You will regret doing this

[Tchocky]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...use/?hpt=hp_t1

[Order 66]

is this the part people are bristling over? if so it seems pretty tepid

the part of the email from Sperling to Woodward that used the word "regret" said: "But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying saying [sic] that [Obama] asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim."

[Tchocky]

I thought it was this:

The veteran journalist is Bob Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal and wrote a book about the debt ceiling negotiations in the summer of 2011. The Obama administration source is Gene Sperling, a senior economic aide to President Barack Obama and a veteran of the Clinton administration.

They traded emails, Woodward said, as he prepared to report that President Barack Obama was "moving the goal posts" around the forced spending cuts, known as the sequester.

That irked the White House, he said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," and led to the email exchange between Woodward and Sperling.

"They're not happy at all," with what he was reporting, Woodward said.

"It was said very clearly, 'You will regret doing this,' " he continued, intimating a threat.

[Eulogy]

uh yeah and the post above it puts that in context

this is dumb. everyone stop talking about it.

[Trotskilicious]

yes sir mr. eulogy sir

[sppunk]

The White House really is a closed-up, intimidating PR front under Obama's administration.

They are often completely closed to the press and ruthless in their treatment of pool and beat reporters, not granting access to many things. It's disheartening to me. :/

That said, Woodward is a blowhard.

[Future Boy]

as tepid as it seems i dont think woodward ever said he took it as a physical threat

[Future Boy]

but yeah screw woodward

"wood"

[Trotskilicious]

Originally Posted by sppunk

The White House really is a closed-up, intimidating PR front under Obama's administration.

They are often completely closed to the press and ruthless in their treatment of pool and beat reporters, not granting access to many things. It's disheartening to me. :/

That said, Woodward is a blowhard.

they are just taking cues from the previous administration

[Eulogy]

does no one bother to find out what actually was said

http://gawker.com/5987586/goodbye-bob

Bob:

I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. My bad. I do understand your problems with a couple of our statements in the fall - but feel on the other hand that you focus on a few specific trees that gives a very wrong perception of the forest. But perhaps we will just not see eye to eye here.

But I do truly believe you should rethink your comment about saying saying that Potus asking for revenues is moving the goal post. I know you may not believe this, but as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim. The idea that the sequester was to force both sides to go back to try at a big or grand barain with a mix of entitlements and revenues (even if there were serious disagreements on composition) was part of the DNA of the thing from the start. It was an accepted part of the understanding - from the start. Really. It was assumed by the Rs on the Supercommittee that came right after: it was assumed in the November-December 2012 negotiations. There may have been big disagreements over rates and ratios - but that it was supposed to be replaced by entitlements and revenues of some form is not controversial. (Indeed, the discretionary savings amount from the Boehner-Obama negotiations were locked in in BCA: the sequester was just designed to force all back to table on entitlements and revenues.)

I agree there are more than one side to our first disagreement, but again think this latter issue is diffferent. Not out to argue and argue on this latter point. Just my sincere advice. Your call obviously.

My apologies again for raising my voice on the call with you. Feel bad about that and truly apologize.

Gene

OH MY GOD WHAT A SCARY THREAT

[Order 66]

so much for a 'new kind of politics'

[duovamp]

Black people are known to be more violent so this shouldn't surprise anyone.

[Trotskilicious]

hehe the bohner obama negotiations

[killtrocity]

I wanna put my boner in your obummer

[Trotskilicious]

you can put it in my ass but i will not suck it

i'm sorry mr. president we promised some guy on the internet that we would fuck your mouth and ass, or nothing

[Trotskilicious]

why can't you compromise and let us put our boehner wherever we please?

[D.]

I wanna rub my Boehner on your Clinton.

[D.]

Am I doing this right?

[killtrocity]

no clits allowed, only boners and mens asses sry

[TuralyonW3]

nobody care