Scarborough to GOP: ‘Democrats Are in Control of the Floor, Until You Guys Start Acting Conservative’

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SCARBOROUGH: "You know, James Fellows, with the 'Atlantic', has been saying the same thing all year and it's pretty brilliant. He said, I -- And Corker's doing it here."
BRZEZINSKI: "Yeah."
SCARBOROUGH: "He’s like — floor speeches are fine. You protest against Trump are fine. Your rolled eyes, that's great. But we’re only two Republican senators away from stopping Donald Trump, from -- from -- from pushing the excesses of his policy agenda. Two Republicans. You know, back in the ‘90s, we needed 11. So 11 of us went to Newt Gingrich and said, spend less, get closer to balancing the budget, or we’re not voting for anything you put on the floor. A remarkable thing happened; they had to spend less money, they had to balance more accounts. We got a balanced budget. Here — it’s not that heavy lifting. Because you never know, you got 11 people in the room, you don’t know who is going back and whispering to the speaker to get a — a conspiracy of two. You only need two Republicans, Jeff Flake, 'Hi, great speeches, why don’t you talk to Bob Corker, you guys aren’t running again?' And on some of these more extreme measures, you’re going to block us from doing what 95 percent of conservatives in America want us to do on tariffs? Ninety five percent of small business owners want us to do? Ninety five percent of CEOs want us to do? Fine. We’re going to block everything else that you try to put on this floor. Don’t believe us? Give us a call. We’re going to be back in our home district golfing. Guess what? They would have to come to them. But the cowardice, Mika. We've talked about it time and time again. The cowardice of these people to actually stand up to this president. And -- and not just stand up and in a half-assed way."
BRZEZINSKI: "For a basic principle."
SCARBOROUGH: "But I’ve got to say -- I've got to say not in a half-assed way. And yes, I said it again, if you’re going to go there — if you’re going to invade Vienna — then take Vienna. You cannot say couple of things and want it back — Oh, but I'm voting with 98 percent — no. If you’re going to take Vienna, take Vienna, and tell the president until he stops supporting tariffs, until he stops supporting liberal policies that are more akin to what Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi wants. If he’s going to keep exploding the federal deficit, if he’s going to keep exploding the federal debt, if he’s going to keep bankrupting Social Security, if he’s going to keep bankrupting Medicare — you’re not on board any more. Two, two. It’s just not hard. And so guess what, you can’t just say, 'Oh, Mitch McConnell, he’s turned into Donald Trump’s boy', which he has, whipping boy, Mitch is scared of him. So he;s going to do whatever. That’s OK, fine, you do that to that bill, try passing something else. We can play that game. Right now, the Democrats are in control of the floor, until you guys start acting conservative. Guess what, it works. It's a numbers game."
BRZEZINSKI: "Well, I --"
SCARBOROUGH: "It’s not that hard. But there is no courage."