Registering Bloggers?

Instapundit:

HARRY REID INTRODUCES BILL TO REGISTER BLOGGERS?  Hmm.

Put this together with a move toward the reintroduction of the inaptly named "fairness doctrine" and it's starting to look like a rather heavyhanded effort to silence critics.

UPDATE:  Much more here, including the revelation that -- surprise, surprise -- Trent Lott is on board.

UPDATE:  Professor Bainbridge doesn't buy it.