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He consistently asks the most leading and obtuse questions. He just asked Robert Gibbs about the budget cabinet cuts, saying over and over again that 100 million dollars is a very tiny amount of money to cut, and saying "Aren't you just confirming to the critics the theme that the sky is the limit with this spending? That it's just UP AND UP AND UP AND UP!?" Oh, screw you. Again, it's not the question, but the framing of the question from Reid that always bothers me.
And on another note, this is definitely not Gibbs' best day. Ed Henry and Jake Tapper actually asked good questions for once (sort of) about the State Secrets case, and prosecution of Bush officials, and Gibbs really didn't have an answer. He repeated the same "We have to move forward" thing, while looking uncomfortable, and I'm sorry.....if this is the route that they are going to take, they really need to provide him with better talking points than that. That line is getting insulting. And Gibbs didn't know anything about the State Secrets case, or about the Gitmo detainee who had called outside and said that the beatings have gotten worse. They need to get him up to speed, and he needs to have a better explaination than the "we have banned these techniques", because it really avoids the question.
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