Where’s Andrew Breitbart When You Need Him?
August 30, 2010 at 3:30 PM Leave a comment
Maybe if Andrew Breitbart made a cut-and-paste video of Alan Simpson, and Fox started ranting about it 24/7, the White House would fire him:
Progressive activists have one more reason to be dissatisfied with the White House. A growing coalition of groups, along with members of Congress and Congressional hopefuls, have called in recent days for Social Security foe Alan Simpson to be fired from the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. Today, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said it’s not gonna happen.
“Senator Simpson sent an email that he’s now apologized for,” Gibbs said at the daily White House press briefing today. “We regret that he sent that email. We don’t condone those comments. But Senator Simpson has and will continue to serve on the commission.”
After Simpson emailed a critic and compared Social Security to a “cow with 310 million tits,” advocacy groups including the National Organization for Women, Social Security Works, MoveOn, and progressive legislators like Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) called on the White House to fire him. That’s not going to happen.
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