“On the GSA issue, he was I think it’s fair to say apoplectic. Because we made a big effort to cut waste, inefficiency, fraud against government, saved tens of billions of dollars doing it on just this very kind of thing. And so this was very enraging to him, and, of course, he acted quickly, the administration acted quickly and changed the management there.”

– David Axelrod, Obama’s political guru, on NBC’s “Meet the Press.