NOAH ROTHMAN: This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging.

Related: Jon Stewart: Democrats Need To “Come Clean” On ObamaCare Lies.

CHARLES BLAHOUS: Gruber and Barro Are Wrong to Assume the Public is Stupid. “Jonathan Gruber, Josh Barro and others are trying to persuade you that others’ failures of integrity, analysis, and policy design are your fault, simply for wanting a better healthcare market. Do not believe them. They are wrong on the ethics and wrong on the substance.”

DAVID DAYEN: Why Gruber-Gate Is So Devastating To Democrats. “The growing impression that politicians don’t play straight with their constituents is completely toxic, particularly to Democrats, who actually want to use government to improve people’s lives. It’s one thing to downplay unpalatable choices made in the law; it’s another to never disclose the consequences of legislation until it’s too late for anyone to react. Combine that with the moustache-twirling of a Jonathan Gruber, saying that the idiots should be happy for what they got, and you have basically every conservative stereotype about liberal elites confirmed.”

NOAH ROTHMAN: This Gruber-gate supercut video is positively enraging.

Related: Jon Stewart: Democrats Need To “Come Clean” On ObamaCare Lies.

They pay EVERYBODIES fair share!

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New CBO study shows that ‘the rich’ don’t just pay their ‘fair share,’ they pay almost everybody’s share

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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released its annual report on “The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes” analyzing data through 2011 on American household’s: a) average “market income” (a comprehensive measure that includes labor income, business income, and income from capital gains), b) average household transfer payments (payments and benefits from federal, state and local governments including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance), and c) average federal taxes paid by households (including income, payroll, corporate, and excise taxes). Some of the key findings of the CBO analysis are displayed in the table above, with the data organized by household income quintiles. The data in the first five rows above appear in the CBO report (from Tables 1 and 4), and rows 6-8 above have been calculated separately based on data from the first four rows in the table.

The CBO report received attention and commentary this week from John Merline at Investor’s Business Daily (“New CBO Report Explodes Tax Fairness Myths”), Reason’s Nick Gillespie (“3 Charts About Income Inequality, Transfers, and Taxes”), AEI’s Jim Pethokoukis (“Here is what’s really happening to middle-class incomes and inequality”), Heritage Foundation’s Curtis Dubay (“The Richest 1 Percent of Americans Pay 24 Percent of Federal Taxes”) and former economist Paul Krugman (“Why the One Percent Hates Obama”).

Some additional analysis and commentary will be provided here that reveal a yet-to-be discussed major implication of the CBO report – almost the entire burden: a) of all transfer payments made to American households and b) of all non-financed government spending, falls on just one group of Americans – the top one-fifth of US households by income. That’s correct, the CBO study shows that the bottom three income quintiles representing 60% of US households are “net recipients” (they receive more in transfer payments than they pay in federal taxes), the second-highest income quintile pays just slightly more in federal taxes ($14,800) than it receives in government transfer payments ($14,100), while the top 20% of American “net payer” households finance 100% of the transfer payments to the bottom 60%, as well as almost 100% of the tax revenue collected to run the federal government. Here are the details of that analysis.

Can you say "denial?" DNC Email Signed by Obama: 'The Republicans Had a Good Night, But Our Results Were Better'

Obama Boasts 'Momentum' Ahead of Executive Amnesty Decision

EVERYTHING OBAMA TOUCHES: “When Barack Obama took office, he was hailed as a liberal savior. His presidency, it was believed, would usher in a new era of progressive dominance not seen since Roosevelt. Instead, Republicans have been restored to a position of power across the country they had not known since Al Smith lost 40 states to Herbert Hoover. Far from revitalizing it, Obama has erased generations of the Democratic Party’s progress.”

Glenn Reynolds:  Six Bills The GOP Congress Should Pass.

George Will:  AN AGENDA FOR THE NEW GOP CONGRESS.

The Nuclear Option: Elections Don't Matter to the 'Towering Arrogance' of Barack Obama

a collection regarding the mid-terms and immigration and Con Law.

Obama Flashback: 'I Don't Really Care to Be President without the Senate'

Sauce for the Gander

Flashback: Obama Argued Illegal Immigration Threatens Wages of Blue-Collar Americans

Five Times Obama Made His Case Against Executive Amnesty - And What He's Saying Now

Boehner's Office Lists 22 Times Obama Argued Against Executive Amnesty

FLASHBACK: Obama Said Executive Amnesty 'Would Not Be Appropriate' For Illegals 'Seeking Economic Opportunity'

Senator Barack Obama, 2008: “The biggest problems that we’re facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that’s what I intend to reverse when I’m president of the United States of America.”

Obama on Moms Who Stay Home to Raise Kids: ‘That’s Not a Choice We Want Americans to Make.’ Of course not. Stay-at-home moms vote Republican.

Related: Mollie Hemingway: 3 Reasons President Obama Is Wrong About Stay-At-Home Mothers. Maybe so, but this is really all about the voting-Republican thing.

I used tio cover this in class, to the disbelief of my non-qualified listeners: Study: Children Raised By Married Parents in Stable Families Attain More Education, Work, and Income

and in the economic freedom side: Majorities in Several States Vote To Punish Low-Skill Workers

The unemployment problem has a MUCH easier solution: Solution to Unemployment Found: Kill the Unemployed

And as for choice, lets not even START with bowling shirts.  Or, rather, lets:

AT REASON: More On Feminism And Funny Shirts. “Reynolds notes that just 23 percent of American women and 20 percent of us overall ‘identify as feminists, even though most are in favor of gender equality.’ A tendency to pivot toward humorless disgust in virtually any situation can’t be helping the numbers.”

MORE THOUGHTS ON FEMINIST SHIRTOPHOBIA FROM GEORGINA YOUNG: One of Humankind’s Greatest Achievements of the Decade overshadowed by Hawaiian Shirt.

The offending shirt which was made for the scientist by a female friend, has received outrage from several outlets, most notably the Verge, for depicting leotard wearing women, and forced Taylor to make a very public apology where he choked back tears. What should be the greatest day of his life has now been tarnished by the wide variety of hate and harassment he has received over wearing the offending item. Harassers made one of the most brilliant men in science cry for his choice of clothing. It would be almost comical if it wasn’t so horrifying.

Indeed.

1 small shirt for a man, 1 giant leap backward for women: How feminists took a major scientific event and made it all about what people were wearing.

AMY ALKON: “On a side note, there’s a certain kind of nerd who wears that kind of shirt, and I’ve always had a soft spot for that guy and the way he sees the world. The sort of hope and love of space fantasy and dream of a bullet-bra’d fantasy woman of that guy is the stuff jobs landing spacecraft on comets are made of.”

Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Explain Why "Lack of Transparency" Was Key to Passing the Health Care Law

Jonathan Gruber, Who Claimed “Lack of Transparency” Was Critical to Passing Obamacare, Now Says the Republican Strategy is to “Confuse” People About the Law

THREE STRIKES: Another video shows Obamacare architect Gruber talking about the ‘exploitation’ of American voters. I wonder how many Senate seats the GOP would have gotten if this had come out two weeks ago?

Voter stupidity remark gives GOP new ammo on ObamaCare.

and then it started getting interesting:

Nancy Pelosi Says She Doesn't Know Who Jonathan Gruber Is. But in 2009, She Cited His Work By Name.

DO TELL: Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber: Obama Was in the Room When the Cadillac Tax Was Created.

ED MORRISSEY: WaPo fact check: Yes, Gruber got $400,000 for ObamaCare work. “Or, if you prefer a more acerbic conclusion, taxpayers paid Jonathan Gruber in the mid-six-figures to lie to them, and then brag about it to all of his friends and fans later.”

And also, as Morrissey notes, to lie to the CBO.

IT’S A TARGET-RICH ENVIRONMENT: Grubered Again! Fifth Video of Liberal Mastermind Surfaces.

HEH: “For five years, Republicans have been searching for the perfect messenger to speak out against Obamacare. They have finally found him. His name in Jonathan Gruber.”

THE HITS KEEP COMING: Gruber Video #6: ‘Mislabeling’ Cadillac Tax to Deceive the Voter.

IT’S NOW A VERB: The Fine Art Of Grubering.

BYRON YORK: GruberGate Shines Spotlight On ObamaCare Profiteers.

DAVID FRENCH: Dear Democrats, Don’t Even Think about Running from Jonathan Gruber.

so this is so long but these are GOOD!  And the hits just keep on coming.

GRUBERGATE HITS COLORADO.

The Colorado Consumer Health Initiative paid Obamacare advocate and administration analyst Jonathan Gruber to produce an “independent” report in support of Colorado’s Health Insurance Exchange in 2011. This work came after the analyst’s failure to disclose his paid work to editors at newspapers which published his columns advocating for the law. The Initiative describes itself as “active supporters” of Obamacare and its implementation here in Colorado.

BARACK OBAMA: I did not mislead America with that man, Jonathan Gruber.

UH OH: Obama: ’Like Your Plan, Keep Your Plan.’ Gruber, 2009: ‘Five Million People Will Lose Their Plan.’ They knew it was a lie all along.

Related: Marc Thiessen: Thanks To Jonathan Gruber, Americans Know What The Political Class Thinks Of them.

Top Senate Democrat: Jonathan Gruber is a 'Very Smart' Person  TSD?  Are there any of those LEFT?

WAIT, A REPORTER ASKING A REAL QUESTION? YOU CAN SEE WHY THEY WOULDN’T KNOW HOW TO RESPOND. Reporter’s Gruber question prompts Obamacare flack’s eyeroll.

Peter Suderman on Why Jonathan Gruber Is Very Much An Obamacare “Architect”

and my favorite:  NEW WHITE HOUSE SPIN: Those Gruber Videos About How We Were Lying To You In 2009? They’re From Way Back In 2009!

Roughriders beat Madiera again ... they last met on the way to WJ's State title in '82.  Next up: Hamilton Badin Rams.  They didn't win a game against a team with a winning record - except last week's playoff game.  Were seeded 7th to our 6th.  Riders by 10, tops.

Over on the college side?  First, the undefeateds.  

Mississippi State.   They'll lose the Egg Bowl.  And one more.  And vanish

FSU.  Will run the table but they are barely a top 20 team.  Can Duke end this long national nightmare?  Sadly, no.  FSU gets a spot and an early exit.

Marshall.  Playing a D II schedule.  Don't call us, we'll call you

The leading one-loss teams.

Alabama.  Last chance to beat them was LSU and it didn't quite happen.  They'll get a spot.

TCU.  IMHO they're the third team in but the voters, pig-headed idiots that they are, might not see it that way.  So they'll just keep winning.

Baylor's good but won't get by TCU.  

Oregon hasn't played a top ten opponent but their flash will get them the final spot, leaving OSU the odd man out.  Along with Baylor.  And TCU.  and some darned good 2 & 3 loss teams.

“PEACE” ACTIVISTS: Pennsylvania Peace Activists Charged in Vicious Attack. ” Two ‘Stop the Violence’ organizers allegedly beat one of their colleagues so severely that he vomited blood and was left unconscious in critical condition. Nikole Ardeno and Emanuel Velez, both 30, accused their former roommate of stealing their property, and allegedly punched and kicked him in the street until he had seizures.”

That “all property is theft” stuff? That’s for other people’s property.

THIS IS HOW THEY ROLL: Yeah, you won our video contest, but we’re changing the rules. “This MoveOn/Mayday video contest, lame though it was, was revealing. When liberals say they want to get money out of politics, they aren’t serious. What they mean is, they want to get conservative money out of politics.”

 I’LL BELIEVE IT’S A CRISIS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO TELL ME IT’S A CRISIS START ACTING LIKE IT’S A CRISIS: Dem Mega-Donor Commutes to Work on Gas-Guzzling Yacht.

Long but readable: DANUSHA GOSKA: Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer A Leftist.

Watch New York voters laugh at a female Democrat for invoking the ‘War on Women.’

Bet they find it in a few months: Senate Ethics Committee Conveniently Misplaces Reid Ethics Complaint

Gallup Shows Democrats' Pet Issues Irrelevant To Voters

Texas Democrat Spanish-Language Ad Calls Tea Partiers ‘Radical Terrorists.’

SAD REFLECTIONS IN THE WAPO: Where did Obama go wrong? I dunno. By being inexperienced, arrogant, narcissistic, and politically thuggish? Among many other reasons. 

 HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Democrats Sink to Pre–Great Depression Levels in State Legislatures. Obama thought he’d be the next FDR. Instead. . . .

MICKEY KAUS: The Democratic Carnage Brought About By Immigration Reform Proposals.

JOURNALISM: Take a Look at How Journalists with WFOR in Miami React to Republican’s Re-Election. Democratic operatives with bylines.

GOP official goes off on NAACP for ignoring Mia Love and Tim Scott. We know, of course that the NAACP is really just a bunch of Democratic Party shills, but it’s nice to point it out.