In an interview with Sam Youngman of The Hill published Tuesday morning, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs unleashed a series of forceful attacks on some unnamed progressive critics of President Barack Obama."I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested," Gibbs said. "I mean, it’s crazy."
Mr. Gibbs needs a reality check himself.
One topic of liberal dissent was the administration's handling of health care reform, which the Democratic base was underwhelmed by. Gibbs mocked and dismissed them.“They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president," he said.
I hope all progressives out there are getting this.
"Maybe one day Robert Gibbs can gear himself up to express some anger at the Right, too,"tweeted Salon's Glenn Greenwald, one of the president's most consistent critics from the left.[...]
It might hearken back to when White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel privately and pointedly described some liberals as "fucking retarded."
"I understand why the [White House] is frustrated by liberal dissatisfaction, but not why they complain about it in interviews," said Ezra Klein of the Washington Post in response.
Could it be because they're "fucking retarded"?
A U.S. military judge on Monday ordered that a plea agreement capping the sentence of an Osama bin Laden aide be sealed, shrouding in secrecy the first Guantanamo conviction under President Barack Obama.
Nothing like George Bush.
One of the fun aspects of Empire is how many ironies it creates.
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