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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFinally! Morning Joe Blames Newt And Grover For Our Broken Government
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Scarborough led with the famous quote from Grover Norquist.
"He said 'I don't want to abolish government, I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub," he said.
"Well, that's exactly what's happened with NIH. That's exactly what's happened with the pandemic task force. That's exactly what's happened, again, with that 12% of the federal government, the domestic discretionary spending part, that small part of that pie that republicans have only had the political will to cut. Of course, expanding the defense budget at record rates, passing record tax cuts, being fiscally reckless, and then gutting the small part of the federal budget that actually would be saving lives right now, Mike."
"Well, Grover, who grew up about 15 miles from where I'm sitting here right now this morning, should be pleased with his efforts because they have been quite successful. And I can know that -- you know that they're quite successful when you talk to emergency room nurses or doctors or people in hospitals who don't have enough protection equipment, who don't have the kind of gloves, the kind of masks that they've needed now for months because government has been so inefficient in delivering these things," Barnicle said.
"And I might remind Grover to go around to a hospital and talk to these people at the appropriate distance, of course, and then ask yourself, is this really the United States of America? Are you telling me in the United States of America, in the year 2020, that we cannot provide nurses and doctors with personal protection equipment needed to combat this virus without putting their lives on the line every day, which they do? But this is the United States of America 2020, thanks to the efforts of people like Grover Norquist, Newt Gingrich who began this whole thing, in my estimation, in the mid 1980s, and this is where we are today, Joe."
"I'll tell you, Mika, I am a small government conservative. I've been fighting for small government and balanced budgets my entire life, I'm still a small government conservative," Scarborough said.
"But you've got to keep the part of the budget that actually helps the American people. And, again, it's something I've been warning about for a decade now. It's something that other conservatives have been -- small government conservatives have been warning about for a decade now. You can't jack up defense spending to record levels. You can't jack up tax cuts that end up not helping the economy in the long run.
https://crooksandliars.com/2020/04/finally-morning-joe-blames-newt-and-grover
Right Joe! Except a Small Government Conservative, is just a fringe of fabric away from Grover's position.
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ck4829
(35,091 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,192 posts)Now, nobody listens to his idiocy.
Good!
ck4829
(35,091 posts)He is discredited to them, not because his ideas have no merit, but because he has a Muslim wife and because he has... a beard.
It shows how truly unworthy of an opponent that today's right-wing truly is. They should not be our counterpart.
ProfessorGAC
(65,192 posts)...I'm tickled.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,192 posts)This guy has no real credentials, other than going to Harvard.
He had the ear of a president & was constantly in the press.
Now he has no audience.
Gotta be killing him to be irrelevant. He deserves it.
olegramps
(8,200 posts)He and his policies are a failure and deadly like his intern.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)When hearing John Paul Jones famous cry 'I have not yet begun to fight!"...
"There's always some sonuvabitch slow to get the word."
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)dalton99a
(81,598 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)who are happy to blow a little gas at you when it looks like you are waking up.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)pat_k
(9,313 posts)That is the ONLY part of the government ANY of us want. We ALL want a government that serves us as a people. No More. No Less.
There is no right "size" -- we need it to be the size we decide we need it to be.
padah513
(2,506 posts)Look at his voting record when he was in Congress. I bet he'd still be there if it wasn't for the intern incident.
Midnight Writer
(21,803 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,192 posts)He was boycotted at CPAC & liberals consider him Satan. Nobody actually listens to him anymore. Recent tweets be damned.
certainot
(9,090 posts)and putin, and limbaugh led 2 months of shouts of HOAX! in the national COVID theater, reaching 50 mil a week from 1500 radio stations. the owners of those stationss need to lose their licenses and should have already aaafter 30 years of "THERE IS NO MAN MADE GLOBAL WARMING! IT'S ALL NATURAL! WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! BUY A BIGGER TRUCK YOU DUMBFUCK!"
morning joe is a cityfied joe who like most city dwellers in media and politics they either have no clue about talk radio or like joe seems to have forgotten how important it was in getting him through elections. morning joe 'ex repubublican needs to give limbaugh and sons (now fed increasingly by putin) a lot more 'credit' instead of going after tools like norquist, and he should know.
tblue37
(65,489 posts)certainot
(9,090 posts)they're going to hide behind the excuse that they're just trying to save the economy, trying to get more control to local govts to help them save jobs - that's what he's selling now
Hekate
(90,827 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)marble falls
(57,246 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)Nope! NOPE! You can't claim that and have anybody take it seriously. Nice try. Glad to hear it now, but don't even think people don't realize that you've started saying it once the reality of small government bites you in the ass. It was just fine with you as long as everyone else's rear end but yours was on the line.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)DEbluedude
(816 posts)"Well, that's exactly what's happened with NIH. That's exactly what's happened with the pandemic task force. That's exactly what's happened, again, with that 12% of the federal government, the domestic discretionary spending part, that small part of that pie that republicans have only had the political will to cut. Of course, expanding the defense budget at record rates, passing record tax cuts, being fiscally reckless, and then gutting the small part of the federal budget that actually would be saving lives right now, Mike."
AND:
"I'll tell you, Mika, I am a small government conservative. I've been fighting for small government and balanced budgets my entire life, I'm still a small government conservative,"
What Grover said is exactly what these fucks have been having wet dreams about for 40 years.
Scar is trying to act like the grown-up in the room. Fuck him.
ouija
(398 posts)ancianita
(36,137 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)which should weigh on their consciences except that sociopaths probably don't have consciences.
JHB
(37,162 posts)He's about 25 years late with it, but glad he's finally aboard (at least until it's opportune for him to jump back with his old buddies).
And Joe: Remind is how many times Newt has been on your show, and please make sure that's
the end of it.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)but on the other hand.......................his former record speaks volumes...................
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/joe_scarborough/400608
MarcA
(2,195 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)He is an accomplice in the dismantling of america and worse in electing trump. How many millions of free air time did he give trump.
It only took a pandemic and the likely deaths of 100k Americans for joe shmuckhead to fail at expressing any remorse.
Note that he still brags about being a small government conservative. The same band of shit heels who brought us to this sorry state. They worshipped norquist for 40 years and now want to pretend it was all norquists fault?
Fuck them all.
marieo1
(1,402 posts)They all just need to be drowned!!! My opinion!!
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)means Joe still doesn't get it. It was Reagan's call for tax cuts and small government that put us in this mess in the first place. It was small government Conservatives who pushed for things like firing the pandemic team, cutting the CDC budget, cutting taxes, killing Hillary's healthcare bill in the 90s, and killing Obamacare in the 21st Century. Joe is still not admitting his part in this.
orleans
(34,074 posts)aggiesal
(8,924 posts)Their answers are always parts that don't affect themselves.
Cut Social Security? NO
Cut VA? NO
Cut Law Enforcement? NO
Cut 1st Responders? NO
Cut Public School Spending? NO
And mostly "Keep your damn government hands off my Medicare"!
Everyone wants to cut my income tax, cut my property tax, cut my sales tax, cut my DMV fees, ... Cut, Cut, Cut.
Everyone wants the services, but nobody wants to pay for them.
orleans
(34,074 posts)absolutely right!
Boomerproud
(7,965 posts)Hell, when I saw "Joe" in the title I thought you were talking about Biden.