White House Done Being ‘Nice’: Blasts GOP’s ‘Astounding Duplicity’ On Lynch Nomination
As of Thursday, Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch has waited 149 days for confirmation, more than twice as long as the previous seven attorneys general combined. That delay has been the subject of increasingly intense frustration from President Obama and his administration, and on Thursday afternoon, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest uncharacteristically added some smack-talk to the fire.
Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke, who told Earnest, at Thursday’s White House briefing, that he’s “run out of ways to describe” the delay, and asked for his reaction to it. Earnest, who obviously came prepared for this question, launched into an impassioned (for Josh Earnest) denunciation of the Republicans’ delay, openly mocking media narratives about the president’s ability to get along with Congress, and condemning Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for first urging the president not to rush Lynch through a lame duck session, then blaming Democrats for not confirming Lynch during the lame duck session:
“That in my mind is an astounding display of duplicity.”
At the very end of the briefing, Fox News Radio’s Jon Decker shopped Earnest’s quote back to him, asking if he thought using terms like “duplicity” was “helpful.” Earnest told him right where helpful could go…READ MORE
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By: Tommy Christopher
Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
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Suzanne McFly April 16th, 2015 at 19:21
Why is faux entertainment asking this question, aren’t they part of the reason Lynch’s confirmation has been delayed?
Um Cara April 17th, 2015 at 10:51
No thanks. Obviously this isn’t why the Republicans are blocking her nomination, but it’s why I support doing so.