The Huffington Post‘s Sam Stein is a well-liked and worthy competitor in the DC press corps, which is partly why his exchange with President Obama today got so many chuckles:
Stein: Are there things with respect to Social Security, like raising the retirement age, means testing — are those too big a chunk for —
Obama: I’m probably not going to get into the details, Sam, right now of negotiations. I might enjoy negotiating with you, but I don’t know how much juice you’ve got in the Republican caucus. (Laughter.) That’s what I figured.
The other reason is the gesture he and the President used.
