Scarborough: ‘A President that Cannot Control 45 Backbenchers in the Opposing Party… is Too Weak to Be President’
- Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:35pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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Well it appears Joe Scarborough is on a roll. First he called on “terminally stupid ideologues” to “stop using the Tea Party as a pinata,” and now he told his Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski that “a president that cannot control 45 backbenchers in the opposing Party in the House of Representatives is too weak to be President of the United States. It is that simple.”
Scarborough, who believes President Obama “has a power with that bully pulpit that nobody else has and he will not use it,“ thinks the President has caved in instances where other ”strong leaders,” namely Ronald Reagan, would not have.
NewsBusters provides the following portion of the exchange between the two Morning Joe hosts:
SCARBOROUGH: A president that cannot control 45 backbenchers in the opposing Party in the House of Representatives is too weak to be President of the United States. It is that simple. Lyndon Johnson would have eaten these people up for breakfast and spit them out before lunch.
BRZEZINSKI: Okay. These people though are the very people that I think don’t care…
SCARBOROUGH: Ronald Reagan wouldn’t put up, I mean, a strong leader doesn’t put up with it.
BRZEZINSKI: …about…
SCARBOROUGH: It doesn’t matter whether they care or not. You make them irrelevant to the process if you’re strong enough to do that.
Watch Scarborough deliver his latest inconvenient truth about President Obama below:
NewsBusters’ Noel Sheppard reportedly believes that Scarborough was spot-on in his assessment of Obama’s demonstrated lack of leadership, stating he agreed with Scarborough that “a Reagan, Johnson, or even a Clinton would have pushed back much more effectively.” Sheppard adds:
Consider that the real legislative impact of the Republican revolution in the ‘90s didn’t happen until after their second successful election in 1996. Clinton stonewalled their budget and tax cuts until 1997 thereby furthering his own reelection.
By contrast, Obama began caving to Tea Party demands in December weeks before any of them was sworn in. Now, eight months later, he has become almost irrelevant, a situation that as NewsBusters pointed out earlier has been enabled by his equally hapless fans in the media.
So despite the many radical policy changes implemented by his administration thus far, do you consider Obama to be weak?
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Comments (104)
normbal
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:13pmHey, Joe. This is America. We have three, count ‘em, three, CO-EQUAL branches of government (this is true despite the powers the judiciary and the executive have usurped for 220 years). Those “bank benchers” are the true guardians of liberty. God bless ‘em.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:21pmking obama hates the three branches of government , he d like to get rid of them and declare himself king
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:38pmI agree ..and we must continue the pressure .. so that Obama DOESN’T declare himself KING!
TEA!
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:38pmnormbal@ Thank you…amen…there were only a few Tea Party folks who were voting NO…they were a minority in the house as it was..they could actually do very little and whether they voted for it or against it, their votes counted very little..it was only a token vote, but these fine people stuck to their guns and did what they believed in or what they felt the people wanted that put them into office, which is why there were there…to represent us. God Bless Them. I am sick of Politicians on both sides, who get elected to go to DC and then vote the way they want, instead of what their people at home want. They didn’t hold anyone HOSTAGE…how could they.??? That would like 2 little lambs in a cage with 12 tigers…who do you think is gonna be the winner???
Report Post »DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:22amthey actually aren’t co-equal. the executive is supposed to be the weakest.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:51amDuring the Bush years I was a DEMOCRAT.. or at least thought I was.. I will be honest BUSH scared me as much as OBAMA.. and for the SAME reasons.. BOTH of them would have liked this to NOT to be a REPUBLIC with 3 EQUAL branches of government.. what I am reading here is the SAME things the other side was saying when BUSH was in office..I left the DEMOCRATS because I did not share the values or morals of the party..and I did not run to the right because BUSH and OBAMA share many of the same ones.. same end means but different delivery.. thus far both Bush and Obama govern by regulations and Presidential order.. I am hoping this time the GOP actually runs someone who I can vote for.. NOT because they are bully’s..not because they believe they are right.. or righteous.. but because they KNOW that their job is only 1/3 .. and that it’s the PEOPLE who govern.. The President’s job is NOT to make LAWS or to just SPEND.. That would be the job of the SENATE and CONGRESS.. Nor should he be pushing HIS/HER agenda.. the end of the day the AGENDA is what the populace wants..
Report Post »Marci
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:32amThe left sure does keep calling for a dictatorship, don’t they? I am not buying the “negative” attention of the leftist media. They are pressuring him to be even more progressive and bypass Congress. Bunch of angry, impish little moonbats.
Report Post »The ME-ssiah
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 1:50amJoe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s opinions are NOT news. They are worthless opinions nobody cares about, so I don’t know why they are headline news here every day all of a sudden. Especially when they are just as worthless as ever.
Report Post »NOTAMUSHROOM
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 8:07am@Independentvoter
Very well said my friend. Very well said indeed.
Report Post »alwaysracism
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:00pmcalling President Obama weak is the dumbest mess ever….this is the same man who had the guts to get rid of Osama bin Laden. Something the previous president was too WEAK to do. President Obama did what he had to do in order to keep this country operating and I’m sure this person knows that. This mess just make me sick! The tea party people just want President Obama to fail at all costs! It is as simple as that!
Report Post »StanO360
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:34pmScarborough, his show and his channel are irrelevant to the nation, political discourse and even entertainment.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on August 11, 2011 at 9:37amIs Joe coming back to his conservative beginnings? The funniest thing about this whole Morning Joe thing is his Idiot looking blond partner rolling her eyes and looking disgusted with him. Funny!
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:12pmAnd then there is this
:http://thewebfairy.com/hardtruth/nelsonrockefellerandfortknoxscandel.htm
Report Post »PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:11pmI see, so if people would have let Obama just immediately raise the debt AND the spending we’d have had no rating downgrade?
Report Post »Is it me or does this lack common sense?
Blue Collar Conservative
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 2:12amI makes perfect sense if your trying to institute an authoritarian government.
Report Post »dscon
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:08pmhey joe!
getting pretty cocky eh?
try saying you think the president is “KIND OF A D-CK”……….
lets see if you got the nads for that! LOL
your last lib partner did…
Report Post »lonewolf57
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:08pmJoe ‘Clutch Cargo’(only the lips move) Scarborough.The same little Joe who called Beck a “nobody”.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/12/joe-scarborough-beck-was-a-nobody-before-fox/
Sorry ‘Clutch’,President Reagan was a man of the people.And principle.An he played the media like a violin.
Hey Joe,President Reagan wasn’t a phony such as yourself.Now go get on your knees and ask Roger Ailles for a real job on a real network.
Report Post »BS61
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 3:41amExactly! That is what he is shooting for, a job! How many times in the past has this guy let his blonde cohost go on and on?!!!
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:37amWouldn’t give Joe a job on Fox. He’s too much of a RINO, couldn’t cut it and would not add much in the way of significance.
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:05pmIs Scarboro Bill Clinton’s love child…he has the Clinton nose. Just wondering.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:03pmThen there is one thing that Beck said that has not gotten much attention. That things would go so bad for Obummer that Hillary would ride to the rescue and run for office. The fact that the lib media is starting to sound like they are making sense when it comes to Obummer’s inadequacies makes me want to watch the other hand, as many here have said. I believe that Clinton is to the left of Obummer. Can you imagine?
Report Post »IM_UR_HUCKLEBERRY
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:07pmWhen this guy grow a pair?
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:10pmShe is to the left of Obama. Even Bill Clinton wasn’t that far left and he did have the good sense to change direction and compromise. He wouldn‘t have had a second term if he hadn’t. One thing about Obama and probably Hillary neither one can change direction. They are socialists/communists and it’s who they are. To change would be to self destruct…to destroy the image they have in their heads of who they are.
Report Post »RA0725
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 12:25amHillary Clintons senior thesis was titled “There Is Only the Fight: An Analysis of the Alinskey Model”
She personally interviewed Saul Alinskey for the paper.
She is just as radical as Obama, and has cojones.
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:02pmWhen are they going to wise up…“tea party” is another name for the vast majority of American Voters who dont like the direction Obama is taking the country. It’s a movement away from socialism and toward democracy. Not a party. Anyone, any party, who ignores the people will pay for their arrogance.
Report Post »dave928
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:21pmWe don‘t like the direction of the county is going not just by the current Administration’s direct. We don’t like the direction Congress started to take us when they thought they got a “green light” from everyone to start down the path to Socialism with the election of Obama. If anyone was paying half attention at the time, you saw this coming 5 years ago with the election of a Democrat controlled Congress in 2006
Report Post »MerryColin
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:57pmNo, it is not towards “democracy” aka mob-ocracy! Use care in your words!
Report Post »carbonyes
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 9:48amThe Dumocrats still don’t get it.The work, growth and impact of the “Tea Party” has just begun, and true, it is not a party. It is a movement of dissatisfied, fed up Americans like Popeye, who “have had all they can stands, and they can’t stands no more”. There is a rumbling and a ground swell, and the more the liberals chirp, speak lies and try to stuff their liberal, communist agenda down the throats of the American people, the louder the response and the larger the numbers. “It’s only just begun.”
Report Post »beekeeper
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:59pmLeaders lead, posers apportion blame… When the going gets tough, this “leader” tries to get his supporters to tweel/email/phone Congress and the Senate… Weak.
Report Post »USMarine0311
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:58pmWhat either we are backbenchers or we are the cause of all the problems. Also Scarbough needs to chill out he seems stressed. If you want some information that will shut up the left on blaming the Tea Party here is a link to some good information.
http://mypoliticalprofile.net/wordpress/2011/fault-line-of-the-us-debt/
Report Post »IntransigentMind
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:04pmThe problem with Scarborough is that he’s only half serious. He’s another one of these guys who wants to get along with the left. It can’t be done without serving them.
http://markamerica.com/2011/08/09/the-difference-between-us/
They don’t want peace, and they don’t share your values. Scarborough should finally grasp this. On that network, I doubt he will.
Report Post »Brian
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:55pmHey Joe, those “backbenchers” are controlling the debate. Irrelevant is a faux conservative on a cable network no one watches. Dope.
Report Post »darkrage000
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:53pm‘you make them irrelevant to the process’
hrmm.. only way to do that is by brazenly defying the Constitution and our Laws by acting like a dictator and deciding that Congress means nothing… is that what Scarborough thinks that a president should do?
Report Post »lapitup
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:50pmIt sounds like Joe thinks we have a King for a president and everything he says we as a nation should oblige.
Report Post »Ghandi was a Republican
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:50pmRonald Reagan was exercising an undisputed mandate approved by the voters under truthful pretenses! Big Difference. He was a LEADER, a visionary – not a charlatan used car salesman..
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:58pmI doubt the potus could sell a car at a dealership.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:05pmCould not sell a Jumbo Jack at Jack In The Box
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:08pm@Stoic one— We have no doubt he can’t even sell cars. Remember cash for klunkers?.That was a disaster!
Report Post »hellnomo
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:36pmI bet Obammy knows how to boost a car though!
Report Post »Wellnow
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:48pmWell Now Joseph, seems you may be trying to interview for a job at FOX! Be careful they will get you for this!
Report Post »bbhouston
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:11pmHardly….Scarborough is disappointed in Obama. The problem he and the dems have is the ‘power of the teaparty’. Since the teaparty’s first march on D.C. over Obamacare, the left has tried to trivialize and demonize the teaparty. The left was scared from day one. Obama fled Washington to Minnesota that weekend. Marginalize and trivialize……..
The left knows the majority of Americans hold to the teaparty’s values. Before the public catches on the left knows it has to find new and more sophisticated ways to demonize the teaparty….. and Joe Scarborough in this bit is an attempt at that. “Obama can’t control the teaparty(the backbenchers)”…..ie…he can’t control the insignifigant idealogues…..
The only ones who are afraid of the teaparty’s power are the Democrats and the Rinos….deep down and up front….THEY KNOW…………….We are Coming
Report Post »NuffSaid
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:48pmThe American Revolution was fought and won by less than 10 % of the population. So if you are a minority, you are a “Back Bencher” according to Scarburrow, the bench warmer.
Don’t do conservatives any favors, you slimy toad.
Report Post »DeniseWS
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:46pmWhy all of a sudden is Joe acting like a Republican?… don’t trust him one bit. He is a RINO! big time… maybe his contract is going to be up @ MSNBC and he feels that he say things that he SHOULD have been saying all along.
Report Post »Cheetosareus
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:04pmI thought he was insulting republicans.
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:46pmMSLSD is finding their ratings increase, he just might stay until after the 2012 election.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:45pmHe isn’t weak…he is a fool and a puppet. He has nothing to say but “tax the rich” and has nothing to do but play golf and party as the nation burns…and it burns because he started the damn fire!
How anyone voted for this man child I will never know. Our Country is full of idiot teat suckers. Well as a taxpayer I may go Gault on you with a couple of million more that feel the same way… Then let’s see what the teat suckers do when they have no welfare check or unemployment check…
I am sick of seeing the “poor” enjoy big screen televisions, free housing, free cell phones, computers and also use drugs and alcohol. I say take their free ride away!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:45pmWell , Lyndon got rid of anyone in his way to THE GREAT SOCIETY. Anybody, right Jack. Billy BJ Clinton folded to the Republican Congress which is they only thing that saved ,what was left of his family’s self respect.
Report Post »Barry is no LBJ, WJC, and couldn‘t carry Ronaldus Magnus’s water.
AmericanStrega
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:42pmObama is weak and Joe’s just trying to get more ratings.
Report Post »bigbear_awake
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:56pmYou have them pegged watch the other hand
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:20pmAlways do bigbear, always do. Prepare my friend, and stay safe.
Report Post »chickenfried
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:40pmObama IS weak…but he’s sneaky too. Kinda reminds me of that little brat on the playground at school….calling everyone names and running to the teacher before he could get his little arse whooped. He is cunning like a serpent, but a wuss when confronted with the truth. He is radical and has surrounded himself with some very dangerous people, but his glass jaw has become obvious to the entire world.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:47pmI can’t stand it when he struts around like a “big man”. Makes me want to puke.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:48pmDusty … the only thing worse than the “struting” is his TOTUS speeches … God I can’t stand that phoney reading he does… and his left -right left right left right … never looking at “we the people” …I can’t listen to it!
TEA!
Report Post »alwaysracism
Posted on August 10, 2011 at 11:53amcan’t wait for the right-wing nuts to take office….what goes around comes around!! We dems will NEVER forget any of this evilness towards a man who won the nobel peace prize and got rid of Osama bin Laden!
Report Post »poverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:40pmBarack Hussein Obama Jr doesn’t confront righteousness directly, he slithers indirectly, that’s how satan works.
Report Post »fatjack
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 11:46pmpoverty.sucks
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:40pm
Barack Hussein Obama Jr doesn’t confront righteousness directly, he slithers indirectly, that’s how satan works.
Report Post »=============================================
Are you sayin’ he is the one?
bikerr
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:40pmWe can now assume he will be at Fox news soon .You can’t call out a liberal and keep your job.
Report Post »xoke
Posted on August 9, 2011 at 10:39pmMan Scarborough must be up for a new contract or something…or maybe he is trying to get fired? I guess if I had to put up with that little hapless tart all morning I might be seeking other employment as well, lol.
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