Bill to Treat Bloggers as Lobbyists Defeated

Lawrence Person writes "The attempt to require political bloggers to register as lobbyists previously reported by Slashdot has been stripped out of the lobbying reform bill. The vote was 55 to 43 to defeat the provision. All 48 Republicans, as well as 7 Democrats, voted against requiring bloggers to register; all 43 votes in favor of keeping the registration provision were by Democrats."

Comments

Re:I feel a great distubance

[Broken scope]

I modded you funny then realized it was Alderan. Dammit. That was my last mod point.

Re:I feel a great distubance

[ArcherB]

I modded you funny then realized it was Alderan. Dammit. That was my last mod point.

Dammit! You're right. "Dantooine is too remote to make an effective demonstration. But don't worry. We will deal with your Rebel friends soon enough." Damn Tarkin!

Sorry to make you cough up your mod point, but "What's in a name? That which we call a Alderan by another name would explode as sweet"

Re:Democrats

[DAldredge]

I wasn't aware that "our side" was the Democrats. Did I miss the memo?

Re:Can't resist... Agreeing with republicans...

[dangitman]

At least conservatives explain why they think you're wrong. Liberals spit and call you a Nazi.

That's head-spinningly ironic, given liberals' tendency to explain their position at length, and conservatives' tendency to use ad hominem in place of debate, and make their srguments up out of thin air. See your post that I am replying to as an example of such non-factual argument.