Liberal Media

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March 18
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There are an awful lot of people out in Mountain Home, Arkansas and Killeen, Texas who listen to NPR. NPR listeners don’t all live on the lower East Side of Manhattan or in Malibu. And the ones who would really suffer if the Republicans were successful are, as Patrick Butler pointed out, from small town America where there aren’t as many donors to fuel those pledge-drives.

The Republican ploy to defund NPR may be just Jim Dandy with their Fox News-watching base. But with swing voters — not so much. It will be one more tactic that blows up — right in their faces.

Oh, about those jobs that the voters wanted last November. One more week has passed without the Republicans lifting a finger to create one job in America. Instead they busied themselves passing legislation to destroy several thousand more broadcasting jobs at the NPR affiliate near you.

 Why the Republicans hate NPR
March 10
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“ America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts. President James Madison
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January 23
“He has consistantly [sic] appointed Anti-Christians to Federal office: Upholds the Supreme Court in its Anti-Christian rulings.”

“He has consistantly [sic] appointed Anti-Christians to Federal office: Upholds the Supreme Court in its Anti-Christian rulings.”

January 22
“The men of New Jersey voted to Protect their Women from Politics, to Maintain the Family as the Unit of the State.”

“The men of New Jersey voted to Protect their Women from Politics, to Maintain the Family as the Unit of the State.”

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Even before the museum opened in October, “Go Fish” had become shorthand in state political circles for wasteful spending. Republicans and Democrats alike groaned over $1.6 million a year in bond payments and operating costs. And even supporters concede that the museum would never have gotten financed in 2007 if the legislature knew where the economy was headed. “Hindsight is 20/20, but we should have seen this one coming,” said State Senator George Hooks, an Americus Democrat on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee. With a large state deficit looming, Go Fish has become a cautionary tale about the long-term ramifications of prerecession decisions. The state must make bond payments for the museum for the next 16 years. Meanwhile, cuts are being proposed to the state’s college scholarship program, health care and the prison system. New Fishing Museum Becomes Symbol of Waste in Georgia

Even before the museum opened in October, “Go Fish” had become shorthand in state political circles for wasteful spending. Republicans and Democrats alike groaned over $1.6 million a year in bond payments and operating costs. And even supporters concede that the museum would never have gotten financed in 2007 if the legislature knew where the economy was headed.

“Hindsight is 20/20, but we should have seen this one coming,” said State Senator George Hooks, an Americus Democrat on the budget-writing Appropriations Committee.

With a large state deficit looming, Go Fish has become a cautionary tale about the long-term ramifications of prerecession decisions. The state must make bond payments for the museum for the next 16 years. Meanwhile, cuts are being proposed to the state’s college scholarship program, health care and the prison system.

New Fishing Museum Becomes Symbol of Waste in Georgia