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Joe Scarborough Claims Keystone Pipeline Will Create Jobs Unlike The Payroll Tax Cut

I'm not wild about this payroll tax holiday for the same reasons Sen. Bernie Sanders is not, which is my concern that it could undermine funding the Social Security trust fund. Personally, I'd rather see them permanently lower the rate and lift the

as a poison pill they voted on in the House, would create jobs, is exactly backwards.

Conservative Media Mock Obama For Pointing Out That Payroll Tax Cuts And Unemployment Benefits Will Create Jobs:

Right-wing media figures are attacking President Obama for claiming that extending unemployment benefits and the payroll tax cut will create more jobs than the Keystone XL pipeline. In fact, economists say that unemployment benefits and payroll tax cuts will put money in people's pockets and therefore lead to job creation and economic growth, while the pipeline would create at most a few thousand temporary jobs and could actually destroy more jobs than it creates. Read on...

Lots more there in their post, so go read the rest. Scarborough got worse with yelling over Brzezinski as the show went on. There are days when I manage to catch some of Morning Joe when I think she would have the right to go to their HR department at MSNBC and complain about a hostile work environment just for having to sit next to Scarborough when he's having his days where he thinks whoever yells the loudest wins the argument. This Wednesday's show was one of them and this clip wasn't the worst of it by far.

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