Appearing this afternoon on CNN’s “The Lead,” White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer informed Jake Tapper that President Obama bears no responsibility for the debt ceiling crisis. Everything’s totally the GOP’s fault:
Unreal: On #CNN @pfeiffer44 tells @jaketapper that Pres Obama bears no responsibility for any of DC's problems. 100% GOP to blame. #BUBBLE
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
Video: @pfeiffer44 tells @JakeTapper Barack Obama bears no responsibility for DC's problems, it's 100% GOP http://t.co/E2h7pMFRwa
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
And when Republicans aren’t occupied with undermining Obama’s good intentions, they’re busy plotting death and destruction:
White House is not "negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest," says @pfeiffer44. WATCH: http://t.co/g13ngomc41
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) September 26, 2013
.@pfeiffer44 likens GOP to suicide bombers, arsonists and kidnappers in CNN interview. "bomb strapped to their chest" http://t.co/B20IBnBkPY
— Jonathan Allen (@jonallendc) September 26, 2013
From Politico:
“What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest,” Pfeiffer told CNN’s Jake Tapper in laying out the president’s refusal to compromise with the GOP to win an increase in the nation’s debt limit. “We’re not going to do that.”
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He referred to a list of Republican add-ons to a debt-limit bill as “ransom demands,” and said “it’s not a negotiation if I show up at your house and say give me everything inside or I’m going to burn it down.”
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Should senior Obama officials really be comparing those who disagree politically to suicide bombers?
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
I'm going to guess @pfeiffer44 would want that interview back. POTUS has no responsibility for anything bad, GOP = suicide bombers. Not good
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
Jon Favreau is a former speechwriter for the president and has no problem with the “100 percent accurate” suicide bomber analogy.
@BDayspring @pfeiffer44 You're blatantly lying on the first point and the second is 100% accurate.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 26, 2013
.@jonfavs @pfeiffer44 Video – http://t.co/E2h7pMFRwa On the 2nd, it's just sad that senior WH officials would make that comparison.
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
@BDayspring @jonfavs so are you saying the GOP is not threatening to default? If so that's important news
— J. Goldman -Archived (@Goldman44) September 26, 2013
.@pfeiffer44 @jonfavs Last I checked, the White House says "NO NEGOTIATIONS." GOP trying to negotiate to avoid default. Your boss refuses.
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
@BDayspring @pfeiffer44 But Brad, the GOP doesn't have to negotiate to avoid default. It just has to pay the bills Congress already incurred
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 26, 2013
.@jonfavs @pfeiffer44 The GOP has an approach to do that. Assume WH has a different approach. That requires a negotiation, which WH refuses
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
The GOP does have a very simple approach: just strip Obamacare funding from the continuing resolution and the White House can have everything else.
.@BDayspring @pfeiffer44 GOP's approach is a list of unrelated, ideological demands. WH is asking for nothing.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 26, 2013
@BDayspring @jonfavs you are threatening to default if you don't get your way. Very different. take default off the table an
— J. Goldman -Archived (@Goldman44) September 26, 2013
.@jonfavs @pfeiffer44 again, WH doesn't have to like GOP starting point. But to pass something thru Congress, it must negotiate.
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
.@pfeiffer44 @jonfavs GOP legislation will avoid default. WH refuses to negotiate middle ground. YOU are threatening unless u get your way
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
.@BDayspring @pfeiffer44 WH negotiation is, please don't destroy the global economy because you're pissed you lost the election so badly.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) September 26, 2013
.@jonfavs @pfeiffer44 GOP position is, increase the debt limit w/ reforms. We await your counter position. Or are you threatening default?
— Brad Dayspring (@BDayspring) September 26, 2013
According to Pfeiffer, the GOP is threatening to “blow up” the economy over Obamacare. Remember the good old days when the “violent rhetoric” of Sarah Palin PAC’s crosshairs map had people fainting?
What the House GOP wants is extortion not negotiation –> ideological concessions that cant pass in exchange for not blowing up economy
— J. Goldman -Archived (@Goldman44) September 26, 2013
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