On Thursday, Morning Joe welcomed authors Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein onto the show to discuss their new book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism. As the discussion turned to clashes between the two major parties and the “tribal politics” they partake in, host Joe Scarborough called out the two authors for “acting as if the Democrats are the only keepers of honesty and truth.”

Mediaite’s Noah Rothman had some harsh words for Joe Biden‘s Wednesday speech in which the vice-president “went nuclear on the rich.” Many conservatives agree with that sentiment and wondered how far Biden can go with demonizing the rich. But one person on the right thinks the speech was well-done: MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough was flummoxed by a new CBS News/New York Times poll that shows Obama’s support among female voters plummeting five points over the last two months, from 49% to 44% with Romney up 3 from 43% to 46%. “Remember the gender gap, Mark Halperin? What happened?” Scarborough asked.

Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Monday, former Obama adviser Steve Rattner criticized the new anti-Romney ad put out by the Obama campaign that claims Romney was a “job destroyer.” “Were you embarrassed by this?” host Joe Scarborough asked.

On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the timing of this week’s big headline that presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney had held down a presumably gay fellow student and cut his hair. It it mere coincidence, he wondered, that this story has come out right on the heels of President Barack Obama‘s “big nothing” of an announcement that, while he personally supports gay marriage, he’ll leave it to individual states to decide for themselves whether they will allow it?

On Monday night around 11 p.m., former GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum offered his endorsement of the party’s presumptive nominee Mitt Romney in the form of an email, voicing his official support deep in the message’s thirteenth paragraph. Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, for one, wasn’t having it.

On Monday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough approached Vice President Joe Biden‘s recent comments about same-sex marriage with a hearty dose of skepticism. Biden, you may recall, told Meet the Press‘s David Gregory this weekend that same-sex marriage comes down to an issue of “Who do you love? And will you be loyal to the person you love?“

Well, we don’t think Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski found it at all hilarious. Here’s what happened: After showing Massachusetts’ Democratic senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren‘s new political ad featuring President Barack Obama, fellow host Joe Scarborough had a laugh over Warren’s inclusion of the man who fired her.

On Tuesday — the one year anniversary of Osama bin Laden‘s death, in case you’d been living under a fairly heavy rock — the Morning Joe crew took a look at whether it was appropriate for President Barack Obama‘s re-election campaign to tout the discovery and killing of the terrorist leader as a victory for the Obama administration this campaign season. In this case, is “politicizing” a dirty word?

Today, President Obama‘s re-election campaign released its new one-word slogan: “Forward.” On this morning’s edition of Morning Joe, Politico’s White House correspondent Mike Allen said that the single-word slogan was an effort to spin the campaign’s message more positively. “A great bumper sticker is not ‘It Could Be Worse,’” Allen explained. And so we get the single-word slogan.

On Thursday, Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough delved into the question of whether Florida Senator Marco Rubio — whose name continually pops up when talk turns to Mitt Romney’s potential pick for VP — is prepared to take on the task. Oh, and they also talked about Rubio losing the last page of his speech on foreign policy. Slightly awkward, that.

Last week Mika Brzezinski sat down and answered a few questions about her career and daily routine for The New York Times. Naturally, the interview soon took a turn into Scarborough country, and Brzezinski compared her co-host to a “gay stylist” and talked in some detail about the weird chemistry the two of them seem to have on Morning Joe.

Perhaps the most outspoken member of Florida’s congressional delegation is also one of their most polarizing. Freshman Republican Rep. Allen West generates a lot of buzz when he makes a television appearance – and he makes them often. In almost every appearance, however, he makes an avoidable misstatement which suggests that Congressman West is not ready for prime time.

On Friday, the Morning Joe panel got into a heated argument over two of the week’s more controversial news stories: Rep. Allen West‘s comment about “communists” and Hilary Rosen‘s remark that Ann Romney had “actually never worked a day in her life.”

On Thursday, the Morning Joe gang took a look at recent comments made by Rep. Allen West concerning the Democratic party. According to a local report, West told an audience in Florida he’d “heard” that up to 80 House Democrats are members of the Communist Party. West’s campaign manager, Tim Edson, came forward saying that West’s statements had been misrepresented by a “stupid reporter” at a local publication who “misquoted the entire thing.”

On Wednesday, the crew at Morning Joe invited on seasoned investigative journalist Carl Bernstein to discuss our recent history of war, particularly where former president George W. Bush is concerned.

Like morgue technicians conducting an autopsy on a body, the panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe picked apart at the corpse of Rick Santorum‘s Presidential Campaign and tried to evaluate what went wrong for the erstwhile Republican hopeful. Joe Scarborough surmised that had Santorum made more of a focus on economic populism, he would’ve been able to survive the onslaught of the Mitt Romney “Death Star.”

On Monday, the folks at Morning Joe shared a few of their favorite memories of and interviews by Mike Wallace, the journalist and famed 60 Minutes correspondent who passed away on Saturday (and a particular memory about his colleague, Andy Rooney, who evidently never cared much for Mika Brzezinski‘s taste in footwear.)

On Friday, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough weighed in on the discussion surrounding RNC chair Reince Priebus‘ recent remark that a “war on women” is little more than a fabrication by the media and is about as realistic as a GOP “war on caterpillars.”

Thursday’s Morning Joe gave us an impromptu fashion show courtesy of guest panelist Donny Deutsch, who — as per the reaction of his colleagues — arrived on set looking like a cross between a yacht club reject and Elton John.

During the Wednesday edition of Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough observed that “nobody” was expecting Republican hopeful Mitt Romney to beat President Obama in 2012. “Nobody thinks Romney’s going to win,” Scarborough said candidly. “Let’s just be honest. Can we just say this for everybody at home? Let me just say this for everybody at home.”

On Tuesday, the Morning Joe crew tried to rein in their laughter over Ann Romney‘s recent comments regarding “unzipping” her husband, Mitt Romney, to reveal that he’s “not stiff.”

On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough delivered a devastating critique of conservative sites that have engaged in a coordinated effort to tarnish the reputation of Trayvon Martin in death. “Why is it that some on the right are actually taking this up as a cause,” asked an incredulous Scarborough.

On Thursday, the team at Morning Joe took some time offer their two cents on Mitt Romney‘s recent “humorous story” about his father having closed a factory in Michigan. It wasn’t the first time the former governor said something that could potentially alienate voters — or, at least, rub them the wrong way. Could it be more than just a “gaffe”?

On Wednesday morning, Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough shared a funny (and/or truly heartbreaking?) story about his co-host Mika Brzezinski‘s high-achieving family.