Breaking: House Defunds Corporation for Public Broadcasting
The House of Representatives on Saturday voted to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
According to UPI, by a party line vote of 235 to 189, the House passed a stopgap measure that would cut $61 billion from the 2011 budget:
The government would shut down March 4 without the funding bill, called a continuing resolution, which passed 235-189 after a marathon legislative session that ended in the early hours Saturday.
The bill cuts $61 billion in spending from the current budget.
Not one Democrat voted for the bill.
As the Ground Report noted moments ago:
On Saturday, the House passed the budget bill H.R. 1, a bill that would defund public media and prevent the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from enforcing its new net neutrality rules by withholding funding. In total, the bill, which passed by a 235 to 189 vote, cuts 61.5 billion dollars from the budget. It now heads to the Senate.
In its current form, the bill will withdraw any obligation on the part of Congress to fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which dolls out public media funds, beyond 2012. Currently, the CPB receives around $420 million, or $1.40 cents per capita from the federal government.
CPB provides funding for both NPR and PBS.
As this is part of a larger bill designed to prevent the shutdown of the government next month, it will be very interesting to see what happens when it goes to the Senate.
If Democrats there defeat it as is expected, this will create quite a showdown between President Obama and the House.
Stay tuned.
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There'll be a run on Home Depot and Lowes today
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:25pm.
as liberals everywhere go out to buy duct tape.
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You're not the first one to make that observation today
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:29pm.
LOL, Jon Torlin posted the same thing on the "House Votes to Defund IPCC" thread.
Chalk one up for motherbelt, she wins the prize today.
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There are too many NB threads
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:03pm.
I can't seem to keep up with all of them. Good for Jon.
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“Didn't win the Medal of Honor? Didn't even serve? Then lie about it. We'll support you." — 9th Circuit Court
The Home Depot in Greenville,
Submitted by ricklail on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 3:35pm.
The Home Depot in Greenville, NC is closing its doors. Everything half price. Should go there.
That says it all about Obama's Economy
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:30pm.
I never heard of a Home Depot closing before.
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Good!!!! Keep it up!!! We're
Submitted by killa37 on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:33pm.
Good!!!! Keep it up!!! We're sick and tired of paying for this kind of crap.............these guys and these outfits can continue to do what they've been doing - I'm a free market kind of guy - but they damn well can figure out a way to stay in business for themselves. And if they can't, tough luck.............welcome to OUR world!!! I don't see anybody keeping US afloat..............
WOO-HOO!! A HAT TRICK!!
Submitted by motherbelt on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:36pm.
<throws hat on floor of House>
Word of the day.... DEFUND
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:39pm.
Republicans are on a tear, this week ...remember Republicans it's a marathon not a sprint.
March 15th. Corporate taxes are due... have a DEFUND push.
April 15 th Personal and sole proprietorship, taxes are due... have a DEFUND push..
You Didn't Build That.
Correction
Submitted by BuffNBone on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 9:27am.
This year 2010 federal taxes are due on 4/18/2011 because of Emancipation Day observances in the District of Columbia. Check about your individual states because most are due on the 15th.
State of Hawaii due on the 20 th.of April
Submitted by upcountrywater on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 12:56pm.
I pay the taxes (always before due date), and file extensions.
So this year it's April 18... all that means is that the over paid tax refund will be refunded at a later date...All for Emancipation Day, what!!! lol crock...
You Didn't Build That.
There Will Be Wailing And Gnashing of Teeth
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:44pm.
NPR has every right to exist and present it's liberal points of view, but it is not a sacred cow. Government funding for broadcasting that competes with the free market counterparts was always wrong and we can't afford it. However, The Salon, Huffington Post, The Nation etc. will certainly be outraged and turn the volume up on the hyperbole to defend the extortion of the taxpayer.
You know what they'll do though
Submitted by ThisnThat on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:06pm.
I agree -- they have a right to exist and spew their unchecked lied.
But the left will advertise this as "Republicans kill PBS". When the truth is -- all the Republicans did was to make sure it stops using taxpayer funds. If PBS has an audience -- that audience can support it though other means, rather than with confiscated money.
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→ Can't wait, TNT
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:11pm.
That National Lampoon cartoon with the special on frog legs and Kermit rolling himself out on a cripple cart comes to mind.
Cartoon for Cool Arrow
Submitted by Boil It Down on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:32pm.
Big Bird on a spit with the 'fat cat' republican in a bar-b-que apron. I probably shouldn't be giving them ideas.
The plain fact is that if there were a sizable market for NPR's programming, they'd be rolling in money without a need for a subsidy. So, if they can't sell it, we're supposed to be forced to buy it anyway?
It will have been their villainy that did them in...
Submitted by Thalpy on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 9:59am.
As a shill for Leftists everywhere, PBS deserves to have to make it on their own.
It's about DANG time. If
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:45pm.
It's about DANG time.
If the liberal left is sooooooo sure that NPR is so desperately needed, and that America just can't live without it, then let them get George Soros or one of their other bigwigs to foot the bill and keep these losers on the air. The time is LONG gone when taxpayers should be forced to pay for liberal leftist programming, abortions, or any other leftist agenda boondoggle.
It'll be a laugh watching Daniel Shore working on his resume. "Work Experience: Spent 20 years hating the GOP and pimping Democrats. No other worthwhile skills."
I won't miss them one bit. I gave up on them ages ago when they started pimping Democrats and pushing global warming down my throat.
Slyrr, Daniel Schorr died
Submitted by JoeBob on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:30pm.
Slyrr,
Daniel Schorr died July 23, 2010, at the age of 93. He's got a different set of problems now.
See? That's about how much
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 6:36pm.
See? That's about how much use I've had for NPR over the last few years. I've lived without them perfectly well to the point that I didn't even know their snarkiest anti-republican 'personality' was dead.
If I can live without them, so can the rest of the country. Their brand of commentary will never be missed. Cap it off with them firing any employee who dares to speak anything that might be interpreted as conservative, and they deserve their fate.
Defunded ?
Submitted by Chandran on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:45pm.
YESSSSSSSS !!!!!!!!!!!!
continuing resolution
Submitted by truckinmann on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:50pm.
$61 billion in cuts from the 2011 budget... Seems to me with the projected deficit being $1.65 trillion dollars, that's about $1.6 trillion dollars short of a balanced budget! ( Actually $1.589 trillion dollars to be fair) and they say this paltry sum will cause peoples lives to be upset and changed.... Well quit relying on government for your livelyhood. We can't afford this crap! Shutting the government down would be a good thing!
keep the doggies rolling
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:51pm.
Wow! The Republicans haven't merely gored a sacred cow they're rounding up the whole herd and setting up a butcher shop.
You know what us Tea Partiers
Submitted by Free Stinker on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 2:55pm.
You know what us Tea Partiers call this ?
A pretty good start.
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Start panhandling, Elmo
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 3:05pm.
Keep it up, gang!
Elmo & Cookie Monster
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 3:10pm.
Made a guest appearance on Top Chef last week.
Hope they god paid.
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LOL
Submitted by MidAmerica on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 3:15pm.
Blonde, have you got a cold? You sound like your nose is stuffed up. : )
I might be getting one
Submitted by Blonde on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:35pm.
Seriously, I've got that itchy sore throat thing going on today. Ew.
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LOL. Did they get "cut" there, too?
Submitted by SickofLibs on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:44pm.
.
Nice, but . . . .
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 3:27pm.
The Democrats in the Senate will yawn and stomp it down. And the uninformed won't even notice.
Where's Juan Williams?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:08pm.
Schadenfreude!!!
If NPR can be funded by the
Submitted by Van Halen on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:12pm.
If NPR can be funded by the taxpayer, then FoxNews can be funded by the taxpayer.
Exactly.
Submitted by Tenebrous on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 8:47am.
This is something we should repeat every single time a liberal brings up funding NPR.
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It was rather amusing yesterday afternoon...
Submitted by Prester John on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:25pm.
......listening to the Blue Grass music channel on WAMU (Public Broadcasting out of American University in DC) and putting up with the afternoon host who was practically apoplectic begging people to contribute since "it didn't look too good in Congress" i.e. WAMU was going to lose $1,000,000 in tax payer funding. I thought he was going to either break down and cry and/or have a heart attack on the air.
In any event since I enjoy the music I ponied up a contribution--you provide what the market wants and you get paid for it, right?
What a concept.
America's Best Week In Years
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 4:28pm.
Fiscal realist Republicans cast disenfectant sunlight on the irresponsible moonbat Leftists in a battle for the survival of the Republic in the House.
(1) Director, White House Office of Health Reform - Nancy-Ann DeParle
(2) Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change - Carol Browner
(3) Special Envoy for Climate Change - Todd Stern
(4) Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Council on Environmental Quality - Was Van Jones, now?? Nancy Sutley is Chair of CEQ of which the Special Advisor is subordinate.
(5) Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury assigned to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry and Senior Counselor for Manufacturing Policy - Ron A. Bloom.
(6) White House Director of Urban Affairs - Was Adolfo Carrion, Jr, but stepped down. Currently??
(7) Special Envoy to oversee the closure of the Detention Center at Guantanamo Bay - Danny Fried
(8) Special Master for TARP Executive Compensation, Department of the Treasury - Kenneth Feinberg
(9) Associate General Counsel and Chief Diversity Officer, Federal Communications Commission - Mark Lloyd
Lots more amendments passed in the House this week per the Washington (com)Post.
Yes, it's almost morning again in America!
Great! and it was a
Submitted by JAJT on Sat, 02/19/2011 - 7:39pm.
Great! and it was a straight line party vote to get this defunded. what are those poor Democrats going to do without Big Bird helping them sell their socialist policies....
Can't wait to see what next week brings...
Except I think we know what's going to happen.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Sun, 02/20/2011 - 1:30pm.
If the senate rejects this or Obama vetos it, the gov't will get shut down, and the MSM will blame the GOP. I would be genuinely surprised if Reid or Obama didn't try to kill this bill. Of course, there is the hope that the public will side with the GOP and blame Obama and Reid if the gov't does shut down, but we all know full well the MSM is going to outright lie and support the Dems if that happens.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.