Posted on 03/17/2011 9:28:16 AM PDT by xtinct
The House just voted 236-181 to remove federal funding for National Public Radio via the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Way to go. This was my vote on YouCut.
I feel my voice has been heard. How freaking refreshing.
National PUBIC Radio has a nice smell...
There was some Democrat congresscritter bleating that “this will never pass the Senate.”
Sorry. Wrong.
The correct construction is “Public broadcasting funding will never pass the House.”
If the Senate Democrats, or Obama, want to shut down the government to preserve the small fraction of the public broadcasting budget which federal funding represents, then they should go for it.
Play time is over. Time to get serious.
The phrase “fiddling while Rome burns” and similar constructions should get a lot of Republican repetition.
I think that public broadcasting has burned one or two too many bridges at this point. Their federal funding is gone. And they only have themselves to blame.
And, if the Republicans in the House don’t hold fast on this one issue, then it’s definitely Third Party time. We need to make sure the Republicans know that this is not a threat—it’s a promise.
NPR gets just a small amount of its funding directly from the feds. The bulk of its funding comes indirectly, like member station fees using money from CPB, grants from US govt agencies, and money from companies that do business with the government.
It's CPB that needs to be de-funded.
Doesn’t go far enough. Defund PBS as well.
Absolutely right, of course. Political theater by the nancy boys who just voted to support the Dems in their disgraceful spending. No, house leadership, this does not make you conservative. We are not stupid. Pass a budget bill with drastic spending cuts, including defunding Obamacare, and let the Dems do what they want.
Frankly, this vote against NPR, that you know won't get signed into law, after yesterdays cave to the progressives, make you all look like fools.
Good
“The senate has to pass it....and it won’t. And even if it did, the stain will veto it.”
All budgeting starts in the house. If the house doesn’t fund it, they don’t get it.
Have we all forgotten how basic civics classes work?
So, big deal, the Senate doesn’t pass it. NPR still gets NO MONEY anyway.
The House GOP leadership is playing you. Just like with defunding ObamaCare this is not attached to something else and will get no action by the Senate. It is not attached to the budget or the CR.
“We tried” is old and lame.
I do not know why people keep falling for these gimmicks
“Anbyone have suggestions for a new name?”
NATIONAL SOROS RADIO....
This is all for show. They could just stop funding it in the House and magic, NO MONEY FOR NPR.
Sorry, it got through the House in the CR. It will be funded in the next CR too. The House GOP leadership is not going to get serious about defunding anything.
Exactly. Hugh Hewitt had a congress critter caught redhanded, trying to get credit for this bill. HH pointed out that they all knew it would fail in this standalone form, but they were doing it for show because they weren’t playing hardall by including such things in the continuing resolution bill.
This is window dressing rather than real action.
Now they’re Non-Parasitic Radio!
MPN—Marxist Propagana Network.
One thing that the left had been pusing as a tool to silence Rush, was FCC requirement of a minimum amount of local content on the radio.
Uff da...
next is the place where they kill babies and those groups which get paid to protest or groups like homosexual groups which in MA get tax $’s
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