Thread: Bushco FCC once again on the wrong side of things

Historic Senate Vote Rejects FCC’s Rules

In a near-unanimous voice vote tonight, the Senate passed a “resolution of disapproval� that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits.

It was your dedication that made this Senae win possible. Last December, the FCC voted to remove the “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership� ban that prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major daily newspaper in the same market. The resolution of disapproval (Senate Joint Resolution 28), introduced by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), would nullify the FCC’s new rules if passed by Congress and signed by the president. The House version of the resolution was introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) in March.
Today, the Bush administration issued a statement opposing the resolution and threatening to veto it. The statement called the FCC’s new rules the product of “extensive public comment and consultation� but failed to mention that only 1 percent of public comments supported the administration’s position.
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Finally it looks as if the desire of the neocons to make our media into a little more then a monopolistic echo chamber is being fought by congress and it seems that even his own party is telling him to fuck off! Wow!

Excellent!

BushCo has gone beyond "lame duck" status.

Now, they're considered an active threat to the People of othe United States, and they're not gettin' another damn thing they want. Not one. The only reason they'd get anything, is in the way of helpin' 'em get a good swift kick in the pants on their way out the door.

Yep, that rotten bastid Bush just doesn't know when to stop.....

Well, fortunately, Congtress seems to be growing some 'nads again.

That was great - did you hear Biden yesterday? He called it [B]exactly[/U] right - and not only that he said it the same way I would have said it - callin' a spade a spade, in no uncertain terms!!!

I love it - a sitting US Senator calls the President's words "bullshit"!!!

BIG THUMBS UP to Senator Joe Biden!!!