In other cases I simply made insulting and mean comments that are totally uncalled for in any situation. “I am not an expert on politics and my tone implied that I was, which is wrong. “In excerpts of these videos I am shown making a series of glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments”, Gruber told the committee. Gruber – whose models also helped then Mitt Romney, then the governor of Massachusetts, design the state healthcare legislation known as “Romneycare” – went in front of the Oversight Committee on Tuesday to apologise, grovel, and be righteously chastised. Republicans eagerly portrayed Gruber as an “architect” of Obamacare whose comments prove that the American public was misled on the legislation, while Democrats, including the President, quickly distanced themselves from him. The comments ignited a political firestorm. In several of the videos, Gruber referred to the American people as “stupid,” and in one he said that the bill was purposely written “in a tortured way,” and that its “lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.” Gruber became a controversial figure in the ongoing battle by Republicans to undermine Obamacare in November, when videos surfaced of him saying at various events that the Affordable Care Act was crafted and presented misleadingly to the American people.
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