Why Is Robert Gibbs Such a Prick?

To Chuck Todd: Comparing household and corporate belt-tightening to government belt-tightening is dumb. The federal government has different choices than private entities and levering up to mitigate a downturn is one of them. The "feel your pain" governing philosophy, in symbol and policy, is crap.

To Robert Gibbs: Slinging sly, smarter-than-thou insults at the press is fun for you and the red-meat loving Obamabots, but try to remember you're the spokesman for the President of the United States. You don't have to bathe yourself in earnestness 24/7/365, but being a prick in public breeds the cynicism your boss argued so forcefully he'd end.

To Barack Obama: Your public spokesman is a prick. Maybe not in private, maybe not to your hardcore fans, maybe not all the time. But he cheapens your office and he's doing it with your permission.

Or maybe you like it that way. . . .