Referencing your blog-below, point-by-point:
1. If FCC rules do not allow more duopolies and consolidation, stations in small to mid-sized markets won't be able to compete and local broadcasting dies.
---- wouldn't your market based Republicanism make you want the market to determine this? Let's open a discussion about which media interests benefit from this the most. This is one of those sounds-to-good-to-be-true things.....
2. Estrada was never rejected by Congress in the manner prescribed by the Constitution, but by Democrats and Republicans who think they can trash the Constitutional process if it suits them. Now, a majority of Senate means 60+. The good news, maybe that means the Senate won't do anything for a long time. Who needs new laws, they are all going to be political payoffs to the unions or AARP.
-- so a bi-partisan gang ruined your vision of getting power....? aw.......its only been that way for about 80 years! why not mention the NRA's payoffs or the rest of the right? where's the trade-marked Fair&Balanced approach? Convenient application?
3. GWB is overspending, Republicans in Congress are overspending, and everyone wants free prescription drugs. First the baby boomers force the 60s and 70s on the world, and now they're going to make us by their meds. Screw 'em.
--much as I love to disagree with you, we've got the same sheet of music here. we know we've got to get Iraq and Afghanistan right and it won't be cheap. The government grows stealthily through privitization and contracting-out. The Medicare s**t will explode in our face financially in a decade.
4. Arnold was wise to skip the debate. Nothing is revealed in debates. Politicians repeat rote answers that have no basis in their actual beliefs or plans for the state. It's a charade, and Arnold knows an act when he sees it. I hope he wins.
---- I hope to all that remains sacred about electoral democracy (if that still applies to CA) that this sad political facrce loses. Farce though he may be, he is a political force. Arnold is nontheless a no-substance joke who smilingly rides a wave of free fame-based publicity. Even conservatives like Winston wink at their so-called "values" to get a Republican in CA. I almost want to see Ahnuld win if only beause CA is such a fiscal rat-hole that no benefits a year from now by being responsible for it. Perhaps the political winner will be the party who takes the long vs. short term view......
Rock on, Ahh..nuuhld.. Work on that pronounciation, eh? .......;-)?
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