Trey Gowdy just showed up Jon Stewart in his mockery of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.
Speaking to Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Wednesday, Rep. Gowdy (R-S.C.) called Gruber “an insomniac with Tourrette’s syndrome” for his constant blabbing about Obamacare’s “lack of transparency” and the “stupidity” of the American people.
“When you have an insomniac with Tourrette’s syndrome, you don’t interrupt him,” explained Gowdy of what he thinks Republicans should do about Gruber. “So, we’re going to let him keep talking for as long as he will talk and then when he’s through insulting our fellow citizens, then what I would recommend to [House Speaker John Boehner] and others is have another series of Congressional hearings primarily to focus on the money we spent on him.”
Gowdy said that he would be interested in asking Gruber, “When you apologized, did you apologize because you said it or did you apologize because you meant it?”
“I think he meant that we could not have passed this bill if people had been paying attention,” added the Republican congressman.
Van Susteren then suggested that — if Gruber’s recorded claims about Obamacare’s intended “lack of transparency” are accurate — the most “disturbing” part of the revelation is the way the it impacts our democracy.
“It’s pretty arrogant what he did,” she explained, “but what’s even more disturbing is to undermine the democratic system by being deceitful — knowingly — to get something passed. That’s different.”
Gowdy then mocked Gruber for insinuating that he — and other individuals involved in the construction of the health care law — knew what was best for the American people, even if they couldn’t recognize it themselves.
“When somebody is so much smarter than we are and knows so much better what’s in our best interest and they happen to have a Ph.D. behind their name, it’s okay when they lie to us because they have our best interests in mind and you and I are just not smart enough to know what is best for us,” the South Carolina Republican explained sarcastically.
“If I could get past the irony, I would get to the arrogance,” Gowdy continued. “But, this transparent administration can’t tell the truth about its signature piece of legislation.”
Watch the video below, via the Washington Free Beacon.
