Scarborough: Tea Party 'May Just Have Proved to be the Most Cunning and Rational of All Players in Washington'
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough said Tuesday that as a result of how the debt ceiling negotiations are going, the Tea Party freshmen in Congress "may just have proved to be the most cunning and rational of all players in Washington, D.C."
The host of "Morning Joe" told former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford this comes despite media depicting them as radical, reckless extremists (video follows with transcript and commentary):
FORMER DEMOCRAT CONGRESSMAN HAROLD FORD: I think both President Obama and Speaker Boehner looked weak last night for the singular reason that neither of them could stand up to the House Republican freshmen. If you’re John Boehner this morning, you have to understand one big thing: he got rolled also, because I think he wanted a big deal, and if his Speakership is going to be determined and decided in the course of it by what freshmen, whatever you want to call them, reckless, radical, I think some of them, a lot of them are, the Tea parts because they’re just unreasonable, then they are running this place.
JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Wait, but they say they’re unreasonable…
FORD: No, no, no.
SCARBOROUGH: …I’m here to say that at this point…
FORD: Whatever you want to call them, they are in charge.
SCARBOROUGH: No, no, no, I’m just saying…
FORD: On this issue, they are in charge.
SCARBOROUGH: I’m saying the take in the national media has been that these people are radical and they’re reckless and they’re extremists. But at the end of the day, hold on, at the end of the day, they get everything that they want. They may just have proved to be the most cunning and rational of all players in Washington, D.C. if they win everything.
Wow!
The look on Mika Brzezinski's face suggested that she quite agrees.
I'm sure that's not going to sit well with Scarborough's Obama-loving/Tea Party-hating colleagues at MSNBC.
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There's another possibility -
Submitted by almostacowboy on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:10am.
It could just be that the "freshmen" GOP members are RIGHT! Of course, I doubt that it would have ever occurred to a "conservative genius" such as the Mourning Schmoe.
tea party in charge?
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:17am.
hate to be pessimistic but from the media doesn't this just mean that they will be blamed for any and all bad news that can be conjured up by the economic 'experts' in the media. That long running 'unexpected' increase in jobless claims is about to become people force into joblessness by the hard line tea party.
Where have you been?
Submitted by WhoIsJohnGalt on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:59am.
They and the Republicans have been blamed for every ill all along, real or perceived. They're getting blamed for the results of WHATEVER deal is made, and the only way that they WON'T get blamed, is if the eventual outcome is positive, in which case they will credit Obama and the Dems!
At some point you need to realize this and stop worrying about it. I mean, look at all the headlines today about how Obama is trying to "help" Boehner, and how the Republicns are unreasonable, and this clip where Ford rips the Tea Party! It's ALWAYS their fault!!!
John Galt,
Submitted by Agnostic on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:36pm.
Not worried about it just recognizing the beginning of Joe's pattern - Something positive on the right => blame the right.
Joe is fiscally conservative in what he espouses but is quick to lay the blame on Conservatives when things go wrong even if the Conservatives are trying to be fiscally responsible.
Bigger problem...
Submitted by retrocon on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:29pm.
The bigger problem isn't the blame, because i agree with you that they get blamed (by the MSM) either way if the economy is bad.
Unfortunately, the counter is true. If the conservatives are successful in this, and business become more willing to move forward and hire, and the economy picks up. I can guarantee that Obama will get the credit, and get reelected. They won't even tout the debt solutions, the libs will say "It just took awhile for the stimulus to work."
And the sheeple will believe.
spread it around
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:24pm.
Heck, they blame the TEA party and the R's for David Wu raping a teenager!
admiration?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:21am.
Gee....Was that admiration coming from Moaning Joe?
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When libs admit that the Tea Party is in charge,
Submitted by johnsonl on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:52am.
they are admitting that the people of this nation are in charge. Our system works. It is going to work even better come Nov. 2012.
Mika "Well That's A Shame"
Submitted by Blonde on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 11:55am.
Remember, Mika, your demiGod Obama said it...."elections have consequences".
The human emote never fails to deliver.
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No, Ford. The extremists,
Submitted by Martin2717 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:14pm.
No, Ford. The extremists, radicals and reckless reside in your party and that includes you and the media. Dope.
No 12-man "commission:
Submitted by ThisnThat on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:17pm.
One thing they better reject is this so-called 12-man "commission" that's being proposed to decide upon the actual cuts in any deal that's made. 6 dims; 6 repubs? Forget it! I went to the polls last November to elect my representative, and I expect him to make decisions, not any "blue-ribbon commission". Why does Congress think their chosen 12 people can replace my Congressman? Especially since 6 of those people will be socialist communists, and more than zero will likely be RINOs. This concept is BS.
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The look on Mika Brzezinski's face suggested
Submitted by phryingphish on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 12:59pm.
The look on Mika Brzezinski's face suggested that the inside of her skull is empty and she would give that look if Joe said that Hitler has risin and will be declared leader of the world.
I kind of think
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 1:50pm.
the look on Mika's face said, "the cue said do the shark vacuum commercial, what's a shark vacuum?".
I posted part of this on the Gregory Article........
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:48pm.
I know these guys understand this, and they (The Media) are showing their partisanship. DEBT does not happen in a BALANCE... thus getting out of Debt DOES NOT require a balance... what they want with "Balance" is to maintain the STATUS QUO..... something the American people reject!!
Seems like Ford, Mika the airhead, and the other LIBERAL WHINERS, just don't get it! (The Look on Mikas face was one of hate and rage...) HOW DARE JOE talk bad about her god OBAMA! I tell you that if her eyes had been laser beams Joe would have been dust!
Liberals: No Morals, No Standards, NO Problem!
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OOOPS!
Submitted by KornKing on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:01pm.
Watch out Joe, could be a lot less in the way of cocktail party invitations coming your way
He was NOT admiring, he was
Submitted by amyshulk on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:12pm.
He was NOT admiring, he was chastising!!! Joe spent darn near the whole show trying to push this into the D's face - that the Tea Party "won" and that the Pres. "lost" and it sounded to me like he was trying to get the D's to stand up to the Tea Party!!!
When "eat your peas" was brought up, Joe actually said "The R's got the chocolate ice cream - no peas for them" or some such inanity. Where does he get this stuff??? So cutting spending NOW and not raising taxes instead of fake accounting and/or cuts in later years {which *never* happen} is chocolate ice cream in his mind.
Joe mentioned earlier how Pres. Clinton took the R's to the woodshed and flipped all the blame on them - I'm really surprised he wasn't making Mika faces with those sour grapes he's sucking on!!!
*edit - just watched the "What have we learned" segment - Mika actually said "A plea to the TP to let the hostages go" and said *they* were the root of the problem. It's official, she is a COMPLETE idiot!!!. She is so partisan, she is blaming US for congress' profligate ways over decades when the TP is NOT in power!!!
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The normally lefty Joe has
Submitted by Rusty Shackleford on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 2:53pm.
The normally lefty Joe has been making a lot of conservative points lately. A while back I heard he was considering either another run for the House or a run for Bill Nelson's senate seat. I wonder if these conservative comments are a way for him to get some conservative street cred.
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Well well
Submitted by ironhead4099 on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:27pm.
I quess there is hope for Joe Scab after all. I think he's going to get back into politics again, that's why he's changed his tune these last few weeks on Republicans. He doesn't want to burn his bridges BEFORE he crosses them!
Go Joe
Submitted by russedav on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 3:48pm.
Hopefully they'll get at least as big a black eye for dissing him as NPR did for dissing Williams, again proving their delusional fascist nature built on the lies of antiChristian bigotry our Founders warned and promised would be certainly fatal. As many decades as we've been raising the phallus and middle finger of asinine, infnatile, stupid rebellion in God's face we have no reason to complain if He breaks it off far more gently than we deserve. He sent a completely unexpected tornado to the ELCA in Minneapolis the very hour they voted to sodomize their denomination and they went right ahead and ignored Him anyway (http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/the-tornado-the-lutherans-and-homo...), proving man's depravity, as if any proof were needed in view of how we do to our unborn things even the Nazis and Soviets we laughably pretend to have defeated outlawed.