Political Ruminations

Morning Quote: Joe Scarborough

During a discussion of Obama’s executive actions on gun control, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough warned his party to tread carefully where gun control is concerned:

“My Republican Party better tread very lightly. They’d better be very careful. They have wandered in and followed the NRA, whose (sic) made some horrible PR mistakes over the past month. Republicans better be careful and think twice before they make their next move.”

Watch:

Via Mediaite

Morning Quote: David Frum

During a rehash of why Republicans lost the election on Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough asked Conservative author David Frum “What was Mitt Romney’s message?”. Frum’s response was scathing and direct:

“Mitt Romney's message is, 'I am going to take away Medicare from everybody under 55. I'm going to cut Medicaid for everybody by about a third, and I'm going to do that in order to finance a giant tax cut for me and my friends, and the reason I'm doing that is because half of the country contribute nothing to our national endeavors.'”

Watch (the section I quoted begins at approx. 1:36):

Moronic Quote of the Week

Mark Halperin, the former Palin worshipper, columnist hack for TIME magazine, regular contributor to MSNBC, and all around Conservative media jerk, called President Obama “a dick” on Morning Joe today:

MSNBC has suspended Halperin indefinitely, he has apologized both on air and on Twitter and has said that he “deeply regrets it”, but hey, I’m pretty sure Mark Halperin only regrets getting caught, and thus suspended.

In my view, Halperin has always been the dick in the room.

Quote of the Day – Scarborough Calls Scott Walker “Un-American”

During his show, “Morning Joe” on MSNBC today, Joe Scarborough, more or less called Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker “un-American”.

I'm going to get so killed for saying this ... I'm going to get killed for saying this. I don't understand. It seems -- I'm going to get so killed for this. I don't understand. I hate to say this, but the concept of telling people that they cannot come together to negotiate, with a government -- it just kind of seems un-American to me.

Watch:

Then of course, Scarbough goes on to improperly frame the whole issue, but still…..wingnuts should take note when even Scarborough thinks you’re whacked out, you are definitely out there.

Via Bob Cesca

Morning Quote - Joe Scarborough on the Republicans 2012 Problem

MSNBC host, and former congressman, Joe Scarborough, in his piece for Politico on November 30, on the ‘Palin Problem’:

Republicans have a problem. The most-talked-about figure in the GOP is a reality show star who cannot be elected. And yet the same leaders who fret that Sarah Palin could devastate their party in 2012 are too scared to say in public what they all complain about in private.

Morning Quote: Joe Scarborough on Sarah Palin

From Scarborough's piece on Politico this week:

What man or mouse with a fully functioning human brain and a resume as thin as Palin's would flirt with a presidential run?

Not that we don’t already know the answer to that. And that would be a creature with an anaconda-sized ego, and the brain of a mouse.

Morning Quote: Former Bush Adviser on Sarah Palin

Speaking on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ on Wednesday, Nicolle Wallace, George W. Bush’s former communications adviser, and a member of John McCain’s campaign staff in 2008, was just a tiny bit critical of Sarah Palin:

I believe that if she were on the cusp of becoming the nominee for the Republican party a whole lot of people... would talk about some of her more troubling deficiencies, Her incredible cynicism, her bitterness, her aggressive attempts to claw anyone that points out an area for her to work on, I think these things will continue to reveal herself and the people that love her will continue to love her, but the people who are not so sure about her will, I think, formulate harder opinions and more clarity about her.

Earlier this week, Joe Scarborough himself made news when he wrote a piece for Politico in which he made it clear that he was not a fan of Sarah Palin.

Quote of the Day – Morning Joe Scarborough on Sarah Palin

Referring to Sarah Palin’s derogatory remarks about George H.W. Bush, Scarborough’s remarks are scathing. From Politico:

I suppose Palin's harsh dismissal of this great man is more understandable after one reads her biography and realizes that, like Bush, she accomplished a great deal in her early 20s. Who wouldn't agree that finishing third in the Miss Alaska beauty contest is every bit as treacherous as risking your life in military combat? Maybe the beauty contestant who would one day be a reality star and former governor didn't win the Distinguished Flying Cross, but the half-termer was selected as Miss Congeniality by her fellow contestants.

I’m far from a fan of anyone in the Bush family, but I know this. I would far rather see George H.W. Bush as the president than see Sarah Palin elected as U.S. Dogcatcher at Large.

Adding….Mrs. Dumb and Divisive must have threatened the other contestants in order to win “Miss Congeniality”.

Via HuffPost

VIDEO: Morning Joe Forced to Retract His False Equivalency Between the Chamber and Moveon.org

Joe Scarborough is a moron.

 

The Washington Post:

I suppose this is par for the course. But perhaps it should be part of the discussion that right wing commentators who claim lefty groups and unions are running ads funded by anonymous donors -- just as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other righty groups are doing -- are just flat out lying.

This lie is so easily debunked that Joe Scarborough actually retracted it today on Morning Joe after making the claim and getting corrected. Will Karl Rove and Fox News and others spreading this falsehood or letting it go unchecked do the same?

Scarborough, during a discussion this morning of the Obama-and-Dem-versus-Chamber dust-up, called on President Obama to demand disclosure from unions and MoveOn, claiming "blatant hypocrisy."

But the comparison is totally bogus. Under Federal law, unions disclose far more about their funding than other political groups do, and it just so happens that MoveOn's ads are funded by a Federal political committee that has to comply with the same disclosure requirements that candidate and party committees do.

Crooks and Liars:

Uh huh. Or you're just so eager to deflect rightful criticism that the Citizens United ruling and the frightening thought that foreign contributions are now affecting American elections, that you just pulled erroneous facts from a location near that hip. There is no equivalence on the left to the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham). There are no huge paychecks from shadowy billionaires eager to foist their selfish and short-sighted world view on the rest of the country. And Democrats are being outspent 7 to 1.

We've done posts on the foreign interests, as have Think Progress and other liberal blogs. I don't see a need to rehash it, probably not nearly as well as others have. But I do think that the importance of this cannot be overstressed: We will NEVER have any true democracy or fair elections until we demand public financing. All other complaints about weak-kneed Democrats or corporatist Republicans or being sidelined and not listened to take a back seat to that one fact.

As I said on another post, the situation forced on Americans by the Citizens United ruling, is the most important issue of our time. And if we do not legislate that elections be publicly financed, it is not an overstatement to say that America will no longer even resemble a democracy.

Morning Joe Scarborough Caught in a Blatant Lie

On Morning Joe today, after getting some flack regarding his lack of attention to the One Nation rally, Scarbough said that he doesn’t pay attention to rallies. .

The Political Carnival quickly caught him out in his lie, via a simple Google search, video posted below.

The man is a moron. The video features Scarborough talking Glenn Beck’s rally, which of course, gives the lie to his statement today regarding the One Nation rally.

And by the way, on the video clip, they’re claiming that there were 500,000 attendees at Beck’s rally on August 28. Not so. The number is 87,000.