On Baker, the White House gets a little snippy

"Jim Baker can go back to his day job."

Published December 7, 2006 2:27PM (EST)

Jim Baker declined to say Wednesday whether he thought George W. Bush could bring himself to reverse course on Iraq, and Sandra Day O'Connor -- who served on Baker's Iraq Study Group -- said that that part of the equation is really "out of our hands" now.

No kidding.

CBS News asked a White House spokesman whether the president would like Baker to help him implement the recommendations in the ISG report. The snippy response: "Jim Baker can go back to his day job."


By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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