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

Peter Peter Budget Leader: Briefing Room Guest du Jour was OMB Director (and self-proclaimed “nerd”) Peter Orszag, who followed on POTUS’s PAYGO speech today by hailing the measure as a “commonsense principle that you shouldn’t dig the hole deeper” on the deficit, which is, less than coincidentally, exactly what a new Gallup poll says is the Obama team’s weakness. Orszag prematurely stepped away from the podium after a few words, then joked, “That was easy!” After a good amount of drilling from the press corps, a somewhat taken-aback OMB head turned to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: “No wonder you have so much fun every day!” “This is kind of fun,” he would say later.