RNC Smackdown of NBC and CNN, Mich100, and the Al Capone Solution

http://news.yahoo.com/republicans-threaten-to-shut-out-cnn-and-nbc-from-partnering-on-presidential-debates-160516122.html Can't say we didn't see this coming. Nobody likes the MSM, but the RNC is trying to pander to a angry mass audience which mostly believes the two political parties are joined at the hip. The tough talk is hollow, because in the end the GOP will offer America another Mitt Romney, or someone just like him. The problem for them is how to pull the bait and switch. For that they have handed the MSM a bit of free advertising for the four part series, on a mostly boring political figure. Their attempt to lift and separate aren't going to make this beauty contest any more palatable for the American voters who know a duck when they see it. Michigan amendment 100 made it clear the two parties are incumbents, and those who want to overturn the sycophantic pre-Patriot Act politicians who survived and thrived by going along with the Constitutional cram down. The soul of those future incumbents was shuffled off to broken promise purgatory, (not a skiing resort in Colorado). Pelosi promising to run the lobbyists out of D.C., (2006) and stop off balance sheet funding for the war in Iraq. (John Kerry promised to do Iraq better, but Bush outlasted him. Apparently when it comes to punitive wars with Islamic countries smarter isn't better.) They made their deals while they were lying to us about how they would fix things. Now it's them and us. The list of the Nays on Mich100 was entirely made up of the senior members of Congress, (bought and paid for by the companies which stand to benefit from NSA surveillance). Back in the day they had a thing called a Nielsen box, if you agreed the company would monitor everything you were watching on TV (in the interest of making better programming). Their motives haven't changed much, the NSA business is really about commerce, and corporate socialism. It's doubtful that the networks, NBC and CNN, want a bunch of junior Congressmen making scurrilous anti-government comments on live television, (unless they can package the content into a reality show, where its pretty obvious the anger is feigned and strictly for entertainment purposes.) It's also unlikely the RNC actually represents all of the GOP, or the parts of the GOP where the angry populists have an audience. (There are apparently no angry populists on the Liberal side, as they all developed Stockholm syndrome. The cure for that is to get voted out of office) So you should wonder, is the RNC really upset about the Hillary Clinton MINI SERIES, (which gives the GOP plenty of room to talk about White Water, Vince Foster, No Margin Call Cattle Futures and more recently BENGHAZI) or are they merely seizing the opportunity to throw the young lions under the bus, and preserve their own perks and power along the way. Michigan 100 was a turning point. In America the 1% manages to shout down the 99% most of the time. The practical solution is to give the networks a tax bill for airing any programming which meets the standard of political campaign advertising, which the networks usually sell at a profit. Whether the network actually collects payment from the Democratic candidate for airing the Clinton Mini Series the Democrats should receive a tax bill on the income the sale of that airtime would have generated. It's the Al Capone solution, use the tax code to sent the incumbent gangsters to jail. At the very least a discretionary tax collection policy implemented by the executive office, through the FCC, would probably cause Congress to ban the IRS altogether. Finding a President who might actually implement such a policy might be even more difficult. There are a few good young men and women ready to do this I think. Michigan 100 was a very thin majority. Maybe the 99% will win this one.