The GOP Declares War On Tote Bags

While Republicans continue to complain that President Obama is out of touch for filling out his March Madness bracket, House Republicans held an emergency meeting to confront what they see as the gravest threat to America right now:

National Public Radio.

House Republicans are holding an emergency meeting of the Rules Committee on Wednesday to take up legislation that would block funding to NPR in the wake of James O'Keefe's hidden camera prank on the news organization.

The meeting will examine HR 1076, introduced by Republican congressman and NPR-nemesis Doug Lamborn of Colorado, which would bar the government from providing any funding to NPR and its affiliate stations. The House already passed an amendment to its Continuing Resolution funding the government through September that would defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which supports both NPR and PBS, but the Senate defeated the bill and the latest CR only cuts $50 million in scheduled increases to NPR's funding that the White House had already cut from its own budget proposal.

According to a spokeswoman for Lamborn, Catherine Mortensen, the new standalone bill would only target NPR. And unlike the CR amendment would have defunded public broadcasting through the 2011 fiscal year, HR 1076 would permanently prohibit all federal funding to NPR and affiliate stations. 

Mortensen added that Lamborn "will definitely" seek to include an additional amendment blocking NPR funding through 2011 in any final deal with Senate Democrats on a 2011 continuing resolution. 

So the Republicans are willing to shut the government down over permanently eliminating NPR funding, specifically.  It's their way or everyone in the country suffers.

All because an employee told the truth.  This is what Republicans do to anyone who gets in the way of that whole "reality has a liberal bias" thing, they must be eliminated in order to be drowned out by FOX News.

Oh, hey, guys...where's the jobs?