Murphy on Gruber, Part 2: Who Even Knew Who Obamacare Crafter Was?

On Saturday, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted about the “irrelevance” of “this Gruber guy,” also known as MIT professor and Obamacare crafter Jonathan Gruber. He’s been caught on camera many times now banking on the “stupidity of the American voter” to get the healthcare bill through.

“It’s sad to me that good political journalists are spending so much time on these irrelevant comments by this guy Gruber,” Murphy tweeted, to which CNN’s Jake Tapper responded, “Respectfully, it’s sad to me that some politicians would claim the comments are irrelevant.” Murphy later replied:

@jaketapper Point is, it’d be hard to find many legislators who voted for #hcr who knew who Gruber was before last week.

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) November 15, 2014

@ChrisMurphyCT he helped write the bill, and he’s describing ways it was misrepresented to the public. Re: Cadillac tax, bending cost curve

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 15, 2014

Define many @ChrisMurphyCT? He gets cited a lot by lawmakers, just look at some archives here: https://t.co/8zhsZtjtFy @jaketapper

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) November 15, 2014

@ChrisMurphyCT @jaketapper Your House committee knew who Gruber was. Posted his report praising bill. http://t.co/UXbFWdAIFd

— Morgen (@morgenr) November 15, 2014