[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Well, the solution is simple. The blogs just need to have a greeting page featuring a picture of a crucifix in urine. That way, it's protected speech and they can even apply for NEA funding as well!

[Dog Gone]

Uh-oh.

More details and analysis needed.

[hang 'em]

This is intolerable and unbearable. If we lose freedom of speech, the first amendment, we will have to excercise the second amendment. Welcome to the revolution.

[Fintan]

Geez, and I thought getting banned for three days was traumatic...

[Cboldt]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514564/posts?page=88#88

Check it out ...

[MikefromOhio]

my guess is that whatever happens to pass will end up being overturned by the Supreme Court. Hell even the most recent version downed anything near this so there is some room for hope here....

[inquest]

The House voted 225-182 for a bill that would have excluded blogs, e-mails and other Internet communications from regulation by the Federal Election Commission. That was 47 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed under a procedure that limited debate time and allowed no amendments.

So now the H.R. has its own little filibuster-type foolishness? This is the first I've ever heard of this rule. Too bad it was never invoked when these campaign-finance speech rationing laws were enacted in the first place.

[clee1]

No... I predict an upswing in the utilization of off-shore servers.

[Fledermaus]

Try taking away my First amendment rights and I'll excercise my Second amendment rights.

[Stew Padasso]

[CFC__VRWC]

I expect that the DUmmies are exulting over this. They know that it will only be enforced against conservatives, and that it'll be business as usual for them and MoveOn and all the other leftist groups.

[DJ MacWoW]

ping