Part of the problem with the Jonathan Gruber \u201cstupid\u201d story is that it\u2019s a shiny object for the political world to stare at for a while. It offers more heat than light. It\u2019s a bouncing ball for political insiders to chase after, despite its relative insignificance.<\/p>\n
But since it\u2019s likely to soon be the subject of congressional hearings, and since your crazy uncle who watches Fox News all day will be talking about nothing else at Thanksgiving, let\u2019s grudgingly tackle this week\u2019s Most Important Story Of All Time As Agreed Upon By Republicans And The Beltway Media.
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\nWhat about the notion that a \u201clack of transparency\u201d created a \u201chuge political advantage\u201d? At face value, that doesn\u2019t even make any sense \u2013 the entirety of the ACA process couldn\u2019t have been much more transparent. There were countless open hearings, debates, meetings, and reports, all played out under the spotlight over the course of a year. Congressional Republicans have worked in secret, behind closed doors, on an ACA alternative for five years, but the process of creating \u201cObamacare\u201d was the polar opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So the question is, are you really prepared for Thanksgiving this year?<\/p>\n
Well, chalk up another one\u00a0 for a professor from my alma mater.\u00a0 Do you think this might lower the value of consulting gigs for MIT professors?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was quite skeptical of the Gruber video that was out of\u00a0 context, highly edited, had skips and jumps, and cut off Gruber’s words at strategic moments.\u00a0 The video was more intent on making its own point than telling you what Gruber thought. Reader WayneP sent a link to The Washington Post article Who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18843","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18846,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18843\/revisions\/18846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}