{"id":7783,"date":"2014-11-14T19:19:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:19:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-11-14T19:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T19:19:33","slug":"how_pajama_boy_gruber_teamed_up_with_ted_kennedy_to_rip_off_the_american_taxpayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/11\/14\/how_pajama_boy_gruber_teamed_up_with_ted_kennedy_to_rip_off_the_american_taxpayer\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pajama Boy Gruber Teamed Up with Ted Kennedy to Rip Off the American Taxpayer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Now, we have heard today Jonathan Gruber and we played the audio sound bite<\/a>, Jonathan Gruber, MIT economist, the scam artist, the con artist disguised as an economist professor at MIT, running around as Pajama Boy metrosexual bragging and bragging about how they scammed this group and that group, and they lied about what was in Obamacare \u2019cause they had to. The American people are too stupid, couldn\u2019t figure out the brilliance of the plan, and they had to do a couple other scams. And, man, it was so cool and so cool, and gets all these people laughing at the scams they pulled off. <\/p>\n

Today, Obama, on schedule, is acting like he knew nothing about it and is livid, angry as he can be about it. Heads are gonna roll. Nobody at the White House knew about this. Nobody at the White House is in on this. Hell, Gruber, I barely remember the name. Pelosi said she never heard of Gruber, except for when she worked with him. Gruber also credited Ted Kennedy with coming up with a really clever scam that scammed, what was it, $400 million from the Feds in Massachusetts for Romneycare. <\/p>\n

Yeah, he was the architect of Romneycare as well. That\u2019s why the Regime hired him to do Obamacare, \u2019cause he was the economic intellectual egghead that got all the credit for Romneycare. And he\u2019s got this sound bite today where he praises Ted Kennedy\u2019s coming up with this brilliant scam to help Massachusetts trick the Feds, as he referred them, in paying for a lot of Romneycare in Massachusetts. So people said, “What did he do?” Well, there\u2019s a story in The Daily Caller<\/a> about this. <\/p>\n

“In several of Gruber\u00c2\u2019s lectures, which are available online –” Drive-By Media only yesterday beginning to get to this, “– the MIT economist walks his audience through the process of how Obamacare came into being. ‘We had a pretty powerful senator you may have heard of, Ted Kennedy. … Ted Kennedy had managed to figure out a way to rip off the federal Medicaid program to the tune of about $500 million a year through a series of strange manipulations.'” This is Gruber actually explaining to an applauding audience. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, folks, by the way, don\u2019t misunderstand something here. I\u2019m not naive. I don\u2019t think this is the first scam that\u2019s ever been. That\u2019s not the reason why we\u2019re all incredulous. These are bank robbers in the federal government applauding each other and wanting applause and bragging about how they robbed the bank. And nobody\u2019s talking about that. What they\u2019re talking about here is Gruber\u2019s insult of the American people as being stupid. <\/p>\n

Nobody\u2019s talking about the fraud that existed in putting this thing together. Nobody is talking about how Gruber admits this whole thing is a fraud. The whole thing is illegitimate. The whole thing is against the law. And they\u2019re bragging about how they did it, and they\u2019re bringing up Ted Kennedy\u2019s name from the grave, as a great guy, he figured out a way to rip off the federal Medicaid program. <\/p>\n

How many times have we heard Democrats run around accusing the Republicans of wanting to cut Medicaid, cut Medicare, cut Social Security, and in the process, people are supposed to hate the Republicans. The Republicans are mean-spirited extremists. They\u2019re just dirty and rotten to the core. They don\u2019t care about old people, and they don\u2019t care about gays. They don\u2019t care about women, and they don\u2019t care about kids. They don\u2019t care about anybody. They hate everybody! They love pollution. They love dirty water. They love dirty air. They love stinky skies. They love giant airplanes. They love running roughshod over everybody. <\/p>\n

And it\u2019s all lies. <\/p>\n

And here come the same people who accuse the Republicans of cutting Medicaid and cutting Medicare and cutting Social Security and kicking old people out of their houses, bragging about how they do it, bragging about how they get away with it. And nobody\u2019s even talking about the that aspect of this. Well, I am. And, by the way, it\u2019s fine to be focused on what Gruber said about how they had to convince the American people \u2019cause they\u2019re a bunch of stupid idiots, had to lie to them, brag about that. But, I mean, these are the people that run around accusing Republicans and conservatives of basically being human debris and reprobates, false accusations, lying about Republicans all day every day, sunup to sundown. And here they are, one of their leading lights, Jonathan Gruber — ooh, big whoop — running around bragging about how they actually do it and being applauded for it. <\/line><\/p>\n

(imitating Gruber) “We had a pretty powerful senator. You may have heard of Ted Kennedy. He managed to figure out a way to rip off the federal Medicaid program to the tune of $500 million a year through a series of strange manipulations. Here was Mitt Romney\u2019s dirty little secret that we don\u2019t like to talk about in Massachusetts, which is the way we passed our law is the federal government paid for it.” The federal government pays for nothing until it takes money away from everybody in the form of taxes. The federal government pays for nothing. The American taxpayer paid for Romneycare, and Ted Kennedy was behind the screw job. And Gruber wants credit for this and wants applause for this. <\/p>\n

Gruber further went on to say, George Bush saw what was going on, and he said, “Why am I sending this Democrat $500 million a year, I\u00c2\u2019m taking it back.” We\u2019re not gonna give Massachusetts $500 million a year. “Gruber explained, adding ‘Mitt Romney, to his credit, went to George Bush and said, “Look, can we keep the money if we use it for universal coverage.” And Bush to his credit said yes.'”<\/p>\n

Okay, so the next phase is, Ted Kennedy finds a way to scam $500 million a year from Medicaid — remember, it was the Republicans that were gonna cut Medicaid — finds a way to scam $500 million, Bush finds out about, “To hell with this.” And Romney says, “Wait a minute, wait a minute. What if we use that money for universal care, universal coverage?” Meaning, everybody will get covered. And supposedly Bush said, “Well, if we\u2019re gonna put it to that kind of use, then okay.” <\/p>\n

Gruber said, “We realized that we can\u00c2\u2019t do this at the state level anymore. The Feds are going to have to get involved.” So Ted Kennedy was allowed to do it and get away with it and be applauded for doing it in Massachusetts, but now when we move forward to Obamacare, there\u2019s nobody to scam. Who\u2019s the federal government gonna scam, the ChiComs? Massachusetts could go to the Federal Treasury to get money; where\u2019s the US government gonna go? Borrow it or print it or what have you. <\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t think most people know this, but Medicaid was always supposed to be paid for and run by the states. If Massachusetts happened to get a little too liberal with their Medicaid, why should the rest of us have to pay the price? But that\u2019s what happened. In other words, Ted Kennedy, state of Massachusetts, they didn\u2019t have the money for Romneycare. It should have died right there. There wasn\u2019t the money for it. But that didn\u2019t matter. With liberal Democrats that\u2019s never the answer. “Oh, there isn\u2019t any money? Well, where we gonna get it, then?” So they scam the program. They scam<\/line><\/p>\n

the Feds. <\/p>\n

“Gruber followed a similar script in other lectures, including one at Washington University in St. Louis last year and another at the University of Rhode Island in 2012. At the University of Rhode Island event, Gruber said Kennedy was ‘delivering about $400 million a year in slush funds to our SafeNet hospitals, basically ripping off the federal Medicaid program.'”<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s $500 million or $400 million, but Gruber\u2019s running around bragging about how all this happened. The Washington Times <\/a>treatment of this bears the headline: “Taxpayers Paid Millions for the Deceptions of the Obamacare Architect — The MIT economist who is the brains behind Obamacare has made quite a stir with his admission that President Obama\u2019s health care takeover was built on lies.<\/p>\n

“Mr. Gruber says he was willing to say and do whatever it took to advance the scheme, and now it\u2019s clear why. Obamacare made Mr. Gruber a multimillionaire, and at the expense of the taxpayers.” Now, I think we were among the first to mention that Gruber was getting paid $400,000 to lie to us. But it turns out that he was actually being paid millions of dollars. It was just the first contract that was the $400,000. He ended up getting millions of dollars. <\/p>\n

Notice this still isn\u2019t the Drive-By Media reporting this. This is still the Washington Times, which is considered to be conservative media. The news that he was being paid millions is found in an editorial here in the Washington Times. The Drive-Bys haven\u2019t even gotten to it. There is a Washington Post fact-check story on some of this stuff, but most low-information readers…<\/p>\n