House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality Proposal

crimeandpunishment writes "A compromise on net neutrality appears to be as likely as Google and China becoming BFFs. House Democrats have pulled the plug on efforts to work out a compromise among phone, cable, and Internet companies. House Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman, who shelved the proposal late on Wednesday in the face of Republican opposition, said, 'If Congress can't act, the FCC must,' and called this development 'a loss for consumers.' Internet companies and public interest groups say the new regulations are needed to keep phone and cable companies from playing favorites with traffic, while those companies insist they need flexibility so high-bandwidth applications don't slow down their systems." The net neutrality debate seems to have fallen victim to the extreme polarization evident in the larger political culture.

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Re:You? Why TF should they care about YOU?

[clarkkent09]

Republicans (homophobic, racist, anti-middle class...)

You mean Democrats (anti-American, communist, traitors...)? Name calling doesn't get you anywhere. How come this president campaigned, and still does, against divisiveness and yet the democrats (from the top) have been leading the way when it comes to the most vicious insults and attacks on their opponents. Also, practically all incidents of violence so far in this election campaign have come from the left.

Who voted against the repeal of DADT? Republicans

DADT was enacted under Clinton.

Who voted against a more comprehensive anti hate crime law? Republicans.

Screw you and your "hate" crimes and special protected classes that want to have different laws apply to them than to the rest of us. Assault is already a crime. Murder is already a crime. Why is it more of a crime if it was committed because what the assailant thought about the victim, as opposed to wanting to take the victims money or whatever?

Who voted against tax breaks for corporations who keep jobs in the U.S. less than a week ago? Republicans.

Democrats talking about tax breaks is laughable. Are you seriously going to argue that Democrats are generally in favor of lower taxes than Republicans?

Who created a $13 TRILLION hole in the government finances? BUSH

Far be it from me to defend Bush but let me just say that Democrats controlled the Congress and it wasn't a normal situation because of the 9/11 and a huge bipartisan support for massive increase in defense spending. Bush may have been a Republican but he didn't act in accordance to the Republican values and that is part of the reason Tea Party protests actually started while he was still in office. Look it up.

As for the last 30 years, actually I beat you, let's do 60 years, under Democrats the income of the middle class has steadily increased by 3%/year and that of the upper class by 2%/year, under Republicans the increase has been around 1% for both.

This is particularly laughable. The overall living standard depend on a lot of things other than who is in office, but on average it has been higher when Republicans were in office.

Re:You? Why TF should they care about YOU?

[Moryath]

What the hell, it's feeding the troll, but I've got a quiet afternoon planned.

What? That's absurd. Who keeps voting against minimum wage laws? Who keeps voting against worker safety laws? Who keeps voting against extended unemployment benefits? How by any stretch of the imagination are Democrats keeping people in "virtual slavery"? If anyone, it's the Republicans keeping workers in virtual slavery.

Wrong. Democrat "safe districts" are almost always full of a group of poor, uneducated "minorities" with higher joblessness rates, higher dropout rates, higher crime rates, higher underage gang membership rates, the works. Democrats don't WANT the people in these districts to get away from the blight, however. If you have ever seen a Dem in these areas campaigning, or watched what they put forth in terms of policies, it is NEVER what actually needs to be done to clear up crime, get rid of the gangs, and clean it up to attract any decent business back to the area.

Want to know how Detroit became the shithole it is? Decades of corruption on the parts of corrupt assholes like Coleman Young, Dennis Archer, and Kwame Kilpatrick who systematically stole whatever tax money they could while telling the captive poor that they'd better not vote Republican because those "evil mean white assholes" wanted to take away their welfare checks and food stamps. Want to know how Los Angeles got to be where it is? How Memphis got to be the murder capital of the US for a couple years? Milwaukee? East St. Louis? How about Washington DC, where the poverty pimps had the machine so rigged that Marion Barry kept getting reelected and reelected even after being a convicted felon, in and out of jail, and is back on the city council as a poverty pimp even today.

Democrats don't want to improve the lot of blacks or hispanics. They want to keep them locked up in dead-end ghettos and barrios, reliably cut off from society and happily voting Democrat like cattle lest those "evil mean white devils" somehow make things worse for them.

The clusterfuck "No Child Left Behind" was a Bush initiative. Are you from Bizarro World?

Local school boards in my area are invariably Democrat.
Teacher's Unions, which seem to exist largely to ensure that the crappiest teachers stick around forever, are invariably and reliably Democrat.
Ted Kennedy, a Democrat, was the NCLB's primary co-author and its primary sponsor through the legislative process.
The NCLB passed the House by a 384-45 vote and Senate by 91-8; Nays were 5 Republican 3 Democrat in the Senate and 34 Republican, 10 Democrat in the House.

I think you're the one from Bizarro World; I already pointed out how much of a stupid, retarded RINO Bush was.

I don't live in Louisiana, and neither do most Americans. Just because the idiot on your city council are Democrats doesn't mean all Democrats are idiots... News flash: Again, PWARA. Look it instead of listening to Limbaugh and cure your ignorance if you dare.

I don't listen to Limbaugh because he's a partisan hack. I have better things to do with my time.
Of course, I don't live in Louisiana either. More states than just Louisiana got fucked over by the Katrina Debris.

Also, what the fuck do you mean by PWARA? Or did you mean PRWORA? As in this shitty piece of garbage legislation that is basically a meaningless, in-name-only change since it has holes in it to drive an entire truckload full of generational fraudsters through?

Any poor person, white or black, who votes Republican is even more stupid than a rich man voting Democrat.

Any poor person, white or black, who votes reliably one way or the other - instead of understanding the meaning of checks and balances and working to ensure that neither of these asshole parties completely controls the governmen

Re:You? Why TF should they care about YOU?

[liposuction]

Anyone that still believes Right and Left are limited to donkey and elephant is ignorant. More government or less government - there's your right and left.

Also, did you check into why Republicans might have voted against certain tax breaks? Knowing what I know about recent bills Democrats have wanted passed, it probably contained a line requiring all financial transactions over $600 to include a 1099 or something equally outrageous.

Oh wait wut?