House Republicans try to kill NPR! No surprise there!
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The Republicans hate the middle class. They are about business. Nothing else matters to them. I love NPR. The Righties hate it. Here’s the sad story my friends:
House Republicans today failed in their attempt to strip funding from National Public Radio over the Juan Williams scandal, the Hill reports. But Eric Cantor suggested the battle isn’t over: “If the Democrat majority wants to continue to ignore the will of the people that’s their prerogative, but the new Republican majority will not follow suit next year.”
The GOP put the proposal into play via its “YouCut” program, in which the public votes on spending cuts online. Winners are inserted as a procedural vote into an unrelated piece of legislation—in this case, a teleworking bill. Democrats easily blocked it and sent the overall bill on its way. The Huffington Post has more.
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Keep your republican hands off my NPR, this is not an idle threat.
I’d like to inform the conservatives that they can’t have “my” NPR. I’m excited to have finally pulled my head out of the sand enough to listen to the occasional news radio show, and goodness knows that I don’t have it in me to turn to Rush Limbaugh for current events if NPR falls by the wayside.
Mike I imagine that that the Repubs are going to do a lot of that kind of crap. The up side of that is that it will be like the rope that they hang themselves with. I think they will be so giddy over their successes that they will go overboard with it. People will then turn on them when they see programs cut that they shouldn’t cut.