Question from Reporter #1: "You mentioned the word bipartisan. How does it promote an atmosphere of bipartisanship for the President to encourage citizens to call recalcitrant lawmakers and to use his campaign apparatus to tweet out the Twitter handles of Republicans to encourage them to encourage people to sort of jump all over folks to get them to vote? I mean, does that foster a sense of cooperation?"
Jay Carney, White House press secretary: "What the President has called for is for those Americans who believe that we need compromise in Washington to communicate that to their members of Congress. That can be Democrats or Republicans. That is hardly a partisan message. It is explicitly a bipartisan message."
Reporter #2: "They're only tweeting Republicans."
Carney: "Well, I think the problem we've seen here is a lack of willingness to compromise by Republicans. But, the message here is -- and the message of the negotiations the President had with the Speaker, the message that we have had throughout is that we are willing to compromise. We are willing to meet you halfway and beyond in order to resolve these issues."
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