I watch too much cable, I admit. Day after day it gets frustrating. Yesterday I watched as someone called legislation to prevent teacher layoffs a bailout - but I know that's not a view held by many, nor were the views I was frustrated about.

On November 11 2003 Gibbs resigned "in reaction to the firing of Jim Jordan abruptly let go by Kerry Sunday night. We can't go to a discussion and be completely the demander with them not feeling that they need anything from us.

On January 5 2011 Gibbs announced that he would leave the White House to become an outside adviser to the administration. Gibbs who has worked with Obama since 2004 was press secretary of John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and has previously specialized in Senate campaigns having served as communications director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and for four individual Senate campaigns including those of Obama in 2004 and Fritz Hollings in 1998. S.