Democrats Are Just One Vote Shy of Restoring Net Neutrality (engadget.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer now says Democrats in the Senate are a single vote away from restoring net neutrality. According to the senator from New York, they now have a total of 50 votes for a Senate resolution of disapproval that would restore the Open Internet Order of 2015 and deliver a stiff rebuke to Ajit Pai and other Republican members of the FCC. It would also prevent the agency from passing a similar measure in the future, all but guaranteeing Net Neutrality is permanently preserved. Right now the resolution has the support of all 49 Democrats in the Senate and one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine. But Schumer and the rest of the caucus will have to win over one more Republican vote to prevent Vice President Mike Pence from breaking tie and allowing the repeal to stand. Under the Congressional Review Act, the Senate has 60 days to challenge a decision by an independent agency like the FCC. Democrats have less than 30 days to convince a "moderate" like John McCain or Lindsey Graham to buck their party. Further reading: The Washington Post (paywalled)

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Re:scare quotes

[Mashiki]

Those people named? They're not moderates or conservatives. They're RINO's, much like how many of the democrats today are DINO's or if you prefer, batshit insane crazy progressives in both cases or people out to enrich themselves at the taxpayer expense. What should really bother people is that democrats want to push back the old system that was broken in the first place, chalk full of regulations and *not* NN. Instead of say writing a bill from the ground up that's simple and clear. If the democrats could do that, without attaching 240 riders to, you could even get Rand Paul to join in on it. And Rand Paul is far closer to an actual Liberal(not the modern corrupted version) then any democrat sitting today and has a lot of pull with multiple groups on the right.

And since this is going to dive headlong into politics, maybe democrats would like to explain two things: First why did your party decide to embrace the neo-cons with open arms when tea party groups drove them out and told them to piss off. What you didn't notice the suddenly pro-war, we need more war, more war is always good people? Have you been paying attention? You know those guys, people like David "The Republican Party is dead!" Frum or in simple terms, they threw my ass out because all I wanted was war to enrich my friends. Second, why did democrats decide to go "more of the same" by following Clintons path? While at the same time not squashing the people who've been screeching *insert people are nazis* when the current deputy chair has openly advocated for a black ethnostate(aka he's an actual nazi).

Re:scare quotes

[Mashiki]

Since when are you the person who defines what being a Republican means? Maybe it's you guys on the extreme right who are RINOs as most are far more moderate then you.

"Extreme right" aka constitutionalist that believes it's not a "living breathing document", holds "pro-gun" views, doesn't like censorship, and believes that "smaller government" and "state rights" should be the primary drivers.

Re:I'm well aware of his speeches

[PopeRatzo]

and yes, he wouldn't have won if the racists stayed home. But there aren't enough racists to put him in office.

There are two possibilities. The people who voted for him are either, a) racist, or b) OK with racism.

Trump never tried to hide his racism. Going back to the Nixon administration, the Department of Justice (under a Republican) had to sue Donald Trump to get him to rent his apartments to black people. He kicked off his campaign by saying that he thought the first black president was really a secret muslim from Kenya. He's been making racist comments all along. People are just starting to look past the hype.

He won because he promised the people in the rust belt that the government work act to solve their problems.

And boy, were they in for a surprise.