Robert Gibbs keeps jabbing the left

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Hamsher: Gibbs remark went over like a 'lead balloon'

Jane Hamsher, Publisher of Firedoglake.com, talks about Gibbs on "Top Line."

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Gibbs, after apologizing for his voice, started out with a reminder that the administration is "on target to complete our drawdown by the end of August" in Iraq. "Already we have removed over 80,000 troops from Iraq since President Obama took office."

But his interrogators had other topics to discuss. "What do you think the consequences should be of the comments that you made about the quote-unquote professional left?"

"The consequences?" Gibbs replied. "Do you have anything in mind?"

"No supper" was one suggestion.

"One House member has suggested resignation" was another.

Gibbs reached for a JetBlue joke. "I don't plan on leaving," he said, "and there's no truth to the rumor that I've added an inflatable exit to my office."

Did he regret any of what he said to the Hill?

Gibbs allowed that he often thinks he "could have said things slightly differently" but said that after watching too much cable news, he got "frustrated by some of what's said, and I think that's what that answer was born out of."

But Gibbs, notably, was not rescinding his remarks.

"What do you say to progressives who, on reading your comments yesterday, say, 'Well, if that's their attitude, I'm staying home in November'?"

"I don't think they will," Gibbs said.

"Have you reached out to anyone in the Democratic Party to explain your comments?"