Joe Scarborough Blames Obama For Washington's Obstructions
The size of the memory hole grows ever larger.
On this morning's Morning Joe, Scarborough decides to compare his own glory days in the 1994 Congress (forever, Newt!) with the Tea Party.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: You know, Rick, I think for me personally, that's the great failure of Barack Obama. Everybody is going to blame it on the Republican Party like they could have blamed Bill Clinton's failures on. Instead of the Tea Party, it was Gingrich Republicans, guys like me back then, despite what the press will tell you today, we were no better than the Tea Party. We were just as mean and nasty and driven in all of the right ways to balance the budget. but Bill Clinton in 1995 brought in Dick Morris and figured out how to beat our brains out while working with us to get welfare reform, the first balanced budget in a generation. balanced it four years in a row for the first time since the 1920s. you could go down a long list of things that republicans and Bill Clinton did together and there was no reason to believe that that could ever happen without Bill Clinton willing to fight with us on our own turf and beat us.
Former Ted Cruz (yeah) campaigner Rick Wilson plays right along:
RICK WILSON: ...I do see it as a lot of lost potential. Michael mentioned LBJ who was a deal maker. working with Congress all the time to get things done and get things passed. Barack Obama didn't do that. He didn't have a good relationship with the Congress. certainly not Republicans. and not even Democrats.