“I think we continue to take the long view on what’s going on in Washington and throughout the country,” Gibbs said.
Translation: “We are excited about the long-term effects of all the legislation and change that we are enacting now, that you will never be able to get rid of later.”
This is clearly HIS idea, but my TAKE is that nothing done in politics is written in stone. In fact, a stalwart Republican majority in Congress and GOP a president could make short work of everything the Obama Administration & Congress has or will accomplish in a few short months.