I managed to have missed the brouhaha over Gibbs...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Would one of you good people kindly explain what he said? I'm seeing bits and pieces here and there, but I'm still rather lost.

Thanks!

:hi:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. He said people who compared Bush to Obama must be on drugs, proverbally.

And there are a lot of guilty consciences around here.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thanks!

[LostInAnomie]

11. HFPS pretty much nailed it.

A lot of exploding over nothing.

[DCBob]

16. That sounds about right.

what's the fuss?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

17. Like I said, lots of guilty consciences.

Fuckin' teabaggers, man.

[stray cat]

2. you missed some of the brouhaha but in reality you missed nothing

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. A whole lotta fuss over nothing? Hmmm...

[babylonsister]

3. Here, Peggy...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x403190

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Thanks, my dear babylonsister!

How did I manage to miss that?

[ProfessionalLeftist]

4. Gotcha Gibbs spew right here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4498155

[JonLP24]

6. ---------

“I hear these people saying he’s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested,” Gibbs said. “I mean, it’s crazy.”

The press secretary dismissed the “professional left” in terms very similar to those used by their opponents on the ideological right, saying, “They will be satisfied when we have Canadian healthcare and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon. That’s not reality.”

Of those who complain that Obama caved to centrists on issues such as healthcare reform, Gibbs said: “They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.”

The White House, constantly under fire from expected enemies on the right, has been frustrated by nightly attacks on cable news shows catering to the left, where Obama and top lieutenants like Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have been excoriated for abandoning the public option in healthcare reform; for not moving faster to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay; and for failing, so far, to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/113431-white-house-unloads-on-professional-left

[HipChick]

7. My dear CaliforniaPeggy

I still don't know what everyone is wee-wee'd up about..

[babylonsister]

20. Haha! +1. nt

[islandmkl]

9. kind of like missing your favorite soap opera for a week (or a year)...

tune in, and it's like you know exactly what's going on...

[Individualist]

10. ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8914027&mesg_id=8914027

338 recs.

[eleny]

15. That's the one

[me b zola]

12. Gibbs called the administration's critics from the Left the "professional Left"

He said that we are all high, that we want :gasp: Canadian Health Care.

[Curmudgeoness]

14. Keep it that way. Just miss the whole thing. My computer

in on meltdown right now. If you can find a post that is not Gibbs, you are lucky.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. I hear that!

But I do like to have some idea when everyone's talking about it!

When I want posts that aren't about him, I go to the Lounge!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. Thanks, everybody!

I really appreciate all the help, and quickly too!