Return to Washington Examiner Homepage
May 22, 2013 | 02:18 AM
politics
Washington D.C. weather
Politics

White House reporter: ‘Does the president have a Batplane?’

December 20, 2012 | 1:15 pm | Modified: December 20, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Leave a comment

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said that Republican’s “Plan B” for a fiscal cliff solution was a non-starter, suggesting that they “were running down a dark alley with no exit.”

When a reporter asked if Obama would “be there at the end of the alley,” Carney laughed, admitting that he was using a metaphor from the summer blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises.

“What I’m confident of is that they don’t have at the end of that alley a Bat Plane to fly out to their own rescue,” Carney joked.

“Does the President have a Batplane?” asked a reporter.

“I can’t talk about that, that’s classified,” Carney cracked.

 

 

From WeeklyStandard.com

  • He’s No Nixon

    The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...

    Read More...

  • IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC

    Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...

    Read More...

  • Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw

    The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...

    Read More...