Nancy Pelosi Walks into the #Grubergate Buzzsaw

The Democrats are increasingly struggling to distance themselves from Jonathan Gruber.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) answers questions during her weekly press conference on November 13, 2014 in Washington, DC.
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By David Weigel

November 13, 2014 at 5:56 PM UTC

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The first question at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's post-election news conference went to Fox News's Chad Pergram, who asked what the un-archived comments of "Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber" meant for the coming Obamacare wars.

"Mr. Gruber's comments were a year old, and he has backtracked from most of them," she said. "You didn't have it in your narrative. That's really important. He is not even advocating the position that he was at some conference and some said. So I don't know who he is. He didn't help write our bill. With all due respect to your question, you have a person who wasn't writing our bill, commenting on what was happening when we were writing our bill, who has withdrawn some of the statements."