re: #138 LudwigVanQuixote

That said, Vilsak strikes me as the most cowardly and CYA sort of career bureaucrat. It is almost as ridiculous for me to believe that he didn’t call someone low on the food chain at the white house in a panic as itis for me to believe Obama was in it from the get go.

The most likely scenario, is Vilsak calls WH toadie. Toadie over-reacts or even just agrees with Vilsak.

Things blow up from there.

Some time later Obama gets 30 sec briefing.

Yeah. What I found impressive in this episode was the power that Fox News/Breitbart hold over at least a part of the Executive. Someone entered panic mode over this.

Can you imagine this kind of reaction to the occasionally much more reasonable criticisms from the left of Obama?