Dana Rohrabacher: “I think we should all really tone down our rhetoric, if we could. I have to say, I use a lot of descriptions of my…”

“I think we should all really tone down our rhetoric, if we could. I have to say, I use a lot of descriptions of my friends, but let me say to my friend from New York, telling us that we are a bunch of extremists and you now are centrists, does not further the debate. You must have used the word ``extremist'' five or six times. We will let the American people determine who is in the extreme and who is in the center and who most closely reflects their point of view. I do not accept the notion that we Republicans closed down the Government. I heard that this morning as well. I believe it was the President of the United States and his refusal to act that resulted in the shutdown of the Federal Government. In fact, if we indeed were putting pressure on the President to do certain things, you might say that we came to the point where we had to put him in a position of shutting down the Government himself before he would come forward with even a semblance of a balanced budget plan.”