Big Bird sleeps with the fishes?

Apparently every 10 years the GOP has to take a stab at killing PBS. Enraged by all of the unbiased reporting and counter culture fair like Sesame Street, a House committee passed a plan that would eliminate all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS's parent) within two years. Hopefully the results will be the same as 10 years ago, PBS survives and the Congressmen who try to take Big Bird off the air are defeated.

There is a New Yorker article that provides a great deal of background on the issue http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040607fa_fact2 including the following passage:

"After all, Pressler lost his Senate seat in 1996, and so did other Republicans who had tried to make an issue of public broadcasting. “They came out with a frontal attack, and what happened?” Mitchell said. “Many”—she thinks nineteen—“didn’t get reëlected.”

So it should be interesting to see where Rep. Chocola (R-himself) lands on the issues of pro or anti Big Bird. I'm guessing he'll be a good little GOP'er and vote anti-Big Bird.