I know how much can you sympathize with them today, as we learn that the national deficit has hit $1 trillion for the first nine months of the fiscal year. Spending the nation into a debt that our great-great grandchildren will be paying off is a tiring venture, my friends.
In a city where work can border on obsession, the Obama staffers stand out. They are not quite the walking dead, but their eyes are frequently ringed with the bags that accompany exhaustion.
“This is a place, because of the stress, the schedule and the sheer hours, that just chews people up and spits them out,” said press secretary Robert Gibbs, whose alarm clock is set to 4:30 a.m., though he ignores the early ring more often these days.
All West Wings face fatigue at some point, but the Obama team has had a particularly frenetic start, the result of inheriting the worse economic crisis since the Great Depression and the team’s own seemingly chaotic drive to push an agenda that includes the creation of a new health insurance system, auto bailouts, Middle East peace, nuclear nonproliferation, two wars and education reform…
Obama is now testing the limits of his staffers’ endurance. So far, there is a palpable sense of pride in the West Wing that treaties are negotiated, complex legislation is crafted and banks are bailed out — all on very little sleep.
Omri Ceren is right, of course, when he says that the point of this story is to paint Obama staffers as such tireless, diligent individuals working around the clock to fix the nation’e economy. Just the latest hackish spinning from the adoring ObaMedia.
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