Obama and Emanuel Told Staffers to Brush Up on Gruber's Fake Numbers

 

 "Sources told Politico's Mike Allen in November 2009 that Obama was so keyed up about a Ron Brownstein blog post at The Atlantic's political website that he made it mandatory reading for the West Wing.

What was so urgent about Obama's must-read that his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, assigned the article as homework at a White House meeting and, according to an administration official, told senior staffers "not to come back to the next day's meeting if they hadn't read the article"?

Here's Brownstein's opening line in the November 21, 2009 piece, entitled "A Milestone in the Health Care Journey":

When I reached Jonathan Gruber on Thursday, he was working his way, page by laborious page, through the mammoth health care bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had unveiled just a few hours earlier.

After wading through 2,600 “laborious” pages, Brownstein wrote that Gruber was elated the Reid bill included everything he thought of doing in "bending the cost curve."

 

[American Thinker]