Morning Joe

Posted on 11/23/2009 at 7:14 am by Bob Cesca

Joe Scarborough thinks the $3 trillion Iraq war that was accompanied by tax cuts didn’t balloon the deficit more than the current healthcare bill. You know, the healthcare bill that’s entirely paid for — and will actually reduce the deficit.

Guest Joe Conason made the mistake of pointing this out, stirring Scarborough into one of his little freakouts. Of course he denied supporting the combination of wars and tax cuts, which, if you watched any cable news during that time, is total horseshit.

And logically this would mean that Republican Joe Scarborough was either against the Iraq war or in favor of a $3 trillion tax increase to pay for it. I seriously doubt either is true.

Adding… It’s around 8:10 a.m. EST and Lawrence O’Donnell, along with Andrew Ross Sorkin, just trapped Scarborough into supporting a second stimulus/spending bill in order to create jobs. Ten months ago, Scarborough was accusing the president of being a socialist due to the first stimulus bill.

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  • Dan in DE

    this is quintessential Doucheborough. He spends so much energy trying to be mavericky- not like all those other rank and file republicans- but in the end he’s peddling the exact same horseshit!

  • http://broadwaycarl.blogspot.com Broadway Carl

    And I’m getting a little tired of the disrespect shown to O’Donnell when constantly calling him crazy. O’Donnell makes a point and “You’re crazy” is the logical response according to Joe. He even sets it up on his Twitter page.

    Also on Morning Joe, the craziest man this side of North Korea, Lawrence O’ Donnell. (Love him and his crazy ways!)

    about 14 hours ago from web

    So he sets up O’Donnell as a crackpot not to be taken seriously as the starting point for any discussion. What a dick. And the funny thing is that O’Donnell makes him look like the fool that he is within minutes.

  • kansasdem

    Just another example of Republican’t revisionist history. If they say something you’re just supposed to believe it!

  • roxsteady

    The one segment I caught was when Harold Ford of all people smacked Scarborough down for trying to compare the Palin Celibrity to that of Obama’s. First they read from 2 NY Times op eds. Frank Rich’s and Ross Douthat who is the conservative columnist who took over for Bill Kristol.Both blasted Pain for choosing celibrity over substance. When Scarborough compared her to Obama, saying he’d done the same thing, Ford said there was no comparison. He said that whether you agree with Obama’s policies or not, he sighted his decision to engage the world on foreign policy as just one example. It was priceless.At one point Ford stumped Scarborough when he asked him to compare the 2 intellectually. There was about 5 seconds of dead air. It was great. He’s so full of shit! I only wish Ford had also reminded Joe that Obama knows sanctions on Iraq won’t do a damn thing to stop Iran from getting Nuclear weapons. Something Palin suggested on Hannity’s show last week. Scarborough is a stupid country bumpkin!

  • staci

    Okay, here I am, wallowing in my first day of unemployed depression, and there is Scarborough comparing Obama to Palin as parallels. Good flippin’ grief — the idiocy that man displays daily makes it positively astounding that he can maintain a show. I did get a bit of a boost from Harold Ford showing the tiniest bit of disagreement with The Tyrant and trying to force him to qualify his stupid comments plus Joe Conason pointing out the stupidity of starting a war and tax cuts at the same time and how BOTH contributed to this deficit we’re living with now.

  • Rogect8

    Bob,I have a true story about Joe to cheer you up. You always seem to need cheering up after you…for whatever strange reason…start your day off with Morning Joe (any other Joe-haters will appreciate this as well).Recently I was forced to return to my girlfriend’s hometown of Pensacola FL for a wedding, which also happens to be Joe’s hometown. I know I’ve mentioned it before – but it’s worth repeating – everyone hates him there…which is quite a feat, because the Panhandle of FL is basically just lower-Alabama….teabag country.So anyways, several of my girlfriend’s friends and I end up at a Restaurant/Bar called Maguire’s….if you’ve every been there before, then you’ve no doubt noticed their tradition of letting their patrons write on dollar bills w/ sharpees, and then staple the bills to the walls, hang them from the ceiling, etc. They’re fucking everywhere.And of course if a famous person or local celebrity comes in, they get their picture taken and sign a dollar bill, and Maguire’s will frame the pic and the dollar and hang it on the wall.So throughout the course of the evening I become chums with one of the bartenders, and my curiosity/nerdness get the best of me -ME: “So tell me man, where’s the ‘Joe Scarborough’ picture? I know you guys have gotta have one.”HIM: “Oh yeah, it used to be right over there (*points to a highly visible area on a wall between the bar and where people would stand while they wait for their tables on a crowded night*), but we had to move it. People kept using the sharpees to vandalize his frame, and the manager got sick of trying to censor the frames and buying new ones.”ME: (highly amused): “So where is it now?”HIM: “Couldn’t tell ya”So that ends that conversation, and with the help of alcohol, I go through the rest of my night forgetting the ugly truths that plague this world of ours – such as the fact that people like Joe Scarborough are allowed to exist in it.But wouldn’t you know it, on the way out of the bar, I catch a tiny glimmer of smug-self-satisfaction out of the corner of my eye, and I know before I even look. There is a set of supporting beams near the exit, and Joe Scarborough’s picture has been hung on one of them (most are hung on….you know…walls). In addition, it has been hung about about 1-2 feet off of the ground….I assume so that nobody can stoop low enough to write anything on it. But despite hanging the picture in such a low-visibility / difficult to reach spot, the restaurant is still not succeeding with its goals. Because as I bent lower to get a closer look, I noticed that somebody had written “douchebag” on a dollar bill and stapled it over the lower half of the frame of Joe’s picture.Either nobody had noticed, or nobody cared enough to object. To me, both are equally satisfying.