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Gibbs Gives The WH Press An 'Illuminating Answer' About The Future Of The Republican Party

Greg Hengler
Greg Hengler  |  May 11, 2009 1:56 PM
The reporter's question to Robert Gibbs was direct and simple: Did the waterboarding tactics that Cheney discussed on "Face the Nation," save thousands, or hundreds of thousands of lives?

After 45 seconds of tap-dancing, Gibbs answered with a stern: "I'll check on where that is." Gibbs proceeded to respond to a question he was not supplied: hypothesizing the future of the Republican party based on Cheney's "FTN" comments; it was a grim hypothesis to say the least.