It’s so scampish of the White House to relentlessly steal focus from John Boehner and the new Congress today. We are kind of loving it.
But anyway — President Obama, having dealt with the administration’s news of the day in the aforementioned quick phoner with the NYT, issued the following bland statement to the rest of us regarding the sort-of departure of press secretary Robert Gibbs and his pastel tie collection from the podium:
Gibbs, who has been with Obama since back in the Senate days, is leaving after State of the Union to work on the 2012 campaign. So he’s leaving the West Wing, but not leaving Obama — and he will probably be back for the second term, we’re guessing, in some other capacity. He is after all, the “Barack Whisperer.”
