he didn't, not deliberately. but I grant you, being slow to react to a story like this is a problem. its always the same problem for this administration, the slowness to react - not getting out there on a story as soon as it breaks, hurts them time after time.
once Peter King picked up the phone this wendesday and told the white house to wake up on this, the white house should have announced this deal was going to be killed the next morning.
SERIOUSLY.
THE POLITICAL AND COMMUNICATIONS SHOP OVER THERE SUCKS.
IT AIN'T INCOMPETENCE, IT'S SOMETHING DARKER. The Bush & Clinton dance is nasty and worrisome.