I wanted to second Jennifer’s comments about Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs. Few things underscore the enormous gap between Obama’s promise of a “new” brand of politics — mature and serious — and the reality of Obama’s brand of politics, than Gibbs’s daily press briefings. I wish Gibbs would resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship, pettiness, and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long. What’s disturbing is the smallness of our politics, and the ease with which he’s distracted by the petty and trivial, and his preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up his sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle the big problems of America. (Gosh, it turns out those last two lines came from Obama during the campaign.)

Gibbs is sneering and often comes across as unprepared and over-matched. He has the gift of making a difficult job look impossible. And at the rate he is going, Gibbs will secure a place next to Scott McClellan and Ron Zeigler as three of the worst press secretaries in the history of the modern presidencies. I suppose this qualifies as bi-partisanship of some sort.