On Fox News Sunday this morning, White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, claimed that Scott Brown’s Massachusetts Senatorial victory was not a comment on Obama’s administration and policy agenda, rather an endorsement of them.

Echoing the message of the Prez, who said just a couple days earlier,

“The same thing that swept Scott Brown into office swept me into office. People are angry and they’re frustrated, not just because of what’s happened in the last year or two years, but what’s happened in the last eight years.”

Gibbs said,

“I think people are angry in this country — they were angry in Massachusetts — that we haven’t made more progress on the economy.”

Host, Chris Wallace, was quick to point out that it wasn’t the same “anger” that swept Obama into office, because Brown campaigned against the Obama agenda. After all, Brown’s platform was:

  • stop Obamacare,
  • cut taxes,
  • end backroom deals with special interest, and
  • don’t give terrorists Miranda rights.

Still, Gibbs continued to spin,

“Well, that may be what he campaigned on, but that’s not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.”

( sigh )

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