I never said it but if I did I didn’t mean it

I never said it but if I did I didn’t mean it

by digby

Funny Twitter conversation with White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer:

Rory Cooper RT@CollegePolitico:From what @pfeiffer44 tells me the President will sign any debt deal that congress sends him http://t.co/sHBUdXm

Dan Pfeiffer: no, I said I believed a short term can’t pass congress not shld it

Rory Cooper: Q: “Do you see a scenario where the house & senate pass a deal but the President doesn’t sign it?” @pfeiffer44 A: “No”

Dan Pfeiffer: right, bc i dont see the congress passing a short term bc Dems oppose it and boehner needs dems #nicetry

Rory Cooper: Fair enough, but you are saying that the WH doesn’t see a bill coming from Congress that you will oppose.

Twitter is often a confusing medium so I forgive anyone for being misunderstood. But it does seem clear that the president is willing to sign any bill that gets presented to him. He’s just assuming that the Democrats will not sign of on anything that he doesn’t approve. And I would assume that’s correct.

However, it might be useful for the president to be able to distance himself from the bill at this point, and Boehner seems to need to pretend that it’s coming from congress not the White House, so this language could be intentional. (Or not — it could just be twitter nonsense.)

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