smittyoneeach's Journal: Admiring the Administration's efforts to play drums and guitar simultaneously

. . ."Getting the Facts Straight on Health Care Reform," was written by Gruber for The New England Journal of Medicine in December 2009.
Breitbart has since learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used this same article to defend itself in the case filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia. In the lawsuit, the Commonwealth argued that Congress has exceeded its Article 1 powers in enacting Obamacare. Page six of HHSâ(TM)s October 4, 2010, Reply Memorandum in Support of Defendant's Motion for Summary Judgment states:

The "guaranteed issue" and "community rating" reforms are regulations of insurance policies placed into Interstate commerce, and those reforms depend directly on the minimum coverage provision to work. See, e,g., Jonathan Gruber, Getting the Facts Straight on Health Care Reform, 361 NEW ENGL.J. OF MED. 2497, 2498 (2009).

HHSâ(TM)s use of the Gruber article raises a key question: Why would the Obama administration and Obamacare supporters claim that the presidentâ(TM)s health care law contained a "typo" stating only state exchanges are eligible for subsidies if the Obama administration itself used an article by Obamacare architect Gruber stating the exact opposite?

My question is: Given the thorough, systemic, nonstop falsehood involved in all stages of ObamaCare, from wee intellectual tumor through full bureaucratic metastasis, how does anyone expect any good to come of this? How does it begin to be possible to trust these clowns to do anything whatsoever, including delivering any aspect of health care? When they are done, and give it all a "My bad", and then peddle their real goal, Single Payer, by what miracle shall they have become trustworthy?

You missed a couple memes, there

[damn_registrars]

You rolled several of your favorites together in that one, but you missed a few:

• Hillary Clinton
• Racist
• Benghazi

C'mon smitty, bring it on home. Wrap 'em all together into one nice package and tell us how this is the cherry on top.

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[smittyoneeach]

I suppose I could offer a link to a picture of the overall summary, a cesspool. Would that enhance your nostalgie de la boue [merriam-webster.com] ?

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[fustakrakich]

Such beautiful prose! Oh. my, if only you had told it ten or fifteen (or fifty! had you been around to see it) years ago, it would actually have truly profound meaning. Now? Eh... The door has always been wide open, and still is...

I don't get it

[smittyoneeach]

How is it you think that timeless truth has some temporal parameter?

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[fustakrakich]

"Truth" has no meaning here. And I certainly get nowhere when I bring it up. You're just hitching a ride on a bandwagon full of putzes until your Reagan zombies are back in the saddle.

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[smittyoneeach]

(a) Truth is meaningless,
(b) still, you have proffered it,
(c) to no effect,
(d) because #ZombieReaganauts.

Looks like I picked the ronngg week to stop snorting Drano.

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[fustakrakich]

HA! When did you ever quit?

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[smittyoneeach]

Ya got me. I didn't.