FishPoolDC: Our Insider's Notes from Today's Briefing

Grandma’s Safe: Health care and yesterday’s N.H. town hall — surprise, surprise — stole the spotlight at today’s briefing. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was asked whether POTUS’s having to explain that the government wouldn’t kill Grandma was a sign that it was important to move a bill by the original August deadline. RG, at first unsure how to answer, was prompted by CBS’s Bill Plante to just say yes. “That’s certainly one way to do it,” Gibbs laughed.