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

No Funny Business: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs hadn’t taken his first stab at a joke at the podium today when AP’s Jennifer Loven warned him, on the issue of Obama’s $100 million in cuts: “It’s not funny.” Loven, followed by others in the corps, challenged whether this should be considered significant savings in our new economic era. “I’m not making a joke,” Gibbs defended. “Let’s walk through this,” he said, noting that “a lot of these administrative things will add up” and change not just the short-term bottom line but also the D.C.