A few weeks ago, President Obama played the lead role in the annual White House Turkey Pardon farce. He looked upon the biggest, fattest, most privileged and whitest turkey in America … and promptly pardoned it. (more…) Continue Reading →
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From the Outpost: On stupid voters (present company excepted)
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Jonathan Gruber got himself—and the Obama administration—into trouble last week when a tape surfaced in which he referred to the “stupidity of the American voter.”
The context made it worse. Mr. Gruber, an economist at MIT who had a hand in writing the Affordable Care Act, praised lack of transparency about the bill and said that it was written in a “tortured way” so the Congressional Budget Office would not score the individual mandate as a tax. (more…) Continue Reading →