house voting RIGHT NOW on Bill on Political Blogs...

[RepublicanElephant]

Political bloggers should not have their free speech rights infringed upon by campaign finance law, House lawmakers said Wednesday in debating legislation that critics said opens up a new loophole for uncontrolled campaign spending.

The House was set to vote on the bill that would exclude blogs, e-mail and other Internet communications from regulation by the Federal Election Commission.

The bill, if passed by the House and Senate, would stop the FEC from moving ahead with court-mandated rulemaking to govern political speech and campaign-related spending on the Internet.
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Opposition was led by Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Mass., who with Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn., championed the 2002 campaign finance law that banned unlimited ``soft money'' contributions that corporations, unions and individuals were making to political parties.

``This is a major unraveling of the law,'' Meehan said. At a time when Washington is again being tainted by scandal, including the CIA leak case, ``it opens up new avenues for corruption to enter the political process.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5388389,00.html

[Teaser]

1. Meehan doesn't know what he's talking about.

Blogs are simple the idea of the greek Agora extended into Cyberspace.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. So what all happened with that?

[JDPriestly]

2. People have to choose to go to a blog.

TV ads are much more intrusive. I don't even know what the Republican blogs are. Blogs shore up supporters of a cause, but they don't attract new people to a cause. They are useless as campaign outreach to anyone other than supporters. The campaign finance law is not unraveled by bloggers. It's unraveled by the solid Republican control of the commercial media.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Exactly.

[_dynamicdems]

5. Marty, Marty...

say it isn't so!