‘Morning Joe’ Yearns for Jeb Bush Presidency to Save the Swamp

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host, Joe Scarborough, yearned Tuesday for a Jeb Bush presidency and urged Americans “to grow up” and elect a political insider “who actually knows how Washington works.”

Scarborough and the “Morning Joe” panel lamented that the American people didn’t see fit to elect someone from the Establishment who knew how to navigate the swamp and “make their lives better.” Instead, they put billionaire businessman Donald Trump in the Oval Office for at least four years.

“I want to know when Americans are going to grow up and understand that they need to elect people who actually know how Washington works and know how to make their lives better,” Scarborough said. “Because I’m sick and tired of this, ‘We’re going to get outside and hate Washington.’ Look where it’s led us over the past 17 years. Look where we are with Donald Trump.”

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Scarborough likened the American people’s decision to elect a businessman to the presidency to a patient’s choice to allow an unskilled person to act as a neurosurgeon or dentist to treat their ailments.

“That’s how we have been approaching governing,” Scarborough said. “And as hard as being a neurosurgeon and as hard as being a dentist is and as hard as being a plumber is, and as hard as being everything is, it’s pretty damn hard to run the most consequential, frustrating government on the face of the Earth and the greatest government on the face of the Earth.”

Because Trump embraced his outsider status and pledged to “drain the swamp” that is the federal government, panel member Eugene Robinson, a columnist for The Washington Post, said the country’s decision to elect the former reality TV star to America’s highest public office “demonized” Washington.

Robinson added that Trump and his campaign promises to “drain the swamp” and combat the status quo represent the demonization of the experienced Washington political Establishment.

“Washington has been demonized. Washington has been sort of pigeonholed as a place where nothing good happens, and a place of incompetence and a place of bureaucracy,” Robinson said. “And as a result that hurts you. That taints you, that expertise that you’ve got in Washington.”

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Scarborough bemoaned the Republicans’ rejection of Bush, a former Florida governor and the son and brother of two former presidents, during the 2016 Republican presidential primaries.

“Jeb Bush, not the warmest guy in the world. He’s not … But Jeb is the best governor and probably the best governing force I’ve ever come across in my life,” Scarborough said. “He’s a bad candidate. Well, he was a great governor and he would have been a great president.”

Instead of adhering to Trump’s campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” Scarborough recommended that Americans “Make Politics Boring Again” and elect someone from the Washington Establishment next time. Someone more like “Morning Joe,” perhaps?

PoliZette writer Kathryn Blackhurst can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter.