That’s the percentage of Republican voters who support Net Neutrality:
House Republicans are trying to block the new net neutrality rules passed by the FCC, and are turning a victory for the open internet into an Obama conspiracy theory.
In a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, the Republicans threatened to block the new net neutrality rules:
We are also troubled by the manner in which the ‘Open Internet’ rules were formulated. On November 10, 2014, President Obama urged the FCC to impose Title II regulations on the Internet. Shortly thereafter, you began making statements in support of a Title II approach. Certainly, the timing of your support for Title II following the President’s recommendation calls into question the degree, if not the existence, of the FCC’s independence from the White House.
….We will not stand by idly as the White House, using the FCC, attempts to advance rules that imperil the future of the Internet. We plan to support and urge our colleagues to pass a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving the “Open Internet” rules. Not only will such a resolution nullify the ‘Open Internet’ rules, the resolution will prevent the FCC from relying on Title II for any future net neutrality rules unless Congress explicitly instructs the FCC to take such action.
The practical problem is that any resolution that the House passes will have to clear the Senate, and would be vetoed by President Obama. House Republicans are on a quite a destructive roll. They are in the process of shutting down Homeland Security unless John Boehner decides to cave and pass a clean funding bill. The House has no chance of overturning President Obama’s immigration executive orders, and they face roughly the same odds on blocking the FCC’s new net neutrality rules.
Since the Republican “sweep” of the Senate and the House last November they have gone down in flames. We can thank the destruction of the Republican Party on all of those ‘smart’ Democrats who stayed home and refused to vote in the last election.
Today we had a “Friday document dump” from the Zionist Netanyahu camp in Israel. These fascists provided “secret” documents to the usual right wing news outlets—FOX War Network, Weekly Standard, Washington Times, New York Post—purportedly showing a connection between bin Laden’s Al Qaeda and Iran in the 1990’s. This is an obvious attempt by Netanyahu’s allies in the United States including AIPAC to undermine Obama and the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks ahead of Bibi’s visit next week.
What lowlifes the Israelis are.
The telecoms seem to have done themselves in. Everyone hates them intensely. Karma.
No surprise here. Rethugs could care less about anyone, including their genetically deformed base. The only goal is providing their 1% funders and themselves with mo’ money.