It’s not every day that two members of Congress from the president’s own party demand a White House press secretary’s resignation, but that’s exactly what Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Alan Grayson, D-Fla., did last August.

What was the crime of President Obama’s chief spokesman? The previous day, Gibbs criticized “the professional left,” who he said wouldn’t be satisfied until “we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality. … They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”