Joe Scarborough Brutally Mocks House GOP Spending Bill After Boasting They Won’t ‘Put Up With the Bull Sh*t’ in DC
Joe Scarborough is less than impressed with what he sees as situational standards on display with the House GOP and a recently passed spending solution.
At issue is a temporary and bipartisan spending bill passed on Tuesday designed to avert a government shutdown, which extends government funding through mid-January. It will now head to the Senate, where both Democratic and Republican leadership have signaled it will likely pass. Great, right?
Well, as the Morning Joe host pointed out in a Wednesday morning fit of frustration, the entire drama of ousting Kevin McCarthy as Speaker last month, as well as the government shutdown, could have easily been avoided had the “grown-ups” in the room shown leadership then, as opposed to now, six weeks after perhaps the most embarrassing spell for a majority party in the House of Representatives.
Scarborough opened by citing a Wall Street Journal column titled “Meet the New Speaker, Same as the Old Speaker,” in which the WSJ Editorial Board notes the apparent shifting principles, or as the DEK reads, “Like Kevin McCarthy, Mike Johnson had no choice other than to rely on Democrats to keep the government open.” The horror!
The column leads with:
Pop quiz: What’s the difference between the bipartisan stopgap funding bill that passed the House Tuesday under new Speaker Mike Johnson, and the September equivalent passed under former leader Kevin McCarthy? Answer: Nothing but the self-defeating Republican drama.
After reading that part to viewers, Scarborough put his own spin on the events of the past six or so weeks of “drama” with House Republicans, where he once served decades ago:
But it further exposes the hollow claims that McCarthy made for their October exhibitionism. And that’s all it was. It was sound, fury and gestures signifying nothing. But what do we say? An attempt to get more hits on Tik Tok and more clicks and more $25 donations from a fickle, yet committed conservative? Oh, he’s really committed. Oh, what they’re called. They’re not putting up with the bullshit that’s going on in Washington, D.C. They’re going to get real conservative. And what did they do? They got it. Guy that passed the bill the same way Kevin McCarthy passed the bill. Because and this is important for the grown ups in the room, it was the only way to pass the bill.
Yup. Bonus points to the cable news host using a comically lower voice and working blue with the barnyard reference in much the same manner that sports fans chant their displeasure at a referee’s missed call. We feel you, Joe.
Watch above via MSNBC.
