Ellison calls for resignation of White House press secretary Gibbs
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 2:32 pm
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Rep. Keith Ellison
Rep. Keith Ellison called for the resignation of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs after he said the “professional left” would only be satisfied with the Obama administration after “we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.”
In an interview with The Hill, Gibbs vented further: “I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested.” On people who said that President Obama was too centrist, he said, “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”
Rep. Ellison told The Huffington Post, “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 presiden. I understand him having some loyalty to the president who employs him, but I think he’s walking over the line.”
Ellison said that Gibbs’ resignation was warranted. “That’d be fair, because this isn’t the first time. And, again, people of all political shades worked very hard to help the president become the president. Why would he want to go out and deliberately insult the president’s base? And why would he confuse legitimate critique with some sort of lack of loyalty. Isn’t this what the far right does? Punishes people who are not ideologically aligned with President Bush?”
On the claim that the “professional left” would only be satisfied after the Pentagon was eliminated, Rep. Ellison said, “I know of none. So I think that was an inflammatory remark that is emblematic of his careless use of language and is an example of why he may not be the best person for the job.”
White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said the “professional left” that Gibbs referred to were cable commentators. Gibbs said in a statement to The Huffington Post that his comments were “inartful” and “change hasn’t come fast enough for many Americans.”
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Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 3:45 pm
Millions and millions of people other than the professional left would love to have Canadian healthcare Gibbs.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 3:50 pm
Wow, Gibbs really has no idea how big his own base is. Or maybe he doesn’t get that we’re loyal to causes and values before specific politicians.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 5:35 pm
‘Why would he want to go out and deliberately insult the president’s base?”
Thanks, Congressman, for confirming that your “base” is full of nutjobs.
You and your media lackey’s managed to bamboozle (to use Øbowmao’s lingo) enough of the middle of this nation into supporting your islamo-marxist trained puppet.
But now that AMERICA sees what a disaster it is to let incompetent, leftwing, tax-cheating, jihad appeasing, gay marriage loving, mao and muslim kow-towing idiots destroy this country, even Gibbs can’t help but comment on how your KOOK “base” is going to cost you votes.
So keep it up. America needs to see that the same jerks who think money grows on trees so they can hand it over to their union and welfare voters are the same jerks supporting a jihad memorial on the graves of the 9/11 victims.
That you are same fools sucking up to Chavez and Castro as you hand over a BILLION DOLLARS combined to POCKEESTAHN and Hezbullah in Lebanon, the same incompetents who are dithering so long on Iran that the NORTH KOREANS will now get their uranium processed by the mullahs.
PS – how’s that koran you “swore” on? You know the one related to the murder and enslavement of U.S. sailors in the Mediterranean? Or was that”Bush’s fault!” also?
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 6:00 pm
Bud- If you ever lived in Canada you might not
wish for Canadian health care in the U.S.
Comment posted August 10, 2010 @ 9:39 pm
Forget the stupidity of drug testing.When will Urkel start testing his people for any slight indication of intelligence?My guess is Gibbs would flatline on a brain wave scan on his best day.
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 6:57 am
Hoosiegirl-I lived in Canada,Toronto to be precise.I even attended fifth grade there.Great country!!
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 9:00 am
I’m no professional lefty, but I am a constituent of Ellison’s and I support him totally on this one. Call me a nutjob if you like. At least I’m not a racist fearmonger!
Comment posted August 11, 2010 @ 9:28 am
National healthcare and a defunded Pentagon. This guy should run for president! We might be able to avoid bankruptcy.
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