FCC chair distances himself from Obama on Net Neutrality (NOT Blindly Following Orders)

Hot Air ^ | November 12, 2014 | Ed Morrissey

[PJ-Comix]

That would be the Democratic, Barack Obama-appointed FCC chair, who spent yesterday backpedaling from his boss on a major policy announcement. Obama went so far as to push out a video demanding unilateral action from the FCC on Net Neutrality, the latest White House distraction from the disastrous midterm elections and an attempt to show that Obama is still relevant:

“As long as I’m President,” Obama says into the camera after cheesy, 1996-style buffering graphics, “that’s what I’ll be fighting for, too.” He may be fighting for it, but Obama clearly isn’t managing for it very well. Within hours of this declaration, the man who reports to the White House on this very subject was putting a lot of daylight between Obama and himself:

[PJ-Comix]

One has to wonder how badly a President has to bungle executive management to get a bundler to declare his independence from a President. However one conceives the FCC’s position in the federal bureaucracy — technically, all agencies outside the White House are “independent” — the Obama-Wheeler history strongly suggests interdependence at the least, and patronage as the reason Wheeler’s got his current job at all. How Obama managed to get Wheeler so out of the loop that his own man at the FCC stepped all over his message is a question Democrats should be asking themselves, and deciding whether it’s worth marching behind this incompetently-run White House at all.

Take note ICE agents, leadership, and union. The FCC Chairman is NOT blindly following orders. Please keep this in mind when The King waves his wand for ILLEGAL Executive Action granting amnesty next month.

[DoughtyOne]

I wonder who the nominees will be to replace the head up the FCC? Michelle?

[Minsc]

Dang it all, I want my internet service rates to sky rocket because, because Obama is against it! After all AT&T, Charter and Verizon have my best interests at heart! Right?

(chuckle)

[Rennes Templar]

“...show that Obama is still relevant”

Did his handlers actually think this would get broad support?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[MeshugeMikey]

this is part of the NEW CHANGE......gosh durn it!

[Red Badger]

Hope he doesn’t have any skeletons in his closet.......................

[Nachum]

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[Old Sarge]

Take note ICE agents, leadership, and union. The FCC Chairman is NOT blindly following orders.

One statement by an apparatchik does not a policy make.

I predict two things:

1. The ObamaNet will be enacted, not by Congress but by imperial order, and the FCC will enforce it; and
2.The unions will once again, and as always, take to the streets to support their paymasters.

[drypowder]

WOOD SHED city resulting in him/her to soon be kicking ROAD APPLES

[Blood of Tyrants]

No problem. Obama will just fire him and put in a sycophant who will do whatever he/she is told.

[BitWielder1]

I'd rather have AT&T and Verizon compete to sell me a product that I want, rather than have the gov't dictate what I must have.

[Mariner]

The FCC Chair realizes, as all Democrats are beginning to realize, he needs a job after Obama.

[ex91B10]

Barry is getting toxic.

[Mariner]

"Dang it all, I want my internet service rates to sky rocket because, because Obama is against it! After all AT&T, Charter and Verizon have my best interests at heart! Right?"

Why do you continue to advocate for your communist crap on this site?

Is there something wrong with liberty that you believe you need to fix?

You actually believe it's OK to use the power of government to tell a property owner how he may package the service offered by his property? Especially when there is no overriding moral issue?

Should we compel Exxon to sell fuel at $2/gallon? Wouldn't $2 gas be a desirable thing? Should we compel Exxon to purchase their crude from specific suppliers when Exxon is ALSO a crude producer?

[Mariner]

"Dang it all, I want my internet service rates to sky rocket because, because Obama is against it! After all AT&T, Charter and Verizon have my best interests at heart! Right?"

Why do you continue to advocate for your communist crap on this site?

Is there something wrong with liberty that you believe you need to fix?

You actually believe it's OK to use the power of government to tell a property owner how he may package the service offered by his property? Especially when there is no overriding moral issue?

Should we compel Exxon to sell fuel at $2/gallon? Wouldn't $2 gas be a desirable thing? Should we compel Exxon to purchase their crude from specific suppliers when Exxon is ALSO a crude producer?

[nascarnation]

They look like such a nice couple....

[Minsc]

Let me clarify a couple things. 1. I do not want government interference. 2. I don’t want to have to pay for the amount I use plus bandwidth.

So, I agree with the GOP stance that we do not want government interference. I also do not agree with putting internet from Class 1 (service) to Class 2 (utility).

Another clarification, this requires an act of Congress NOT the executive branch and the change explained above has been tried before and has been shot down numerous times in the past.

I hope that clears up my position.