Yes sir! Thank you for your reply. I “think” here is an analogy of the NPR/pubbie house majority situation.
Let’s say NPR is an 18 wheel trucker and he is rolling down I-10 in San Diego headed for Miami and he is an independent operator paying for his own expenses and MUST get paid at the end of the line in Miami.
So, along about Ft. Stockton, he get’s an email on his I-phone from his wife that says “uh, Harry, the “board of directors” for that company your delivering that load to in Miami has just voted to put that company in Bankruptcy!”
That’s it! That’s where NPR is! They can still roll for a while until their money runs out and in the meantime they can be thinking their NEW situation over, or, like Harry, they can simply go find someone else to sell their/his load of bullshit to, IF THEY CAN. Whatever!..........the chances of them EVER over-coming that “board of directors” vote in todays world are slim to none!
My analogy may be lame or weak, but NPR has just been slapped down good, after decades of trying by many (Gingrich in the nineties comes to mind), and their chances of continuing to be funded by “the board of directors” are slim to none.
That is true, and a good thing.
It is also possible that NPR may be removed from future CR's and have no previously built in funding, and would have to continue on sponsorships and gifts.
In Obamacare the original bill carried large funding appropriations, likely put in in anticipation of public resistance and the election of a majority of Republicans. These appropriations may have been placed improperly but it is impossible to prove as none of the bills were read or recorded before the votes so the orign of the funding (must be House) can not be proved.
A normal Republican House budget bill now, without appropriations for Obamacare, will not pull the funding and spending authorizations in the original bill, they can still spend till that more than a trillion dollars is gone enforcing Obamacare. That is the problem, and the Rat trick I need to illustrate.
NPR may be off the public dole, but you always have to watch for the built in Rat trick and destroy it.