Joe Scarborough: “let us just look at recent history to amplify on what the gentleman has just said. Would we be even talking about to…”

“let us just look at recent history to amplify on what the gentleman has just said. Would we be even talking about to balance a budget at all? Let us look at what the President of the United States said this summer. In June, he said a balanced budget is not a priority of this Government, we do not need it right now. Then he went up to New Hampshire a month later, which coincidentally happens to be the first primary, and the voters said we need a balanced budget. So the President said we need a balanced budget. Then he came back to Washington. His advisers said we do not need a balanced budget. The President said we do not need a balanced budget. Then he went back up to New Hampshire, and the voters told him we need a balanced budget, and the President said we need a balanced budget, and this goes back and forth. The President did not even know if we needed a balanced budget. The majority of the Democratic Members have been arguing against any plan to balance the budget for over 9 months now. There is no leadership on that side of the aisle to do what over 88 percent of Americans want us to do, and that is just spend as much money as we take in, and, if you look at that, if you look at welfare reform, 1 year ago they are talking about spending more. We are talking about bringing in the reins. If you look at Medicare reform, we have a plan now that saves Medicare. Ask the seniors. Ask AARP. They know it saves Medicare. Again nothing from the other side.”