Dean smacks down Scarborough: Budget criticism 'total nonsense' David Edwards

Published: Wednesday March 25, 2009





Print This Email This Two days after joining CNBC as a contributor, former DNC chair Howard Dean tangoed with the conservative leaning host of a morning show on a sister network.



On his Morning Joe show, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough criticized President Obama's budget proposal Wednesday morning, claiming that it was similar to what the GOP did during "eight years of recklessness."



"Did we choose this? He always talks about moving this in a new direction. Fiscally, this is going down the same path that George Bush and Republicans took us down eight years," Scarborough asserted.



Dean interrupted, "Joe, that's total nonsense."



"In your heart that the spending proposed in this budget, what we are bailing out Wall Street, is unsustainable," argued Scarborough.



Dean disagreed.



"First of all, there's -- there's no federal balance sheet affected by the Geithner proposal to deal with getting the toxic assets off," explained Dean. "They very wisely put a lot of private money into that and that's guaranteed by the federal government and we are going to end up making money off that.".



"Second of all, we are not nationalizing health care," Dean added. "We are giving the American people a choice of what they want to do. Which is a lot better than not giving them the choice."



This video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast Mar. 25, 2009.









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