And Now, Gruberghazigate, Electric Boogaloo Edition
The entire wingnut universe is screaming in unison, as is their wont, over the SMOKING GUN that’s finally going to DESTROY OBAMACARE, and its name is … Gruber.
Jonathan Gruber, who apparently said something rather impolitic about the Affordable Care Act; he admitted that parts of the bill were written to be … less than clear. In particular, they tried to avoid using the word “tax.” And Gruber publicly used the word “stupid” to refer to American voters, which of course one must never do.
Wingnut Twitter is yelling that the media aren’t covering it enough, but they always do that whenever they have a nice juicy fake outrage — and that’s what this is. It may not be very smart to admit it (because this kind of pearl-clutching is what happens) but anyone who didn’t already know government legislation is sometimes written deliberately to obscure the truth has never read a piece of government legislation, or tried to figure out if a local ballot proposition actually does what it says it does. This ain’t news, and both sides do it all the time.
And it won’t “kill” Obamacare, no matter how much Gruber-related noise the Wingnut Unison Chorus makes.