Joe Scarborough is an Ass

So I woke up about 2:30 this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. There was some good stuff on the TV, though I couldn't watch most of it because my cable system, RCN, sucks. So I was not in the best of moods when Morning Joe came on at 5, though I'm not sure I can be in the right mood for that show, because Joe Scarborough is an ass.

So Joe starts fulminating about the staggering National Debt. He hearkens back to more halcyon days when his hero, Ron Reagan, was President. He states that the accumulated debt of all the Presidents prior to Reagan was $1 trillion. He goes on about the current situation, the $12 trillion debt that he says "has Obama's footprint all over it." Obama has signed one spending bill, and Joe thinks it was for $11 trillion dollars. That's because Joe Scarborough is an ass.

Joe forgets to mention that President Reagan left office with a National Debt just shy of $3 trillion dollars. Joe Scarborough is an ass, but he is also a conservative Republican, by which I mean a god damned liar. Those of his ilk will always leave you with the impression that Democrats are wastrels and Republicans are thrifty. How do you triple the debt in eight years by being thrifty. You don't. Conservative Republicans don't conserve money. The last Republican President to have a balanced budget, or a surplus, was Eisenhower! But Joe won't tell you that, because Joe Scarborough is an ass.

By the end of George Bush's last fiscal year, this coming September, the debt will have doubled since he took office. Joe will now say that Bush wasn't a conservative. Joe didn't mention any of this the last eight years. He's now like St. Paul, the scales have fallen from his eyes and he sees the light - Hallelujah! Bush was not a conservative. When I say he's like St. Paul, it's about the blindness. St. Paul was, well, a saint. Joe Scarborough is an ass.

Later, Andy Card joins Joe and there is much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the debt. Andy Card, as Chief of Staff, was the first mate on the good ship Piss All the Money Into a Hole. His explanation was that the Democrats exerted too much power during the Bush years. He really said that! Joe nodded in agreement, or else was just doddering. Joe Scarborough is an ass.

It's always the Democrats fault. The control they exerted was obviously hiding the veto pen from the President. The Congressional Democrats must have been the ones who loaded pallet upon pallet full of hundred dollar bills, hundreds of tons of them, and sent them off to Iraq where they went missing. (Nobody is in prison for this, by the way.) Joe agrees wholeheartedly. Joe Scarborough is an ass.

Later, Joe asks Peggy Noonan why there is not more of an outcry from the public as to this deplorable situation. She says that the majority of Americans are more concerned about their day to day lives, that they don't get up each morning overly concerned about government finances. That may be true. It also may be true that if people like Joe Scarborough didn't lie to them, they might have a better understanding of what was truly happening. Joe Scarborough is an ass.

Joe twitters. He's not an ass because he twitters, but Joe Scarborough is an ass. I saw an interview with the guy who founded Twitter. He had a great quote as to the 144 character limit: "creativity will be inspired by these constraints." Really, he said that. I think it's funny.

I also think that Joe Scarborough is an ass.