Posted by
flagwaver on Thursday, January 18, 2007 7:36:47 PM
Hey fellow Hall members, I bet you didn't know it but you are talking to a big time lobbyist! Yup, that's right...little old Flagwaver has hit the political BIG TIME!!!
See, according to Nancy Pelosi I should be treated like a K Street lobbyist because I have a politcal blog that has more than 50 readers. That little gem is in the proposed legislation that Jay Sekulow wrote about in a Townhall article recently. His take was on the outrage of the G trying to claim that any church that met a spending threshold for broadcasting and had an expressed view on political matters is to be treated as a grassroots lobbying group. For many, when it was churches that seemed to be the target, there was no problem with that. Hey, if churches wanted to take on political topics, then they should be treated as lobbyists, right?
But I bet no one stopped to think that the Democrats would use that same legislation to come after bloggers, did they? Well you should have, because we all know how much the left hates free speech; speech is only free when it agrees with their point of view! Now they have me in their sights, and Cynewulf, BrianR, Celticdragon, and many others just like us simply because we have blog readerships over 50 people and espouse political views. If the Democrats get their way, we will have to register as lobbyists or face fines and monetary penalties. Anyone besides me feeling that chill wind blowing?
Folks, we are starting to reap what we sowed in the last election. When we abandoned our Party because of unhappiness with the actions of some Party members in D.C. we allowed the Democrats to take power. Now we are seeing just the type of devilment the Dems will get into when given power to play with.
So congrats to all of my blogging friends, as we have hit the big time together. Now just hope that our voices aren't silenced or regulated because of a fit of pique we had in November.
Ya know, being BIG TIME ain't all it's cracked up to be!