{"id":1217,"date":"2010-06-25T22:34:21","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-06-25T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T03:36:55","slug":"the-nra-cops-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/the-nra-cops-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The NRA Cops Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat&#8217;s dominance in congress is threatened by thousands of small political organizations encouraging people to vote against incumbents.\u00c2\u00a0 Dems are desperate to silence them, so on Thursday the house passed a first-amendment-shredding law called The DISCLOSE act, which stands for Democratic Incumbent Safety Contract Locking Out Simply Everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The law is designed to make it nearly impossible for political organizations to speak out by hobbling them with draconian regulations.\u00c2\u00a0 They will have to submit lists of their donors to Big Brother.\u00c2\u00a0 Any broadcast ads must list their five biggest contributors, which eliminates the possibility of an economical 15 second radio ad, as well as giving pause to contributors who don&#8217;t want their name blasted everywhere.\u00c2\u00a0 And ridiculous amounts of paperwork are included, of course.<\/p>\n<p>The NRA spoke about against it, so the Democrats carved out an exemption for them.\u00c2\u00a0 Once they received their exemption, they bravely shut up and are now refusing to take a stand.\u00c2\u00a0 Since <em>they&#8217;re<\/em> protected from it they no longer give a damn.<\/p>\n<p>Other groups complained about the NRA&#8217;s special treatment, so the Dems rewrote the NRA exception to cover other very large organizations.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s only the little guys who will get screwed.<\/p>\n<p>This is the NRAs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nraila.org\/News\/Read\/NewsReleases.aspx?ID=13920\">excuse<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Lame, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Nice move, you gutless wonders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democrat&#8217;s dominance in congress is threatened by thousands of small political organizations encouraging people to vote against incumbents.\u00c2\u00a0 Dems are desperate to silence them, so on Thursday the house passed a first-amendment-shredding law called The DISCLOSE act, which stands for Democratic Incumbent Safety Contract Locking Out Simply Everyone. The law is designed to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}