[MNJohnnie]

Nailed it in one. Their "Compromise" is to limit it to blogs and websites that operate over on budgets over $10,000. However, they would make you register and jump thru all sorts of hoops. Excuse me? This is VOLUNATRY association. YOU choose where to go on the web. It is in NO way similar to other forms of advertising. That this is even being debated is a sign of just how completely unfit the "Progressives" (i.e. Democrat Party) are for holding ANY political power. Use them or lose them people cause you KNOW the various pressure groups and organized activists are pushing for this. They HATE the fact you have alternative communications modes. They want to turn the clock back to were their allies the Junk Media controlled the flow of Info.

[montag813]

That this is even being debated is a sign of just how completely unfit the "Progressives" (i.e. Democrat Party) are for holding ANY political power. Use them or lose them people cause you KNOW the various pressure groups and organized activists are pushing for this. They HATE the fact you have alternative communications modes. They want to turn the clock back to were their allies the Junk Media controlled the flow of Info.

Can't agree there at all. We need to partner with "progressive" blogs like DailyKos, MyDD and such to stop this BIPARTISAN madness. It is the incumbent class which is seeking to quash the First Amendment--not one party or another.

[wildandcrazyrussian]

Just like financial transactions, having ANY monetary limit is a trap as well. What if there were a $10,000 limit on each website budget, so some enterprising group sets up 100 allied websites, each with a $9,000 budget? Then next we'd see Mc[Manchurian-Candidate]Cain issue demands to criminalize such allegedly illegal "structuring" and people would have to prove that they weren't involved in allegedly illegal "coordination".