Washington Post Columnists Attack Jonathan Gruber

I don't know if the Washington Post has taken an official position on the veracity of Jonathan Gruber, but its columnists are having a field day attacking President Obama and the entire Obamacare structure,  They rely on Gruber's straightforward, cynical explanations of what the administration was doing to get the bill passed.  Yesterday's newspaper (November 17) contain an interesting column by Marc Theissen, entitled "Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for Revealing Obamacare Deception."   He suggests that "The reason Democrats are running from Gruber is the same reason conservatives should be thanking him: Gruber has exposed what liberals really think of the American people".   Last week, Charles Krauthammer wrote on "The Gruber Confession."  His view was that"Gruber's admission that, in order to get it passed, the bill was made deliberately obscure and deceptive constitutes the ultimate vindication of the charge that Obama care was sold on a pack of lies".

On the other hand, the New York Times in an editorial yesterday entitled "The Impolitic Jonathan Gruber" laments the ammunition he has provided opponents of Obamacare, and claims that he really wasn't that important, and his frank statements are "largely wrong".  Its basic point is don't believe him, even if what he says was correct.  However, it is very difficult for it to show that we shouldn't believe our "lying eyes."