The opposite of progress? Congress!
So, the Congress is now looking to delay the switchover to digital TV.
Wow. Just wow.
Congress decided we all (even my 95-year-old grandmother) needed digital TV. Then they set aside money to partially pay for the changeover.
Now, the program to offset the cost for digital converter boxes is out of money, and the Congress is planning to delay the switchover.
Who would have imagined that Congress could have created a huge, unworkable, burdensome process … then screwed it up even worse?
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January 28th, 2009 at 8:24 am
This is why Macs fell by the wayside Basil!
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/apple_introduces_revolutionary
January 28th, 2009 at 9:13 am
The delay benefits a generous DNC and Obama donor who happens to be a member of the Obama transition team.
http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/01/all_politics_is_interest_group.php
What an unbelievable coincidence.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:46 am
This was originally supposed to implemented in 2006…
It’s time for the crowd of warriors from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to shout: “Get on with it!!!”
January 28th, 2009 at 11:18 am
After the mess they made with low-flush toilets, you expected success with something as complicated as television?
Maybe there will be a new industry of smuggling black-market analog TV signals across the borders from Canada and Mexico, too.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Yeah, because TV is a requirement; well for Liberals it is: how else will they know what to think?
Hand to your Deity of Choice, I was just thinking about this on the way to WORK this morning: whenever any or all of my 3 TVs break, I will not replace any of them. I grew 5 new brain cells just making that decision.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Yeah, these are just the right guys to be running a nationalized health care
January 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
er, Who would not have imagined……….
January 28th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
They gave the DTV transition 4 years and now more, but they gave small businesses just 6 months to adjust to the new CPSIA lead standards for children’s products. When we complained they just told us to suck it up and eat the costs, which are enough to put 70% of the children’s product producers out of business.
January 28th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Broadcast TV is dying anyway. Therefore, let’s keep it going at public expense and thoroughly muck it up with Congressional subsidies and bailouts, too.
January 28th, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Lead standards, toilets, lightbulbs, television…
When does the Los Angeles Lightbulb Party start, when we kick off the revolution by dumping lightbulbs in LA harbor?
Or will the soccer moms and retirees put up with anything the congress does, no matter how outlandish and intrusive?
January 28th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
And don’t forget that TV stations now have to bear the extra costs of broadcasting in both analog AND digital for another 4 months. Just what those businesses need in hard economic times.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
After a year+ long promotion of invading reminders across the top of our screens telling us to be ready by Feb 09, they pull this shit. Heh, figures. Not that it affects me, but this is so friggin typical.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
One of those promos says (via an overly cheery bimbo voice), “not only is digital TV better, it’s the law!”.
Tell me….how does one ‘break’ that law?
January 30th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
John Adams once said;
“I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace; that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a Congress!”