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[dooBdoo]

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Great s cr ew the people over once again by making their taxes pay for 3 congressional committees who don't like that the people scored a victory. That is exactly why nothing gets done in congress for the better of the citizens. The high rollers met with defeat. We just can't have that....that's what the lobbyists pay them for.

Great posts. All the time wasted "investigating" things that passed, simply to assuage bruised egos or to satisfy their coveted lobbyists, is enormous money down the drain and time gone that could've been used to help the country. It reminds me of frivolous lawsuits, and I wish the pols who do it could be heavily fined when their "investigations" find no wrong doing.

[Blahblahvampemer]

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Popular? A huge chunk of our population doesn't even know who the first president was.

[Blahblahvampemer]

On 2/26/2015 dooBdoo said:

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Great s cr ew the people over once again by making their taxes pay for 3 congressional committees who don't like that the people scored a victory. That is exactly why nothing gets done in congress for the better of the citizens. The high rollers met with defeat. We just can't have that....that's what the lobbyists pay them for.

Great posts. All the time wasted "investigating" things that passed, simply to assuage bruised egos or to satisfy their coveted lobbyists, is enormous money down the drain and time gone that could've been used to help the country. It reminds me of frivolous lawsuits, and I wish the pols who do it could be heavily fined when their "investigations" find no wrong doing.

Those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. The alphabet scandals should be exposed with people fired or jailed.

[RainCityGirl]

On 2/26/2015 dooBdoo said:

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Great s cr ew the people over once again by making their taxes pay for 3 congressional committees who don't like that the people scored a victory. That is exactly why nothing gets done in congress for the better of the citizens. The high rollers met with defeat. We just can't have that....that's what the lobbyists pay them for.

Great posts. All the time wasted "investigating" things that passed, simply to assuage bruised egos or to satisfy their coveted lobbyists, is enormous money down the drain and time gone that could've been used to help the country. It reminds me of frivolous lawsuits, and I wish the pols who do it could be heavily fined when their "investigations" find no wrong doing.

When no wrong doing is found, the jerks just launch an investigation of the investigation. I guess they think it they keep it up, eventually they will get the outcome they already have preconceived.

[SnowPink]

It's kind of baffling to me why anyone in this free country would WANT the federal government being able to regulate every aspect of their lives.

[LilacTree]

I would have to see exactly what this ""regulation"" entailed to make an informed response. I do think some regulation is in order because of our security issues.

[Mominohio]

On 2/26/2015 SnowPink said:

Quick three step quiz for anyone supporting Net Neutrality:

1. Does it take 332 pages to say that ISP's can't slow your access to a website?

2. If "no" - what else is contained in those 332 pages?

3. If "I don't know" - how can you possibly be supporting it?

I agree. This is the first step in somethings coming that most aren't able to see. It will someday not be seen as a great victory, but another time the left hand didn't know what the right was doing.

[dooBdoo]

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 dooBdoo said:

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Great s cr ew the people over once again by making their taxes pay for 3 congressional committees who don't like that the people scored a victory. That is exactly why nothing gets done in congress for the better of the citizens. The high rollers met with defeat. We just can't have that....that's what the lobbyists pay them for.

Great posts. All the time wasted "investigating" things that passed, simply to assuage bruised egos or to satisfy their coveted lobbyists, is enormous money down the drain and time gone that could've been used to help the country. It reminds me of frivolous lawsuits, and I wish the pols who do it could be heavily fined when their "investigations" find no wrong doing.

When no wrong doing is found, the jerks just launch an investigation of the investigation. I guess they think it they keep it up, eventually they will get the outcome they already have preconceived.

I agree. I wish voters would pay more attention to this. Actually, I wish more people would take the time to make themselves better informed by a myriad of sources, and more of the informed people would vote.

[adelle38]

On 2/26/2015 blahblahvampemerblah said:

On 2/26/2015 hckynut said: Regulation by whom? Am I to presume this means by beaurocrats?

Yes. Europe essentially has this, and it has cost them dearly. R&D dropped, and costs went up. George Soros is a big backer of this, and he's the one that said the only thing standing between him and the one-world gov he wants is America. NN is a solution to a problem we don't have. There are also movements on the dem side to start reigning in 1A rights, and this is the first step.

That's simply not true. People in the UK pay an annual TV license fee for about $150 per year. The average cost for internet is half of what we pay in this country. Millions of American citizens wrote to the FCC to express support for continuing net neutrality.

[Ismilealot]

On 2/26/2015 SnowPink said:

It's kind of baffling to me why anyone in this free country would WANT the federal government being able to regulate every aspect of their lives.

Maybe because some want ""this free country"" to be more like other countries. Very curious indeed.