Press secretary Robert Gibbs tried to tap dance around a question yesterday, but in a major surprise, the press didn’t let him get away with it.
AP reporter Jennifer Loven and ABC’s Jake Tapper pressed Gibbs to explain why President Obama bragged about saving $100 million in his proposed budget when he had downplayed $8 billion in earmark spending several weeks ago.
It wasn’t pretty. Gibbs eventually adopted the strategy of talking and talking and talking until everyone forgot what the question was.
Source: ABC News via RealClearPolitics.com
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So the budget is $1 million piled up 36000 times, they are excited about cutting $1 million stacked up 100 times? And they will do it in 90 days ooohhhhhh!! We spend $100 million in interest on our debt.............every two hours! We will have spent $108 BILLION in interest by the time these dimwits save $100 million!
Someone should ask Schumer what he thinks of the MASSIVE cut in the budget....
The government is going to get a handle on out of control spending by buying their office supplies in bulk. Whoa, slow down there, Sparky!
This is apparently what Obama listed as the idea that Napaltano's office was going to do for their country. Wow, the sacrafice, the courage!
So, based on a 3.6 trillion $ annual budget, saving 100 million $ is (according to my math) 1/36,000 of the budget.
To put this on personal terms, its like me racking my brain to figure out how I can possibly reduce my annual living expenses by $2.00. Belt tightening time!!!
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"Whose on first" with Abbott and Costello make more sense than Gibbs.