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Senate Approves Measure to Undo FCC Rules
fortheloveofjava writes "The Washington Post says here that the Senate voted 55 to 40 today to wipe out all of the Federal Communication Commission's controversial new media rules, employing a little used legislative tool for overturning agency regulations. If you signed the MOVEON.org petition, an image of part of it is visible here with sponsoring senators Senators Byron Dorgan (D-ND) and Trent Lott (R-MS)."
That's funny. New York Times and MSNBC are just two of the national far left groups. CNN is fairly moderate, and Fox is right (with strength of rightness depending on phase of moon). Overall I'd say that all right of center plus all center media groups add up to equal the left of center media groups.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
The SC selected Bush and then declared that checking on the actual vote total would cause people to question the legitimacy of their selection.
No other President (Clinton included) had to have the SC decide what was correct. Only Rutherford B. Hayes had a similarly disputed election. That's the one where the 8 Republicans in the committee gave Hayes the disputed 20 electoral college votes letting him win with 185 to Tilden's 184.
So even though both Hayes and Bush deservedly have asterisks next to their presidencies, Bush is alone in having the SC hand out a Presidency. Even Hayes didn't need that.
What Dubya makes up his mind about is of little consequence. He will do what his handlers tell him to do, no matter which way he's leaning.