In the latest video to emerge from the crazy, mixed-up video files of Jonathan Gruber, President Obama’s attempt to distance himself from the obnoxious godfather of Obamacare meets a new challenge deriving from a 2006 flashback. In this golden oldie, Barack Obama pays tribute to the man who (video below)…
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had “stolen” ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
“You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally,” Obama said. “People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice.”
We await word on precisely what ideas Obama will cop to stealing “liberally” from Gruber. No doubt Obama’s creative juices are flowing to come up with something, anything other than Gruber’s deep thoughts on “health care reform.”
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