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

Crawling Toward Trip Time: With many WH press corps heavies busy packing their bags for the POTUS trip to the Middle East and Europe, the Brady briefing room saw a lot of B-team faces today. General pace was slow, a good indicator being that Press Secretary Robert Gibbs used the “won’t get ahead of…” sidestep for four questions: human rights in the president’s Cairo speech, whether the Obama team will push for the “public option” on healthcare, a potential request for the Australian government to take Gitmo detainees, and his own commencement speech this afternoon.

Hey-O!: On the last of the “won’t get ahead of…”s, Congress Daily’s George Condon jabbed, “I knew there was some reason they wanted you” as Gibbs disclosed his cousin will be graduating from Winston Churchill High.

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