10-15 years ago he was a good guy. We voted for him a few times. What’s happened to him?!
Bad legislation seems to have all the characteristics of a particularly virulent form of foot fungus.
Thanks for this post. Interesting.
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same with the large cuts to military, it was cloaked in a budget charade.
If not Feb, they will use Easter break or attach it to something else.
How much money is Lame Smith receiving from the RIAA and MPAA? We need to investigate those who are out front supporting this bad law and defeat it.
It’s about time he looses his chairmanship. Perhaps he and Boehner can both retire.
FULS!!
I live in this nitwit’s district and there is NO business or industry here affected by this. He has no legitimate reason to even be involved in this issue. This is simply, “give me enough money and I’ll gladly drop my pants and bend over.”
Between crap like this and the presidential primary fiasco, I despair that the Republican party has completely lost its mind. The thought of four more years of zero makes me want to puke!
Bought by Hollywood money, and apparently staying bought.
Amen.
Top Senate Democrat Harry Reid: PIPA Will Go Forward
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SGis7w1AA
Someone hook Reid up to some blood transfusions. This man has to be anemic or on massive valium.
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Looks like he's running unopposed for the Republican primary.
real estate broker Lainey Melnick (D) 27.9%Lamar S. Smith (R) 68.9%,
tech writer James Arthur Strohm (L) 3.2%
Thankfully, the two biggest villians on this bill are Dems.
Chris Dodd led the fight to destroy Glass-Steagall, which led Directly to the financial collapse of 2008. Now, he chairs the MPAA and is fighting to destroy Internet freedom. Can there be a worse or more harmful politician? Even bribed-boy Lamar Smith only just started to do harm. Dodd has been doing it for years. Ron Wyden is one of the few people blocking the rush to Nazify the Net, but corrupt Harry Reid is going to override his filibuster. The Full Pockets boys are in town, that’s for sure, with MPAA and RIAA loot pouring in their pockets.
A friend of mine in the industry told me music promoters are more crooked than boxing promoters, and cheat the hell out of artists. Although two wrongs don’t make a right, it’s an old saw that the biggest crooks are the first ones to use the law against honest people. Insurance companies are known for it.
Amazingly, this totally deadlocked Congress is unable to pass Anything of importance. Yet they are lightning fast to run off a cliff when the Bribing Boys pass the money. Congress sucks. They are the most hated bunch of corrupt fools in the nation. Even more than banksters.
The big companies that don’t support the SOPA blackout may be sorry when they find just what zealots can do. WMG jackboots YouTube all the time, taking down harmless fan vids that actually promote their songs; but they’re too stupid and lawyer-ridden to see that. Crony capitalism - if you can’t win in the market, get crooked Congress to pass a law, in behalf of big bribes and revolving-door jobs, like the one Chris Dodd just got as Chairman of the MPAA. Must be nice. Rape the people, destroy the US economy, then get a big job.
“There is no natively American criminal class except Congress.” —Mark Twain
Not much good at posting or I'd put this up, but - this morning's excuse for a newspaper here in San Antonio had an article about Smith and this joke of a bill. And for those of us yesterday that wondering about the cost of buying this Bozo's vote:
$88,000 from the TV/move/music industry
$63,500 from the computer industry
So now you know. For that hard to please person on your Christmas list next year, $150k or thereabouts will buy him his own obedient little butt-boy in Congress!
Lamar needs to be primaried.