{"id":390106,"date":"2010-03-04T16:15:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.suntimes.com,2010:\/sweet\/\/25.32591"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:20:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:20:39","slug":"robert-gibbs-on-rahm-emanuel-no-one-better-suited-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390106","title":{"rendered":"Robert Gibbs on Rahm Emanuel: no one “better suited” for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON–White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel at the Thursday briefing and gave him a big vote of confidence: “The President greatly values the skills that Rahm brings to the job of White House Chief of Staff. I don’t think there’s anybody better suited in this job right now as we’re trying to get health care reform through Congress,” Gibbs said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Q With all the stories leaking from the White House, is the President or Rahm Emanuel on the skids?<\/p>\n

MR. GIBBS: No, the President — (laughter) — the President has —<\/p>\n

Q What does the President think about all this?<\/p>\n

MR. GIBBS: Well, look, the President has — the President believed this in the campaign, the President believes this in the White House, that we all work together as a team, that we rise and fall together as one team. The President greatly values the skills that Rahm brings to the job of White House Chief of Staff. I don’t think there’s anybody better suited in this job right now as we’re trying to get health care reform through Congress. And I don’t think anybody that works in this building would say that there’s anybody that works harder at getting — at implementing the President’s decisions than does the Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n

Q So what’s the problem?<\/p>\n

MR. GIBBS: I think the problem is that right now we’re in a very tough environment. Governing is hard because unemployment is way up. We have two wars. We have a lot of big things on our plate that we’re trying to change on behalf of the American people.<\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON–White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel at the Thursday briefing and gave him a big vote of confidence: “The President greatly values the skills that Rahm brings to the job of White House Chief of Staff. I don’t think there’s anybody better suited in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4220,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}