The Dear Leader practices his Mussolini pose
After issuing his fatwah, SC's Senatollah roots around in his bottom drawer for an excuse:
If Lamborn's bill was mainly an act of fiscal responsibility, DeMint's is plainly a shot in the culture war.
"The country is over $13 trillion in debt, and Congress must find ways to start trimming the federal budget to cut spending," he said in a statement. "NPR and PBS get about 15 percent of their total budget through federal funding, so these programs should be able to find a way to stand on their own. With record debt and unemployment, there's simply no reason to force taxpayers to subsidize liberal programming they disagree with."
But if the political goal is to punish NPR for an excess of liberalism, defunding the entire CPB is a rather imprecise way to do it.
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