Here's an interesting government edict-

FCC pushes digital TV adoption


Gosh, that's so nice of the U.S. Government, to mandate that in a few years, TV makers will have to sell us top of the line, super-improved TV's. It's good that they're taking care of the little things like that.

Question, though. Isn't the Republican Party supposed to be all anti-regulation and free market? Wouldn't they be, say, opposed to Government edicts saying that a certain industry has to make their products a certain way. Wouldn't that mean a lack of choice? And wouldn't that mean that the costs of TV's could go up, which, according to the usual Republican logic, mean that people would buy less TV's and jobs would be lost?

Strange how that works, the government passing some ruling like that. You wouldn't happen to think that campaign money and heavy lobbying would have anything to do that, now would you?

And isn't it nice to know that while our government refuses to pass a law saying that SUV's have to have higher gas mileage sometime in the next decade, our government is mandating that we all get nice, shiny TV's?