Cruz looking to blunt FCC authority

The Hill ^ | 05/13/14 08:11 PM EDT | Julian Hattem

[pierrem15]

I like Cruz— I just think he’s wrong on this issue.

[stanne]

Whatever

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article SoConPubbie. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

Regarding federal government regulation of the Internet, the states cannot get the corrupt federal government's big nose out of the Internet without amending Constitution because of the Constitution's Commerce Clause, Clause 3 of Section 8 of Article I.

But what we're probably not going to hear from Harvard Law School-indectrinated Ted Cruz or Obama guard dog Fx News about the FCC and other federal fegulatory agencies is the following. The FCC is described as a so-called "independent federal regulatory agency." The problem with such agencies is that they cannot exist under the Constitution imo.

More specifically, the Founding States had made the first numbered clause in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative / regulatory powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected government bureaucrats like those running the FCC. In other words, Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.

So when corrupt, Constitution-ignoring Congress establishes independent federal regulatory agencies, it is wrongly protecting federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the statutes referenced above imo.