BLOOD SPORT

Thursday, September 30th, 2010 | Uncategorized

Jake Tapper and his colleagues amuse themselves with a little Robert Gibbs-baiting:

MR. GIBBS: This wasn’t — Chuck, when you guys are on your show debating tax cuts, you didn’t preclude — you didn’t not have that debate because there wasn’t a bill in Congress. Let’s not, like, get wrung around the pole on bill introduction semantics.

Q But the point is there certainly have been — there has been legislation in the past that the President firmly believed in and he pushed the House to vote on it even though he didn’t know whether he would be able to get the votes in the Senate. You go one step at a time. If you believe in it that strongly, you tell the House, let’s push this through. Let’s vote on this –

MR. GIBBS: Chip, Chip, there wasn’t –

Q — let’s get on the record. Why not get on the record?

MR. GIBBS: There was — we can’t — Chip, look at the statements from the Senate Republicans. This wasn’t going anywhere. They had decided to stop middle-class tax cuts.

Q Neither was cap and trade, but you pushed for the House to get on the record on it.

Q So all they need to do is issue a press release and you guys will back off any fight?

MR. GIBBS: I don’t understand your question.

Q All they have to do is say the Republican caucus is not going to support this and Democrats will just say, oh, okay, well, then we’re not even going to try?

MR. GIBBS: No, again, Jake, you’re making the existence of one piece of legislation the beginning or the end of this entire fight. I think that’s kind of a silly concept.

Video at the link above.

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