Gibbs on GOP: "Hard to tell what planet these people live on"

[ProSense]

Gibbs on GOP: "Hard to tell what planet these people live on"

There's another political dimension to the Joe Barton story worth considering: Until today, the narrative had been entirely focused on the Obama administration's inability to stop the spill.

Barton's apology to BP has handed the White House an easy way to change the subject, and in the White House press briefing, Robert Gibbs broadened the case against Barton to one against the whole GOP and its embrace of deregulation on multiple issues.

"It's hard to tell what planet these people live on," Gibbs said, when asked about the litany of attacks on the White House's treatement of BP coming from multiple Republicans.

"It's hard to understand their viewpoint but it may explain their votes on financial regulation," he continued. "It explains how they view whether or not the banks ought to be able to write their own rules and play the game the way they played it several years ago that caused our economy to crash."

Gibbs ripped BP for doing untold damage to our economy, environment, and "way of life," and added that if you listen to Barton, Michele Bachmann and other Republicans, "you'd think somehow BP was a hankerchief, a crying shoulder."

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Excellent point.

[dgibby]

1. Good for Gibbs!

Nothing like donating the shovels when your opponents are standing neck-deep in holes!:evilgrin:

[Cha]

2. Ha! That's what I was asking earlier..it's

rather obvious it's not Planet Earth.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Gibbs has a right to be pissed. We all do. (nt)

[ProgressOnTheMove]

4. Definitely a great article to send to any friends in the Louisiana coast.