Toby Harnden at the Telegraph says John King says that Gibbs got the boot because Daley didn’t want him around. I think I was one of the first to report on the pending White House shake-up back on December 9 on MSNBC, and again on FDL on December 20. But you didn’t have to be exceptionally wired in to see that the President had lost confidence in Gibbs.

Even if you believe that some patch or change to the system would have to come if the mandate gets struck down, you’d have to agree that Cutter’s rigid stance here doesn’t even allow for that possibility.