Ack! Ack! (afp photo)
Oh, Robert Gibbs! Now Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, is calling for you to step down. Not good!
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“This is not the first time that Mr. Gibbs has made untoward and inflammatory comments and I certainly hope that people in the White House don’t share his view that the left is unimportant to the president,” Ellison told the Huffington Post. “I understand him having some loyalty to the president who employs him, but I think he’s walking over the line.”
Hm. Did Gibbs really say that, though? Mostly he complained to The Hill that liberals weren’t giving Obama enough credit — not that they were unimportant.
No matter. It’s awkward when a member of Congress from your own party calls on you to resign. But Gibbs is extra-special close to President Obama, and will probably stay in that job as long as he wants it (which doesn’t seem long, the prevailing guess is he will leave it to Bill Burton after the election and formalize his role as adviser to the president).
Remember his flare-up with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after saying the Democrats could lose the House in November? Gibbs just shrugs that stuff off. As he likes to say, “This town!”
