Joe Scarborough: “I have had a fairly good environmental rating over the past couple of years, but what happened last week shows us how…”

“I have had a fairly good environmental rating over the past couple of years, but what happened last week shows us how far environmentalists will go; actually, not even environmentalists, but environmental extremists, how far they will go to pursue their agenda. We had an opportunity last week to allow people in California to make repairs on a levee that had already broken several times and it actually killed Americans after the levee broke. Yet, when we had an opportunity to allow people to go in and make repairs on that levee, the environmentalists went absolutely crazy and said that they would not allow anybody to fix the levee that had already killed people without waivers. They said that there was a beetle inside of shrubbery that was so precious that they could not allow these life-saving measures to be taken. So the shrubbery caucus decided that the life of beetles and the life of shrubbery was obviously more important than the life of human beings. Mr. Chairman, as the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Traficant] says, beam me up. That just does not make sense.”