There’s a lot of talk about BlogCon in the first Morning Jolt of the week, including a look at one of Andrew Breitbart’s final projects, but also a quick look at one of the more . . . unverified statements of the weekend morning shows.

Apoplectic Beyond Words, or at Least a Public Comment
Relax, America. President Obama is as mad about the GSA as you are.
Or at least his staff insists that’s the case.
President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” about lavish spending at the GSA, one of his top advisers said Sunday.
“On the GSA issue, he was I think it’s fair to say apoplectic,” said David Axelrod, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press. “Because we made a big effort to cut waste, inefficiency, fraud against government, saved tens of billions of dollars doing it on just this very kind of thing. And so this was very enraging to him, and, of course, he acted quickly, the administration acted quickly and changed the management there.”
I asked the other day if Obama himself had issued any statement on the GSA. I haven’t gone through every one of the president’s remarks in the past three weeks, but a cursory look didn’t reveal any comments from the president himself on this.
Keep in mind, this story broke April 2 when the chief of the General Services Administration resigned, two of her top deputies were fired, and four managers were placed on leave. In that time, President Obama has weighed in on the Trayvon Martin case (okay, technically that was a few days before), the dispute between the U.K. and Argentina in the Falkland Islands, joked about how his foreign summits help him scout vacation spots for Michelle and Kanye West again.
So if Obama’s really apoplectic about this waste of taxpayer money, great. But we hear Obama fume about wasteful government spending all too rarely, and it doesn’t seem to be something that bothers him as much as, say, the tax rate for corporate jet owners or the persistent, yet never proven, rumors of oil market speculators increasing the price of gas, or the 4,000 or so taxpayers who would be affected by the Buffett Rule. This is the guy whose entire case for financial reform was that Wall Street and big financial institutions taking unreasonable risks with their customers’ money, and then in the same press conference said that it was not merely proper but necessary for the federal government in investing the taxpayers’ money in risky ventures like Solyndra. To Obama, some taxpayer money being lost on ventures that never pay off is just part of doing business, so to speak.
Andre Tartar of New York magazine notices, “Whether he’s apoplectic on principle or because $820,000 in taxpayer money spent on mind-readers and sushi is exactly the kind of headache one doesn’t need in an election year is unclear, but those with an ax to grind are certainly underscoring the latter issue. Political free agent Joe Lieberman took to CBS’s Face the Nation to call the situation ‘really outrageous — for me, sickening’ as he pointed out eight party ‘planning’ trips that cost taxpayers (almost) $150,000. And though he did say that this ‘doesn’t represent what I know to be most people who work for the federal government,’ he still placed the blame squarely on President Obama’s shoulders. In his opinion, it’s ‘fair to hold a president accountable’ when the federal government misbehaves.”