Delicious Schadenfreude
*scrape*scrape*scrape*
The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.
This is a big shock to y’all, eh?
“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said.
That won’t become a meme…
The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” ... saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”
This is nooz to you, eh?
The White House, constantly under fire from expected enemies on the right, has been frustrated by nightly attacks on cable news shows catering to the left, where Obama and top lieutenants like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have been excoriated for abandoning the public option in healthcare reform; for not moving faster to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and for failing, so far, to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
Sos—that cuh-ray-zee Reich-Wing Media, eh?
The lack of appreciation or recognition for what Obama has accomplished has left Gibbs and others in furious disbelief.
...Progressives, Gibbs said, are the liberals outside of Washington “in America,” and they are grateful...
“And from Gibbs’s perspective, and the White House perspective, they ought to be able to catch a break from people who, in their view, should be grateful and appreciative.”
Posted by Claire on 08/10 at 09:53 AM
“... criticism from liberals ...”
What the heck??? Watch out - there’s pigs flyin’ overhead.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/10/10 at 06:26 PM
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