Typical: On the one hand, Obama excoriates the GOP for playing politics; on the other, spokes-idiot Gibbs leaves to work on his campaign

President Obama seems resigned to the fact that Republicans will begin the year by fighting his agenda.

I think that there's going to be politics... They are going to play to their base for a certain period of time... but I'm pretty confident that they're going to recognize that our job is to govern and make sure that we are delivering jobs for the American people and that we're creating a competitive economy for the 21st century.

Curious: when it comes to politics, no President has spent more time campaigning and posturing -- as opposed to governing -- than this President.

I find it a touch ironic that today White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced that he is leaving the White House.

Why?

He is going to begin working on Obama's 2012 campaign.

As for Obama's bloviation regarding jobs... where have we heard that before?

Isn't that rich? The same man who said he "would not rest" until Americans had jobs just spent two years straight trying to shred the Constitution and bankrupt the country.

Seems to me the President was far more concerned with golf, basketball, socialized medicine, cap-and-trade, paying off the public sector union bosses, mocking Republicans, and eating Slurpees than worrying about jobs. But that's just me.