QUESTION: Is it fair to say the president would be focused on legislation and not executive action ff he didn’t have divided government right now?
JAY CARNEY: No. I think that would be a mistake. I think that the president would be focused on any both because any president who doesn’t take advantage of the unique powers of the presidency to move the country forward would be depriving himself or herself of the capacity to move it more forward and to grow the economy further and to create more jobs so the president will — I think there’s a desire here to see this as an either/or proposition and it is not that.
But you can be sure that the president fully intends to use his executive authority, to use the unique powers of the office to make progress on economic opportunity, to make progress in the areas that he believes are so important to further economic growth and further job creation, so — and that is in addition to calling on Congress to work with him and work in a bipartisan way to advance these objectives, as well.
Carney: Obama "Intends To Use His Executive Authority" To "Move The Country Forward"
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