totally discounted his meager, meager resume for the top job. Mere trust, faith reigned. Astoundingly (after a campaign of lofty moralistic rhetoric) one of Obama’s FIRST acts was to nominate THREE tax cheats in a row for top positions. Geithner got through Congress. But Daschle and a woman nominee withdrew their nomination the day the New York Times posted an editorial on the issue. The reaction of Americans scared me–the masses were ASLEEP and non-critical even after knowing this and I feared Obama changing the landscape of America with virtually no legitimate criticism or checks on executive power. Again and again he would push an agenda, only to find that those he was foisting it on would not buy it. At which point he would salvage what he could or “re-frame” the agenda to look better. I had no problem with a black person in the White House–but I feared Obama’s rule would set back the chance of a truly great black holding the post down the road. He was “the Uniter,” but America may be more divided now than ever.

Yea, like the Blackwater Contractors and the Halliburton companies? They has never disclosed anything to the public. Do you Know what they do? We, well those that are listening to EVERYTHING knows for sure that they are submitting quarterly INFLATED bills totaling billions for payment by the taxpayers. If it what he stand has been all along, either in his college Theies, it not like he waited until his CEO was elected Vice President and got a Billion dollar Contract and DIDN’T have to BID on it.

$400,000….. And he claims it didn’t influence his opinion, hummmmmmmmm ya…. whatever….. then why didn’t you DISCLOSE it up front……. one more lie for the most “TRANSPARENT” Administration ever……. how many more hacks does BO have on his payroll……. using taxpayer funds to spread his properganda hummmmmmmm…..

I thought this admin. was going to be more open than Bush? How many promnises did BO make to have the health care debate on Cspan?

This is what Obama defines as transparency and what Joe Wilson defines as lies – you decide! But then lots of promise were made on the campaign trail, what makes you think the new kid plans to live up to these promises, after all these lies help get the career politicians elected.

The go to guy that Reporters go to?
Since when do reporters go to a “go to guy” to get their reporters.
Reporters Used to do Real Investigation, dig up everything in the process. Reporters used to do their Own Leg Work.
Now a days, Reporters go to some guy, whether Republican or Democrat, and take that person’s word as Gospel.
I am still waiting for the real answers on a large number of Saudi Detanees from Guantanimo in 2007, some of who were in the Terrorists Rehab Program at Guantanimo, and yet Bush and Cheney stated on National TV that none of the detanees they were releasing in 2007 were Not terrorists.However reports are comming out that soon after they flew back to their Saudi Homeland, they then slipped into Yemen and rejoined Al Qaeda.
Well detanees in a Terrorists Rehab Program are in the program in the first place because “Those Detanees Are Terrorist”. It also Proves that Republicans are worse at Security than Democrats.

So the Dems don’t only “buy” Senators, but they “bribe” scientists as well!! — you’ll do anything for your progressive agenda??? — It question appears rhetorical!

The MSM never bothered to vet Obama when he was on the campaign trail, so why would we expect them to do any better with the people who speak on behalf of his policies now? Nobody wants to believe Obama is what he is. A typical politician. A typical liar. It’s starting to come out only because of a few people out there willing to dig in (as reporters USED to do) and find out the facts. What a shame that our media went from investigative journalism to sensationalized journalism. Ratings and continuing to prop up Obama are all that drive them now. It’s bad enough Jonathan Gruber didn’t disclose his “relationship” with Obama’s administration, but for all this time to lapse without ANYONE checking him out is even worse.

let’s see. our government gives a professor $400,000.00 of our money to consult with them on health care reform. he then writes editorials supporting the administration’s policy proposals but does so with no intention of letting any of his readers know that he’s actually a tool of the government he works for. sounds like propaganda to me. so, how’s the obama administration going to explain away this one? as if we’re to believe that no one in the white house press office was aware of this? and if they aren’t aware that a government employee is do stuff like this, they should all be fired. people need to wake up about what’s obviously going on with this administration.

Actually the “Child Left Behind” was a Teddy Kennedy sponsored bill that Bush got suckered into an attempt work with the Democrats…. a major point the media always likes to overlook..

One more time the Obama administration has proven that they are the only people on the planet who could make the Bush,Cheney appear to have integrity.

Gruber is unfortunately a victim of the corrupt mainstream media culture. Sensing no agency to do the most minimal of investigative reporting, Gruber was at ease breaking all ethical and legal requirements. He fully expects to get away with it; one look at more than half of President Obama’s administration confirms the fact that abject corruption is the pathway to success.
Corruption is and unchecked, it becomes pervasive. Democrats have the media to blame for their failure to expose unethical and criminal practice and increasingly, their desire to be involved in that practice itself. Hopefully no journalist will be surprised that professionals in the private sector will neither hire nor associate with their type. When I see a journalism degree or like experience on a resume, it’s thrown in the trash. Nobody from such a corrupt institution can be trusted in any role where ethical conduct is necessary.

…although I (Gruber) was paid extremely big bucks by the Obama administration while the pay czar was gutting the pay out of a lot of guys in “free enterprise,” I find this whole thing nothing more than another loose marble rolling around the floor of the West Wing. Give us a break, willya “leaders”????????????

Just shows that you can “buy” any expert opinion that you want….. I find it amazing that it took a blogger to find it out…… WHAT do you do ABC…. just parrot the Administration without checking into ANYTHING ???.

When will ALL Americans figure out the health care bill is just a LOBBY scam,,,,just like the bank bailouts were a LOBBY scam,,,,,,WAKE UP AMERICA,,,,BOTH parties are in reality the East coast version of the crypts and the bloods,NEITHER PARTY represents the people ,,,they are loyal to the LOBBY DOLLAR and its personal and party rewards for betraying the people.Its hard to believe after ALL the BS BOTH parties have pulled,,,,that ANYONE will support them,,,,I guess party liners are GLUTTONS for punishment.

good thing i am sitting down, FINALLY BO is being alled out on something he did wrong. we all know there is alotta fertile material out there on him. lets hope this is just the beginning of showing BO for how he really is, enuff secrecy, enuff hype.. first there was tiger, then there was barry seoturo

We get it! Threat of a pound of flesh for union bosses in the obama-care boondoggle and pronto some daily kos twit and/or a “reporter” discovers dirty laundry, deceit, and collusion by mr. slick scientist/economist advocate and the socialist party rulers!
So what’s up w/ scientists and global conspiracies lately — paging al gore!? Or did I mix maxims? It’s actually federal officials and the home-grown variety we should question, like as the ones over at CBO who admitted — AFTER passage mind you! — that their original obama-care deficit reduction analysis had ‘errors’ — whopper of 40% “error”!!! Now that’s chutzpah!
But never mind that….it’s ALL gone to the dogs already: government, scientists, reporters, everything.

The government should ask for their money back. 65% of the American public do not want this abortion of a bill, he obviously did not do his job and should not be paid.

Compare this story to the NY Times reported “scandal” of former DOD people repeating talking points – such Hypocrisy.

Hey! If they pay me, I’ll support it too and quit trashing it on ABC forums.

Since Gruber broke his contract, he should be required to return every red cent to the taxpayers. Of course, that would be the honorable and scholarly thing to do, something that appears to be missing in this administration.

And this administration differs from those that went before by what measure? Someone try and tell me that none of the current president’s men knew of this and let it slide. The real surprise is that ABC finally had to admit it missed the boat.

“Flush” Congress for the next three election cycles. No matter which party your representative is a member, the obvious lack of intelligent (and honest) opposition to this degradation of our country must not be tolerated…lest we lose her forever!

Clearly, a ‘trust me’ situation.

“Gruber’s nearly $400,000 contract with the Obama administration seems to have first been noticed by a citizen-journalist-blogger, Mote Date at Daily Kos.”
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So it looks like all the so-called mainstream media should be fired since they no longer serve the purpose they should. Regular citizens are now acting as the watchdogs instead of the media who are too busy oohing and aahing over their “cool” president.

gk said, “So it looks like all the so-called mainstream media should be fired since they no longer serve the purpose they should.”
Does that include FOX?
Then ‘not a sheep’ said, “How come americans can allow such a a monstrous bill to pass down thru our throats without proper representation?”
Go look up the definition of Congress. These are the people WE elected to be our representatives. If you are unhappy with their performance, then work to vote them out of office. But don’t claim that you aren’t represented just because you disagree with the ideology of the majority party in power…..

Will someone PLEASE point out that this health care debacle is in the forefront of the many reasons why privately held businesses are in a financial panic. I am a 44 year old business owner. My wife and I will be dropping health insurance for our family this month. I am in a fight for my business life and if things don’t change in the next 3 months we run a high risk of being added to the terrible statistics. I have been in business almost 15 years and all I want is the politicians to shutup, sit down and let the free economy happen. If GM has to file for bankruptcy, so be it. We have laws for that. We won’t stop buying GMC trucks for our business just because they hit rough times. Tell everyone in Washington to look at themselves and cut their own pay, stop lifetime pensions, provide their own retirement, buy their own health care and get us the hell out of debt! Governments are like businesses, they are a reflection of the highest position. If you are fiscally broke at the highest level it will eventually show all the way to the lowest. (It is the same with general character) Get our government out of debt! It will hurt and some will scream but it is in everyone’s best interests that this take place as soon as possible. Stop all grants that are not intrinsic to the national interest. Give Washington a 25% pay cut across the board. We spend almost as much on pensions in Washington as we do security and military. The Republi-Crats are killing us…