GOP makes U-turn on net neutrality

Politico ^ | January 16, 2015 | Kate Tummarelllo

[C19fan]

Republicans in Congress are doing a 180 on net neutrality as the Federal Communications Commission prepares to issue new rules within weeks. For years, GOP lawmakers have adamantly opposed any rules requiring Internet service providers to treat all Web traffic equally, calling them unnecessary and an example of Washington overreach. But now that the FCC is moving toward issuing a tough net neutrality order that would subject broadband to utility-style regulation — an approach endorsed by President Barack Obama — top Republicans in both chambers are making plans to legislate their own rules to ensure the agency doesn’t go too far.

[C19fan]

Just a few weeks into a new GOP Congress and already waving white flags. This is classic GOP we think the gov't should do something but we won't be as the Democrats.

[cuban leaf]

I remember when I left the R party.

They controlled both sides of the house and W was president. You would have thought they were democrats when you saw what they said and did.

Fool me once...

[Pietro]

Here we are once again gaining ground on Obama by doing everything he's asking for.

A rare strategy.

[CMailBag]

R now stands for ROLLOVER

[Old Sarge]

GOP (Giving Obama Power) is the moderate wing of the Uniparty.

Tell me again that votes matter?

TINVOWOOT.

[TADSLOS]

UNIPARTY Ping.

[KC_Lion]

Giving Obama Power

That is a good one.

They want nothing to stand in the way of the Party of Government.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Maybe I am just dumb, but explain how giving Obama what he wants gains the country anything. /s

[Personal Responsibility]

It’s a strategy Neville Chamberlain would be proud of.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Not a shock. It just polls too well. There is no political downside to stickin’ it to Comcast.

[Night Hides Not]

2016 is going to be a motherf——r.

[Aria]

It seems that Soros and the Muslim Brotherhood are really running this country and now the Republicans are going along with it?

WHY???

[TomGuy]

Republicans have made so many u-turns that they don’t even know what direction they are headed in.

They are close to becoming the Us-Too wing of the Democratic Party.

[AU72]

Wake me up when the Republican Congress does something conservative.

[LS]

They are not just waving white flags, they are in the front ranks. Unreal.

[txrefugee]

The only group that falls for Obama’s “leading from behind” strategy is the terminally stupid GOP Congress. Ever notice how every issue always winds up with the federal government bigger and wielding more power?

[KC_Lion]

Thank You for the Ping Tadslos!

[Maurice Tift]

  Not a shock. It just polls too well. There is no political downside to stickin’ it to Comcast.

  I wonder who Comcast will stick it to... Will internet even be affordable in a few years? Cruz was right when he called it "Obamacare for the internet."

[Timber Rattler]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[chris37]

Is there any degree of suck that this pitiful sh!t party will not descend to?