Senator Kit Bond (r): "Respect my @&%$in' authoritayyy!"

by: Michael Bersin

Wed Feb 10, 2010 at 15:06:16 PM CST

White House: Kit Bond's Call For Brennan's Resignation Is "Pathetic"

As you may have heard, Senator Kit Bond is calling for Obama counter-terror chief John Brennan to step down, largely because Brennan has taken the lead in pushing back against GOP efforts to paint Obama as weak on terror.

The White House is now dismissing Bond's efforts as "pathetic," and pointing to Brennan's lifetime of professional intelligence experience as proof that Bond is putting politics over our national security. Asked for comment on Bond's broadside, White House spokesman Nick Shapiro emails over a brief and dismissive comment:

"Through his pathetic attack on a counter-terrorism professional like John Brennan who has spent his lifetime protecting this country under multiple Administrations, Senator Bond sinks to new depths in his efforts to put politics over our national security."

The conventions of political journalism for some reason discourage doing this, but it's worth pointing out that the White House is right....

I wonder if there's a podium around that he can pound on while he's at it.