Posted on 06/17/2010 7:03:09 PM PDT by pissant
Pledging to fight an "Internet takeover," Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced on Thursday that he will introduce legislation to weaken the "activist bureaucracy" at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) after the agency moved toward boosting its authority over broadband service providers at a morning meeting.
Blasting the FCC's decision as a "power grab," DeMint called for a neutered FCC govered by sun-sets on regulations and slowed by new standards for agency action.
"Obama’s FCC is now changing the rules to takeover and tax the Internet," DeMint said, calling the commission's latest move an example "of government agencies overstepping their bounds and creating their own laws without Congressional authority."
DeMint bases his bill on legislation he introduced in 2005 to comprehensively update communications law, a process that last occurred in 1996.
Other legislative possibilities for curbing FCC power have been floated recently, including a pledge form House Appropriations Committee member Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas) to introduce a budget amendment designed to limit any agency power boost.
Commerce Ranking Member Kay Bailey Hutchison, who sits on the Senate Appropriations panel, is rumored to be considering a similar maneuver, according to Senate aides.
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Yeah - that worked so well with the EPA....
As much as I admire Demint, if ya can’t deliver, it’s just a stunt....
Alot of RINOs decided they liked the EPA.....and the Dept of Ed.....and Hud.......and and and
F*** the RINOs
Good for Senator DeMint, but it’ll go nowhere. It’s just a campaign ploy. Meat for his conservative supporters.
But still, it’s more effort than most of the (R)s are putting forth.
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THOUGH I think it would take a tremendous amount of FREEPER and other grass roots support to get this passed.
Meat for his conservative supporters? He’s been giving out nothing but meat for his whole career. You must be for Precious?
Pull your head out of your ass, pissant. That’s just ignorant.
>But still, it’s more effort than most of the (R)s are putting forth.
That’s the thing that has me pissed with the Republican party!
They don’t put forth any real effort on their “party planks,”
like illegalizing abortion or reducing the size of government.
And then when one [amazingly] does, they get derided for it as
a ‘campaign ploy’ or ‘publicity.’ This has the cumulative effect
of making the Republican party a bunch of lying windbags; hell,
at least the Democrats are honest about trying to push for their
bad ideas!
The mere existence of the FCC is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution does not specifically list regulating communications as an enumerated power! It must be abolished!
ping
Various (R) individuals (like DeMint) are OK. But there’s nowhere near enough of those. And the party as a whole has been so lame for so long, they have quite a hole to climb out of.
If Sen. DeMint shows up to announce the bill with twelve supporters in tow, he’s exhibiting credible conservative leadership. Show up alone spewing fire and brimstone when the ‘Rats have a 9-seat majority, and he’s standing for re-election in 4 months — stunt. Sorry, I like Jim DeMint, I think he’s a fine conservative, and I wish it were more than a stunt, but reality is reality.
You must have really hated his stunt of singlehandedly saving Honduras from a marxist fate, as Obama and Chavez had planned.
You’re hyperventilating.
DeMint’s da man!!!!!!!!
I’ve always had this scene in my mind. The government calls the early radio entrepreneurs into a Federal office.
“We wanted to talk to you fellows about this invention of yours. How you can talk over those wave things in the air.”
One of the entrepreneur responds, “You mean radio waves.”
“Right. Those ‘radio’ wave things. Very clever of you. That’s what we need to talk to you about.”
“What about them?”
The Fed responds, “Well, you need to understand that WE own those wave things. We always have. You need to beg permission from us to use OUR radie waves. Now, here’s what it’s going to cost you to continue using OUR wave things.”
I don’t believe funding to the FCC should be cut. In fact, it should be increased to build a new sub-headquarters on the North Slope of Alaska. Little or no heating... these people are environmentalists, after all. Send all the regulators up where they can do no harm!
I know. He’s just a stunt man. He really didn’t do anything to help Honduras stay free.
Look, DeMint’s problem is lack of foxhole buddies. There are no citizen representatives, but only career opportunists that you and I have kept in office. We don’t run against entrenched RINO’s, so they stay under a rock while the dems are in power and feel no obligation whatsoever to oppose the loss of our representative government. The republicans are NOT representing us either. We’ve been had, and in many ways, by Bush also. For example, $60 Billion to abortion between 2002-2008, and that’s so against the Hyde Ammendment law.
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