Great Gibbering Gibbs!
Obama Press Secretary and first-rate stress case Robert Gibbs can't take it anymore:
“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.” The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.” Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”
The Daily Caller has more. Richard Adams flags Glenn Greenwald's reax:
one of the most petulant, self-pitying outbursts seen from a top political official in recent memory, half derived from a paranoid Richard Nixon rant and the other half from a Sean Hannity/Sarah Palin caricature of The Far Left.
Matt Yglesias ventures something of a defense:
it’s not the job of the President of the United States to stand up for a pure ideological vision—his job is to cut compromises to implement policies that improve on the status quo. But by the same token, it’s not the job of activists to be “satisfied” with compromises premised on the current boundaries of political feasibility.
Here's what fascinates me most: Obama now has amassed vocal critics on the right and the left who think he's too much like George W. Bush. That can't be good news for the President.
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Jun '10
Re: Great Gibbering Gibbs!
I think that Obama would rather be compared to Ahmadinejad than to W. This definitely is not good news for the President.
And, by the way, has there ever been a worse presidential press secretary that Gibbs (even including Scott McClellan)? He's smarmy, whines a lot, and is real smart a**.
May '10
Re: Great Gibbering Gibbs!
"After hurling a few choice epithets at the press, Mr. Gibbs grabbed a couple of beers, opened up the rear emergency exit and jumped out, yelling something like, 'There goes that Ambassadorship to St. Kitts!'
Mr. Gibbs was last seen running across the South Lawn toward a waiting Winnebago."
Jul '10
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Oh, I hope they don't fire Robert Gibbs. If they get rid of people like him, Rahm, and Valerie...not only will my life become more boring, but they might actually see improvement in the President's numbers.
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Ottoman Umpire: "After hurling a few choice epithets at the press, Mr. Gibbs grabbed a couple of beers, opened up the rear emergency exit and jumped out, yelling something like, 'There goes that Ambassadorship to St. Kitts!'
Mr. Gibbs was last seen running across the South Lawn toward a waiting Winnebago." · Aug 10 at 1:24pm
It's the only way to quit, Ottoman. Would that Charlie Rangel understood. Chalk it up to just another hint he won't take. Ed Morrissey relays Mediaite's report:
May '10
Re: Great Gibbering Gibbs!
Trite, but true:
Gibbs, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.