Robert Gibbs Insults Leftists, Hilarity Ensues
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs really is the gift that keeps on giving. Yesterday in an interview with The Hill, Gibbs lobbed some angry comments at Obama’s base “professional leftists” and launched an angry liberal shitstorm in the blogosphere…
The White House is simmering with anger at criticism from liberals who say President Obama is more concerned with deal-making than ideological purity.
During an interview with The Hill in his West Wing office, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted liberal naysayers, whom he said would never regard anything the president did as good enough.
“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.”
REALLY? You mean all those laughably unrealistic promises Obama made on the campaign trail weren’t based in reality?
The remarks by Gibbs made lefty bloggers at Americablog (not to be confused with American Glob) so angry that they revealed a little too much about the payback they expected for all the “dirty work” they did for Obama during the campaign. Via Gateway Pundit…
Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesn’t count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I suspect a lot of our readers wouldn’t mind their contributions back too, since apparently they’re not appreciated.
Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.
Panic on the left, anyone?
More popcorn, please…
