Joe Scarborough: “I have got to say, I was running across the road today and coming over to speak in this House Chamber and saw a blizzard…”

“I have got to say, I was running across the road today and coming over to speak in this House Chamber and saw a blizzard outside and one of the people that I spoke to asked me, they said, what do you think about the groundhog now? I said, well, I am not real pleased with the groundhog's prediction, and this person suggested that the groundhog that predicted that we would have no more winter should be taken out and shot. I suggested, though, that maybe we should not be so tough on the groundhog for this faulty prediction as Washington is receiving its toughest winter storm of the year, because of the fact that sometimes in Washington, D.C. politicians and economists are not much better with their predictions. I remember 4 years ago when we first came up to Washington, D.C. I heard over and over again that this government could not balance its budget and that our plan to restore fiscal responsibility and fiscal sanity to the way that Congress and Washington and the White House ran its business, I heard that we could not get it done. Let us look at what happened 4 years later. Today we have an economy that is exploding. Some say that it is an economy that is stronger than any American economy ever before, and there are a lot of people that are lining up, taking credit and assigning responsibility to these great economic times.”