Mitch McConnell Accuses Obama Of Plan To Seize Internet

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WASHINGTON - Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor Tuesday to warn that the Obama administration is on the verge of nationalizing the Internet, charging that the president has already seized large swaths of the economy.

The charge is a familiar one and reflects the Republican strategy of opposition to net neutrality, which portrays regulation of major broadband companies as a form of nationalization and control of the Internet itself. Advocates of net neutrality want the Federal Communications Commission to write rules preventing companies such as Comcast from giving priority to certain websites while making others slower to load. Such rules, said McConnell, the Senate minority leader, would amount to a takeover of the Internet. But without such rules, advocates of net neutrality say, a few major corporations would instead control the web.

The FCC will vote today on what rules should govern broadband providers.

McConnell (R-Ky.) also signaled the GOP will attempt to block such rules in the next Congress. "Today, the Obama administration, which has already nationalized health care, the auto industry, insurance companies, banks and student loans, will move forward with what could be the first step in controlling how Americans use the Internet by establishing federal regulations on its use," said McConnell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/21/mitch-mcconnell-accuses-o_1_n_799674.html

[atreides1]

1. Not to worry

Because President Obama will work in a bi-partisan manner to acheive a compromise that will satisfy his Republican friends across the aisle.

[checks-n-balances]

2. Isn't he projecting, as usual?

Probably been a dream of rethugs & the Nat'l Chamber of Comm. in order to keep it in corporate hands to make all the bucks. Mustn't give "the little guy" anything.

[Still a Democrat]

3. But it's fake regulation that the GOP loves!

I'm confused! :sarcasm:

[Hippo_Tron]

4. Obama hasn't nationalized any of those by any stretch of the imagination

My favorite is his argument about student loans. Banks are perfectly free to lend to students. They just don't get secured at 98% from the government anymore.

[Raine1967]

5. Intellectually dishonesty.

They are just scum when it comes to be truthful.

[drm604]

6. If I thought that McConnell actually believed any of that

I'd say he was delusional.

[old mark]

7. Who really cares what McConnell "thinks"....nt

[great white snark]

9. Exactly. Delusional McConnell puts the "huffing" in Huffingtonpost.

[EC]

8. I don't think he understands the web...

so I can't be sure if he is purposefully misleading or just stupid and passe.


on edit: nah, he just wants his pals to make money off the web...

[Bluenorthwest]

10. McConnell is like a vandal in the Seanate

He is one of the most reckless, unthinking spouters of hyperbole that Chamber has ever seen, and that Chamber is a historic center of reckless spouting. He seems to hold the truth, the country, and the very language in contempt.

[11 Bravo]

11. Mitch also accused the President of stealing his chin.

[Arkana]

12. Yes, Mitch. Obama is a mustache-twirling supervillain who wants to build

a giant Kenyan Marxist robot and arm it with all the knowledge on the Internet.

[jefferson_dem]

13. Both wings are totally psycho on this issue ...

Synergy in teh :crazy:

[Honeycombe8]

14. What crap. nt

[PurityOfEssence]

15. When the privileged meet any resistance at all, it's oppression

Just as the extremists among Christians shriek about bigotry when anyone gets in their way of dominating and controlling everything, the monied elite violently opposes any attempt to lessen its control. Major companies want to restrict the flow of ideas; to McConnell, this is their god-given right, and anyone mitigating this in the least is a bolshevik.

Standard Operating Procedure.

I just hope they keep over-reaching; having been an adult through the eighties and nineties, I have great hopes for their continued belief in their own propaganda, and even with considerable media control, some uglinesses simply can't be hidden.

We shall see, indeed...

[zulchzulu]

16. Mitch, use that government-run healthcare you have to have your head removed from your ass

You'll feel so much better.

:crazy:

[golfguru]

17. nationalize anything .. I don't care

just do not nationalize golf courses :)