Republican Push To Defund NPR Fails

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Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- The Republican campaign to take away all federal funding from National Public Radio (NPR) was over before it began, with GOP lawmakers' procedural trick to force a vote on the issue failing on Thursday. It was the first GOP-ordered House vote since the election.

The proposal to defund NPR was the latest winning item on the Republicans' gimmicky YouCut site, which allows the public to pick the cuts they would like to see receive an up-or-down vote on the House floor. In order to get these votes, they try to make a procedural vote on an unrelated piece of legislation the vote on the YouCut item.

"This week's winning YouCut proposal is sponsored by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), and would terminate all taxpayer funding of National Public Radio (NPR), saving taxpayers potentially tens of millions of -- perhaps even over a hundred million -- dollars," read a release from Rep. Eric Cantor's (R-Va.) office. "Implementing this initiative would signal that the days of bailing out irresponsible decision-makers at taxpayers' expense are over.

Democrats easily scuttled the GOP maneuver on Thursday, voting 239-171 to close debate on the underlying measure and move on, without voting on the NPR proposal.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/18/republican-defund-npr-fails_n_785453.html

[sakabatou]

1. Ha ha

[CatholicEdHead]

2. Expect them to try again in the new year

when the new House is seated.

[CBHagman]

5. Don't you know it!

They do this stuff on a regular basis. Of course even if they passed something, it would still likely die in the Senate.

[Lasher]

3. Hooray! Best news I've heard all day.

They'll try next year but we'll still have a majority (and the filibuster if it comes to that) in the Senate.

[happygoluckytoyou]

4. you cant spell REPUBLICAN without PUKE (ok... you can... but why?)

[RZM]

11. I've never tried that before. I see a few more interesting ones:

'Rube'
'Caper'
'Burp'
'Lube'
'Bane'

[pattmarty]

6. Big fucking deal. NPR and PBS have been "castrated" for some time anyway........

.........If you want to watch something that is somewhat informative (for Americans at least) try FSTV, CNNI, LINK and BBC. Oh, another good one is Al Jazeera on both FSTV and LINK I believe. Look what happened the other day with the Tina Fey thing where PBS effectively censored parts of her speech.

[Kolesar]

10. Cleveland public radio is excellent ... eom

[pattmarty]

15. And, when I left Chgo in 2001 WTTW the PBS station was still good too.........

...........There are still some, but if you notice on PBS anyway, the prominent "national" type of programs are not at all controversial anymore.

[Kucinich Feingold]

7. Of course the Republicans want to fix PBS and NPR.

They wish everything was like Fox News and talk radio shows such as Rush, Ann Coulter, and Michael Savage.

[R Merm]

8. This was based on the Repugs you cut site

http://republicanwhip.house.gov/YouCut/

I went and requested that they cut health care for congress, any other ideas

[Borchkins]

9. YouCut

I suggested they cut all Republican congressional staff.

[mercuryblues]

12. I

Suggested the end their health insurace coverage.

[groundloop]

13. Other ideas ..... how about unnecessary military spending, how about...

how about getting rid of tax breaks for the ultra rich
how about.....oh hell, everyone here knows what needs to happen

[Kucinich Feingold]

14. .

I would rather cut military spending before we do anything about NPR/PBS.

[Thor_MN]

16. Eric Cantor always looks like he is within seconds of getting his ass kicked on the playground

[titaniumsalute]

17. NPR should tell Congress F-U

and de-fund themselves. There are some people who would rallya round the public radio people and probably pony up the difference.

[Mika]

18. Someone's got to pay Mara Liasson

in addition to faux

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