By Ashe Schow, Jan. 16, 2015, Washingtonexaminer.com

President Obama and Democrats are planning to make paid leave thenext campaign wedge issue in order to paint Republicans as out of touch with the working class.

But Jonathan Gruber may once again come to the rescue of Republicans, due to the fact that the Obamacare architect found in past research that increasing mandated benefits would result in lower wages.

Gruber, you may recall, is the man who claimed that the “stupidity” of American voters aided Democrats in passing Obamacare through Congress.

Heritage Foundation labor scholar James Sherk noted in a recent article for the Daily Signal that in 1990 and 1994, Gruber found that mandating increased benefits would actually lead to reduced wages.