During Thursday's White House press briefing, Secretary Josh Earnest offered little praise and plenty of scorn for the decision in South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from the state house grounds. The Daily Banter's Tommy Christopher has the video and transcript:

Republicans in Congress, however, seem to have values and priorities that lie elsewhere. Right now, the interior appropriations in the House is jammed up because a sizable number of House Republicans are eager to protect the status of the Confederate flag on National Park Service grounds.

These are the same House Republicans who voted for a leader who once described himself as ‘David Duke without the baggage,’ these are the same Congressional Republicans who have declined to criticize the race-baiting rhetoric of a leading Republican presidential candidate. That’s to say nothing of the Senate Republican who saluted that candidate. So when you hear me say that Congressional Republicans have an agenda that is out of step with the vast majority of Americans, this record, at least in part, is what I’m referring to.

"Never let a crisis go to waste" may be the guiding principle of the DNC, but their addendum is equally as cynical: never let anything the other side does be seen as a good thing.