WH Describes Republican Tactics as "Extortion" Designed to Overturn the Election

[kpete]

THU SEP 26, 2013 AT 03:00 PM PDT
WH Describes Republican Tactics as "Extortion" Designed to Overturn the Election
by Tom P

Following up on President Obama's strong speech today, Press Secretary Jay Carney used the "e"-word with the press in describing recent Republican tactics:

MR. CARNEY: I think we've been sending very clear signals and obviously hoping that those signals are transmitted by you in this room clearly and accurately. The fact of the matter is the President has been willing in a demonstrated way to offer compromise solutions to our economic challenges and our budget challenges. And he has put his money where his mouth is with concrete, moderate, balanced proposals to do that.

And he has met with Republicans all year long who -- Republican legislators who have said that they are interested in finding common ground. And he is absolutely willing to continue to have those kinds of negotiations. What he will not do is engage in an attempt by Republicans to extort from him what they could not get through the legislative process, what they could not get at the ballot box, what they could not get at the Supreme Court of the United States, and offer as an alternative to getting what they want through extortion, tanking the economy and crushing the middle class. He will not do that.

And as many, many Republicans have said, as many, many business leaders have said -- it is an irresponsible approach to take.

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You were not elected to tank the economy. You were not elected to punish the middle class in order to achieve a political objective that you lost through the legislative process and you lost through the elective process, and you lost through the judicial process.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/26/1241634/-WH-Describes-Republican-Tactics-as-Extortion-Designed-to-Overturn-the-Election

[Stuart G]

1. Yep, that is what it is..extortion..and everyone knows what that is...nt

[aquart]

2. Yes.

[dkf]

3. In comparison to the anxiety created over bombing Syria, this "extortion" is so small.

Now that was a really crazy move. This debt ceiling stuff seems so minor in comparison.

Obama knows how to lower the boom and play chicken better than anything Republicans can come up with.