Obama Flashback: ‘I’ve stolen ideas’ from Jonathan Gruber ‘liberally’

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During a Brookings Institution panel in April 2006, then-Sen. Barack Obama claimed he had "stolen" ideas from a gang of liberal economists and academics, including the now-infamous Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber.

"You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I've stolen ideas from liberally," Obama said. "People ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice."

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