Was Obama Too Slow to Respond?

President Obama’s former press secretary Robert Gibbs “criticized his former boss for what he called a late and ‘exceedingly passive’ response to the controversy surrounding the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative groups,” The Hill reports.

Said Gibbs: “The problem is this – the tenor of this briefing would be different if the president had spoken about this on Saturday or Sunday and not on Monday. And if the president had spoken on Monday, less about losing patience on this, which is what I do with my 9-year-old, and used far more vivid language.”

Dana Milbank calls Obama the “disinterested president.”