Eric Cantor's Stance on Defunding NPR isn't Based on a Constitutional Argument: Juan Williams is Not the Reason NPR Should be Defunded, Mr. Cantor

Remember how Republicans told Americans in their Pledge to America they were going to start fighting for the Constitution. Check out Eric Cantor's attempt to defund National Public Radio.

Yesterday, the Republicans rallied to push a vote to defund NPR. Democrats quickly pushed their idea in the trash can. While the Republicans were right in their actions, since the federal government has no constitutional authority to fund a national radio, listen to Young Gun Eric Cantor who identifies himself with the Tea Party and was part of this Republican Pledge to America who promised they would follow the Constitution.

In a joint statement, Cantor listed the reason he supported defunding NPR.

"When NPR executives made the decision to unfairly terminate Juan Williams and to then disparage him afterward, the bias of their organization was exposed," House Minority Whip Eric Cantor and Doug Lamborn, who authored a bill this year to defund NPR's parent company, said in a joint statement Wednesday.

Doesn't the First Amendment give the right to any press form to provide a bias? It does. Like it or not.

Cantor's argument for defunding the organization not only reminds of the Fairness Doctrine, it is not Constitutionally based. All Cantor had to say is something similar to what James Madison said when Congress was looking to fund some refugees when Madison served in Congress.

"I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."

Mr. Cantor, If you are serious about following the Constitution, I would consider this little lesson from Madison. There is no Constitutional authority for our federal government to fund a radio. It's not in the Constitution, and that's the only argument that matters.