Joe Scarborough is a great messenger for the idea that you can’t just be the party of “No!”

You’ve got to find things to say yes to.

It's good advice for his hometown, too, where we excel at No, while struggling with the Yes.

We can whip together a Facebook Page, or a change.org petition in an afternoon to tell you what we don’t want. In the last several months everything from the city’s ill-advised “blanket ban” to a Dollar General store on Summit Boulevard to a probation office near North Hill to the film crew for “Party Down South” has been overturned, rejected or run out of town.

Those things are easy to be against.

What we need to work on is mustering the same enthusiasm for things to say yes to.