Joe Scarborough: “let our people go? The Speaker and this House have bent over backwards. We have passed two balanced budget plans, we…”

“let our people go? The Speaker and this House have bent over backwards. We have passed two balanced budget plans, we have passed appropriation bills. The President vetoed the first balanced budget plan in a generation. The President has vetoed the Interior bill. The President has vetoed bills that would get funding for veterans' affairs, for HUD, for the Environmental Protection Agency. This truly is the do-nothing President. His people are telling him at the White House, ``Do nothing, stand in the road, block progress, fight a balanced budget at all costs. That is what you need to do, Mr. President. Be firm, do nothing, and your poll points will go up.'' Maybe they will. I really do not care whether his poll points go up or not. The fact of the matter is we have put on the table the first balanced budget in a generation, and if the President wants to continue standing in the way of that, fine. We are going to balance this budget with or without him.”