Gibbs: Obama's No 'Strategy Yet' Admission a 'Wince-Able Moment'
Daniel Halper · September 2, 2014 Robert Gibbs, the first White House press secretary in the Obama administration, calls President Obama's "we don't have a strategy yet" comment about dealing with ISIS a "wince-able moment."
Gibbs: Employer Mandate 'Will Be One of the First Things to Go'
Michael Warren · April 3, 2014 Former White House press secretary Robert GIbbs said Obamacare's employer mandate will likely be scrapped. Speaking to a benefits industry convention in Colorado Springs, Gibbs, who served in the Obama White House from 2009 to 2011, said the mandate that large employers provide a certain level of…
Gibbs Calls WH Advisor a Paid Liar
Daniel Halper · March 16, 2014 Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Dan Pfeiffer, an advisor to President Obama, wasn't telling the truth:
Gibbs: Obama 'Stopped Trying' to Change Washington Long Ago
Daniel Halper · January 28, 2014 Former press secretary Robert Gibbs said today on TV that President Obama and his White House "long ago" gave up on "trying" to change Washington:
Gibbs: 'This Is the Worst Year of the Presidency'
Daniel Halper · December 22, 2013 Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former press secretary, declared 2013 the worst year (so far!) of the Obama presidency:
Gibbs: 'Pressure Now Will Be on the Administration to Be More Forthcoming'
Daniel Halper · December 2, 2013 Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called on the Obama administration to be more forthcoming about Obamacare:
Gibbs Again Calls for Heads to Roll Over Obamacare Website Rollout
Daniel Halper · November 18, 2013 Former press secretary Robert Gibbs again called for heads to roll in the government after the botched rollout of the Obamacare website. He made the remarks today on the Today Show:
Gibbs: 'Certainly' Wrong of President to Promise People Could Keep Their Health Care Plans
Daniel Halper · November 4, 2013 President Obama's former press secretary, Robert Gibbs, says it was "certainly" wrong for the president to continuously promise that people would be able to keep their health care plans under Obamacare:
Gibbs: 'Unbelievable' to Think HHS Didn't Realize the Obamacare Website Was Messed Up
Daniel Halper · October 23, 2013 Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs says that it's "unbelievable" to think that the Health and Human Services Department didn't realize that the Obamacare website was messed up:
Gibbs: Obamacare Roll Out 'Excruciatingly Embarrassing,' People in Charge Should Be Fired
Daniel Halper · October 14, 2013 Former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs blasted the roll-out of Obamacare today on MSNBC:
Blaming the Messengers
Geoffrey Norman · September 18, 2013 The administration's second-term woes might have been avoided if only the first term spinners had stayed around. Amie Parnes of The Hill writes of speculation that if Gibbs and Axelrod and Plouffe were:
Gibbs: I Was Told 'Not Even To Acknowledge the Drone Program'
Daniel Halper · February 24, 2013 Former press secretary Robert Gibbs said this morning on MSNBC that he was told, when he became a White House official, "not even to acknowledge the drone program":
Obama Campaign Doubles Down on Biden's Claim that Middle Class 'Buried'
Daniel Halper · October 7, 2012 Robert Gibbs of the Obama reelection campaign doubled down on Joe Biden's comment this past week that the "the middle class that’s been buried the last four years."
Gibbs Can't Explain Why Administration Misled on Libya
Daniel Halper · September 23, 2012 This morning on Fox News Sunday, Robert Gibbs had problems explaining why the Obama administration misled the nation on what happened in Libya:
Wallace: '[Obama] Has Time for Whoopi Goldberg, But He Doesn't Have Time for World Leaders?'
Daniel Halper · September 23, 2012 On Fox News Sunday this morning, Chris Wallace asked Robert Gibbs, "So [Obama] has time for Whoopi Goldberg, but he doesn't have time for world leaders?" The question is in reference to Obama's decision to go on The View next week, but not to meet with world leaders, including Israeli prime…
Sounds Sort of Like the Obama White House
Geoffrey Norman · August 29, 2012 At the convention, the quest for something to write about never ends and often yields stories that are as watery as prison soup. Politico, for instance, illuminates the proceedings with this:
Gibbs: Unemployment Rate Bad for Those Without College Degrees
Daniel Halper · August 28, 2012 In response to a statement about the high unemployment rate for those with college degrees, Robert Gibbs, a surrogate for President Obama's reelection campaign, admitted that things are particularly bad for those without college degrees:
The Daily Grind: Will Political Courage Be Punished?
Mark Hemingway · March 29, 2011 Great minds and all that: "Did the left blow its cover on the war on the Kochs?"
Former Time Magazine Writer to Serve as Obama's New Press Secretary
John McCormack · January 27, 2011 The Washington Post reports:
Gibbs Refers to New York Times Like it's Part of the White House Press Shop
Daniel Halper · January 20, 2011 Matt Negrin of Politico picks up on this gem from White House press secretary Robert Gibbs:
Robert Gibbs Leaving White House
Daniel Halper · January 5, 2011 Press secretary Robert Gibbs is leaving the White House. The New York Times reports:
Robert Gibbs Is Very Angry Senate Will Read Legislation Before Voting On It
John McCormack · December 15, 2010 White House press secretary Robert Gibbs is angry that Senator Jim DeMint is going to require a Senate clerk to spend 12 whole hours reading the START arms deal aloud before senators vote on it. Says Obama's spokesman in a statement:
Gibbs Questioned on Goolsbee's Koch Comments
John McCormack · October 7, 2010 At a White House press briefing today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about the Treasury Department's review of Austan Goolsbee's comments on Koch Industries' tax status. Gibbs says Goolsbee's comments were "not in any way based on any review of tax filings," and added: "I don't think he'd…
Lord, Make Us Deficit Neutral — But Not Yet
Daniel Halper · September 21, 2010 According to Reuters, the Obama administration plans to tackle the growing deficit ... but not yet. That will come after the 2010 midterm election in November, according to White House spokesman Robert Gibbs:
Robert Gibbs to Professional Left: Talk to the Hand
Mary Katharine Ham · August 10, 2010 Washington was hot today, and Democrats were tearing at each other's hair like a clatch of tween frenemies fighting for the front row at a Justin Bieber mall appearance.