Memo to Dana Perino

The White House press secretary's reaction to the House's contempt citation:

"Today, the United States House of Representatives did something that had never been done in the entire 150-year history of the contempt of Congress statute: it voted to hold in contempt two top White House officials who had been directed by the President not to comply with House Judiciary Committee subpoenas on the basis of the President's assertion of Executive Privilege. The officials in question are the Chief of Staff to the President and the former Counsel to the President, two of the very closest advisers upon whom a President must rely. This action is unprecedented, and it is outrageous."

You know what's outrageous? That for the first time in 150 years a White House has behaved with such contempt - not just for Congress, but for the Constitution, the laws, and the people of this country.