Perhaps lying about 404care to get it rammed down our throats wasn’t such a great idea after all:

RomneyCare/ObamaCare Architect Jonathan Gruber Is Having A Bad Week

First, the State of Vermont stopped paying him when it came to light he held Americans in such low regard. The state’s auditor has found some fishy items in Gruber’s billing and has asked the state’s AG to investigate the matter.

Now comes word that the new Republican Governor of Massachusetts has fired him from the state’s exchange board.

Still, I suppose it beats what happened to Hans Gruber. :-)

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

–Abraham Lincoln

Polls Indicate America May Be Doomed

Far too many people simply have no concept of the sacrifices it took to win our freedom, and what it takes to maintain it. A recent Rasmussen Report highlights that disturbing fact in a way that makes me worry that this generation will be the one that sells us all into slavery to tyranny.

Rasmussen conducted a telephone poll of 800 likely voters that asked respondents “Should the president have the right to ignore federal court rulings if they are standing in the way of actions he feels are important for the country?” The results of this poll are mind blowing, and disturbing.

According to Rasmussen, 26% of those polled believe the President should have the right to ignore federal court rulings. It is not surprising that Democrats were more likely to believe this, with a full 43% saying he should be able to ignore the courts while only 35% believe otherwise. This represents a plurality of Democrats who believe the federal courts should have no ability to prevent the President from acting outside the law!

Since he’s a Democrat, he’ll never be held responsible for this stunning lack of judgment:

Missouri Governor Ordered National Guard To Stand Down

Missouri Democratic Governor Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard not to patrol Ferguson during the first night of destructive riots after police officer Darren Wilson’s grand jury exoneration in the Michael Brown shooting case.

Businesses were burned that November night and 20-year old DeAndre Joshua was shot to death in a burned car.

Among many other things, this is on him:

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Corruption?  By officials in the 0bama regime?  That’s unpossible!

HUD captured by lobbyists

A top executive of a trade association that lobbies for local housing authorities was hired by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to regulate those same authorities — and was allowed to keep her paid job at the lobbying association at the same time.

HUD’s Inspector General said the 2011 hiring of Debra Gross, deputy director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, was an “inherent conflict of interest” in the same way it would be to hire an Exxon lobbyist to regulate oil companies.

In taking the job as HUD’s deputy assistant secretary for public housing project policy, Gross insisted on a $200,000 salary, which is higher than the government pay scale. After starting the job, she was also given several performance bonuses without having performance reviews.

And once at HUD she hired other industry advocates onto her staff. She made it a big priority of her office to scrap oversight scrutiny of housing authorities. Gross and her staff then lobbied for the housing authorities to have the power to pay higher salaries to administrators, to let them turn federal dollars into “profit” and to lower performance metrics they had to report, the inspector general says.

Gross was hired by Assistant Secretary Sandra B. Henriquez to head the federal agency’s Office of Policy, Program and Legislative Initiatives for Public and Indian Housing while continuing to hold her post at the industry group, which represents city-run housing authorities that get billions of HUD dollars annually.

There’s more at the link.

Keep this in mind the next time they try to brag about their economic “recovery:”

Whistleblower: Pelosi Covered Up Gov’t Role In Housing Crisis

Subprime Scandal: We’ve long suspected the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission wasn’t honest in examining events before the meltdown. But an ex-commissioner says the probe was actually a full-blown political cover-up.

In a just-released book, former FCIC member Peter Wallison says that a Democratic Congress worked with the commission’s Democratic chairman to whitewash the government’s central role in the mortgage debacle. The conspiracy helped protect some of the Democrats’ biggest stars from scrutiny and accountability while helping justify the biggest government takeover of the financial sector since the New Deal.

Wallison’s sobering, trenchantly written “Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again” reveals that the Democrat-led panel buried key data proving that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and other federal agencies pushed the housing market over the subprime cliff. The final FCIC report put the blame squarely on Wall Street.

In 2009, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed her California pal Phil Angelides, a long-time Democrat operative, to lead the commission. The fix seemed to be in, and Wallison’s account of the inner workings of the 10-member body confirms it.