This is how rumors get started. Joe Scarborough, who is apparently discontent that liberals are hammering him on Twitter (he complains regularly), is using his platform to push the notion that White House officials are incompetent. He pushes the narrative by saying everyone believes that Obama's team is incompetent, but I really haven't heard a lot of people, other than the republicans, saying that David Axelrod or Robert Gibbs are a liability. People complain a lot about Rahm Emanuel, but he seems to be one of the few people who gets stuff done.
We know that the republicans will do just about anything to avoid doing actual work. They'd rather play the games.
Scarborough digs up Les Gelb to talk about firing White House staff:
