Joe brings the PWN'age hammer down on Bill O'RLY.

[luciazephyr]

Oh my god...

Joe Scarborough, when did you become so fucking awesome?!?!

Seriously, omg. Bill O'Reilly, barely an hour ago, took on MSNBC and Keith in particular for "hating Bush and loving Saddam". Not kidding here. So, Joe Scarborough is now taking Bill-O to fucking task for it. GO, BABY, GO!

*applaudes*

Though, ya know, if Keith hadn't been in the middle of his own show at the time, he'd have been doing the same. That's obvious. But the fact that Joe stood up and fought back makes me so proud.

Dear Mr. Scarborough,

I did not realize you rocked so hard. You watched the Saddam video and dared to admit that Saddam was the most dignified man in the room? You're right and you're gonna pay for saying that. FOX News will take that out of context, you know they will. But you said it anyway, you stood up for your network and for a man's whose political views are directly opposed to yours.
You are the best Republican ever. I kinda love you.

Hugs and kisses,
Lucy, your average "liberal progressive secular fag"

So, I'm gonna have to stop turning off MSNBC after Keith now, I figure.

-Luce

ETA: Have sent a request to Anderson's show about the hubbub over the President wanting the line-veto thing. What I wrote:

The term "one-line veto" has been flying around all day on the news channels and all the anchors seem to be making a big deal of it. It's a bit annoying because the concept has yet to be fully explained. The President can essentially cut unwanted lines out of a bill and then pass it? Shouldn't he need to run the revised version of the bill pass Congress again? Otherwise, what would stop the President from, say approving a new weapon for the military but cutting out a requirement for special training for the new weapondry? Okay, maybe that's an impossible situation, but hopefully you'll get the point.

If the topic comes up on 360 tonight, I'd greatly appreciate it if Anderson actually, ya know, explained it.

MEBBE I WILL BE ON AC360 NOW?!?!

Comments

[scrunchy.livejournal.com]

Hee, ok.

"OH, JOE ♥ "

He deserves it. Good boy.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Joe has earned a Flanigan-squee? Wow. *claps*

[fofomazuzu.livejournal.com]

OMG O'Rielly, that bastard, he needs to go spin-free zone himself off air for good before Keith gets him or he is screwed with a passion.

[superguard9.livejournal.com]

Pardon me for lurking, I was bored and reading friends of friends pages.

Anyway, I would just like to give a hearty thumbs-up for showing it's possible for a liberal to write something positive about Joey Scars. If you continue to watch his show, you'll find that he is definitely a conservative, but Scars is certainly not a lapdog to the administration, or even his own party.

And he does a lot of segments about the cultural/social/political impact of TDS.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

Oh, lurking is fun! How else would we find new friends!

He seems kinda cool. And, god, I know of the crush he has on Stephen Colbert. It's painfully obvious and so cute. Stephen even ended a show: "That's the Colbert Report, the number one place to find clips of me, except Scarborough County." So, heh. And the only reason I haven't been watching Joe is that I see how loud and mean his guests get, then I see guests on Anderson and just think that Andy's got more control over them. *luvs on Andy*

[zomboid.livejournal.com]

I'm too lazy to type up my own explanation of how the line item veto works, but here's the gist of it from the trusty wikipedia.

1. Congress passed a piece of spending/tax legislation.
2. The President signed the bill, as a whole, but then lined out the specific items he opposed.
3. The President returned the lined-out items to Congress, which by a simple majority either approved or disapproved.
4. If it disapproved, Congress sent a "bill of disapproval" containing the items back to the President.
5. The President could then veto the disapproval bill; it then required a two-thirds majority in Congress to override his.

The line-item veto power is a relatively new executive power, passed by Bill Clinton in 1996 to give the executive branch more power. The executive branch has been steadily gaining more power since the beginning of the nation, which can be attributed to the fact that the powers of the president is not explicitly outlined in the Constitution, unlike the legislative branch. Although we can really credit FDR and his whole 100 Day Plan to battle the Great Depression in the 1930's as the reason why the executive branch is as powerful as it is today, that and the fact that the legislative branch have been slowly giving powers to the president during times of crisis.

Sorry for the political science lesson, but I thought you might want an explanation for it.

The line-item veto is also highly controversial, and the both times that it has been used has led to court cases in the supreme court, so I doubt Bush would use it since someone is probably going to challenge it.

[lucia-tanaka.livejournal.com]

And the Wiki page I went to didn't explain it that well. Grr.


Thank you, though. I'm glad that the Congress can still bitchslap the President down. *still hopes Andy explains it on his show 'cause, omg, ANDY!*