White House Press Briefing by Jay Carney, January 8, 2013

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–January 8, 2013 – 12:56 P.M. EST

MR. CARNEY:  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  Thank you for being here.  Before I start, it is amazing, in today’s era of lightning communications, how this already seems to be a moment that’s passing, but it is worth pausing to remember, perhaps in my mind, the greatest political journalist ever, and that’s Richard Ben Cramer. 

When I got to Washington in 1993, in the spring of that…