[Clintons Are White Trash]

I'm stunned! This can't be true!

[the anti-liberal]

"I'm stunned! This can't be true!"

It can't be, because today is not a primary election day:

"transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election."

[AppyPappy]

Our government would never treat us like this. /sarcasm

[Old_Mil]

I wish it weren't true, Clintons. I wish I could say that after 6 years of Republican rule that we lived in a world where such a law wouldn't even have had a chance of being discussed in the halls of congress. Unfortunately, we've wasted a lot of time and political capital over the past 6 years and are closer today to a police state than we have ever been in our history.

[null and void]

I'm stunned! This can't be true!

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe as long as Congress is in session.

[af_vet_rr]

I'm stunned! This can't be true!

There were several threads about it over the past six months or so, both Republicans (not all) and Democrats were wanting the FEC to regulate political speech on the internet, because as Howard Dean proved during his brief Presidential run, the internet can be as effective, if not more, than print and broadcast media.

Part of the problem compounding this, both sides have pushed or setup sites, or paid people to setup sites, that are advocating for or against a position or candidate, while not explicitly saying where the funding is coming from, i.e. acting like an independent medium, or they have had people go into other sites to post information or push candidates or positions that favored the parties.

It's very convoluted, and the scary part is, many of us would not be surprised to see the federal government go after sites like FR.

There was even a speech by a prominent Republican member of Congress (forgot who, it was a while back) where he attacked political sites on the internet, saying they were undermining the election process.

Part of me thinks both parties don't like unregulated campaigning on the internet by the other party (even if it's not official, but simply independent sites like FR or maybe a blog setup by you or I that pushes a certain position or whatever).

Another part of me thinks this is another way for both parties to join together to make sure that third parties don't gain any ground. We already see this when it comes to the debates, etc.

[hissingatdemocratsisfun]

John MCcain is no american in my books.