Robert Gibbs: Obama Stopped Trying to Change Washington a Long Time Ago

Gibbs: White House Stopped Trying to Change Washington a Long Time Ago (Mediaite)

Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told the Morning Joe crew that President Barack Obama’s professed desire to change the mechanisms of Washington, D.C. was an abandoned goal, and that the aims of tonight’s State of the Union address were more about compelling policies than “fixing” Washington.

“The ability to change Washington is something that long ago the White House sort of stopped trying to do,” Gibbs said. “Whether or not that is a good thing, we will look back on history.”

“I do think that this is a story of Washington dysfunction,” Gibbs continued. “Everything in this speech is what the public wants to hear. The public just doesn’t simply think that this group of people assembled in this room is remotely capable of solving those problems.”

“I think the test of this speech will be: do the American people that do watch, do they feel like this president has a plan to get some of those things done, or is this just another speech out of Washington?”