re: #16 Winny Spencer

Watching Morning Joe.

Man, I am so sick of people like Joe Scarborough harking on about the need to cut spending in order to reduce the deficit, while simultaneously supporting the extension of tax breaks for billionaires.

It’s all a sham, perpetrated in order to, in the parlance of Sharron Angle, “phase out” social security, Medicare and Medicaid .

I was going to let this slide but since it keeps getting updinged I thought I’d better point out you must have misheard part of the conversation. Scarborough was against the tax cut extensions (something I happen to disagree with) and has been for at least the last couple of years.

Here’s one such conversation:

MSNBC Video

which leads to this TP piece:

Scarborough Fumes Over Tax Deal: GOP Not ‘Interested In Cutting The Deficit,’ Obama Blew ‘An Easy Battle’
thinkprogress.org