{"id":7180,"date":"2014-11-20T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/megalextoria.wordpress.com\/?p=7180"},"modified":"2014-11-20T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:25:36","slug":"rand-paul-deceitful-obamacare-henchmen-should-return-money-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/11\/20\/rand-paul-deceitful-obamacare-henchmen-should-return-money-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul: \u2018Deceitful\u2019 Obamacare \u2018Henchmen\u2019 Should Return Money Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/politics\/?x=entry:entry141120-212555\">Rand Paul: \u2018Deceitful\u2019 Obamacare \u2018Henchmen\u2019 Should Return Money Made<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gruber referred to \u201clack of transparency\u201d as key to passing Obamacare at several academic conferences in 2012. He also made explicit reference to the \u201cstupidity of the American voter\u201d as \u201ccritical to getting this thing passed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Although Obama claims that Gruber was merely \u201csome advisor\u201d who \u201cnever worked on our staff,\u201d Gruber is actually an MIT economist who helped create the Obamacare law. The Obama administration had paid Mr. Gruber $380,000 in 2009, cited him several times in hearings and White House blogs, and even dedicated a webpage to his expert analysis. Visitor logs show Gruber meeting repeatedly with senior officials at the White House including one meeting with President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rand Paul: \u2018Deceitful\u2019 Obamacare \u2018Henchmen\u2019 Should Return Money Made Gruber referred to \u201clack of transparency\u201d as key to passing Obamacare at several academic conferences in 2012. He also made explicit reference to the \u201cstupidity of the American voter\u201d as \u201ccritical to getting this thing passed.\u201d &#8230; Although Obama claims that Gruber was merely \u201csome advisor\u201d who \u201cnever worked on our staff,\u201d Gruber is actually an MIT economist who helped create the Obamacare law. The Obama administration had paid Mr. Gruber $380,000 in 2009, cited him several times in hearings and White House blogs, and even dedicated a webpage to his expert analysis. Visitor logs show Gruber meeting repeatedly with senior officials at the White House including one meeting with President Obama. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[1252],"class_list":["post-7180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}