Because this is the most pressing matter to capture their collective attention, House Republicans moved swiftly to bring the issue of government funding for National Public Radio (or lack thereof, if they’d have it their way) to a vote Thursday.

But as The Christian Science Monitor points out, this isn’t the worst crisis NPR has faced in the last few decades. And as Talking Points Memo notes, conservative video vigilante James O’Keefe’s latest attempt to bring NPR down has fallen flat.

Update: The House voted along predictably partisan lines to end federal funding to NPR.