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How They Roll
This is just how the GOP rolls. When Bill Clinton left office we were
number one or two in broadband. Now we're down around 17 behind
some Eastern European countries. The GOP keeps saying they're about
competition, but they keep passing bills to stifle real competition. Sort
of like the Telecom Act of 1996 which Republicans claimed would
foster competition when it did exactly the opposite. It helped larger
companies gobble up smaller ones and reduced competition and help
to solidify the monopolistic nature of the big telecoms who, with this
act in their pocket were free to keep bandwidth low and prices high.
They had no incentive to do otherwise because the GOP is in their
pocket too.

The GOP has done more to damage this economy and this nation than
all the terrorists in every Islamic state ever did, but that's just how
they roll. Their touchstone is power, not people.

JoeL
Atlanta
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How They Roll  joeldm | 09/22/09
Poor Joe From Atlanta  Meat45 | 09/22/09
Worst U.S. president...  prof123 | 09/22/09
Don't forget  MadWhiteHatter | 09/22/09
Worst president...  prof123 | 09/22/09
Carter, without a doubt, was the worst president ever...  adornoe@... | 09/23/09
Don't worry, Obama will outBush Bush  LBiege | 09/22/09
Debt and the Dollar  paulblaze | 09/22/09
I assume you have some ....  ShadeTree | 09/22/09
Facts  paulblaze | 09/22/09
The problem is that since ....  ShadeTree | 09/23/09
Are we talking about the same history?  LBiege | 09/22/09
Dollar and GWB  paulblaze | 09/22/09
Worst president...  prof123 | 09/22/09
Let's dig deeper  LBiege | 09/22/09
Woirst president...  prof123 | 09/22/09
huh?  LBiege | 09/22/09
keep digging  kckn4fun | 09/23/09
How they Roll  tomspach@... | 09/22/09
GOP is right  LBiege | 09/22/09
A bunch of rich old farts running the party...  BillDem | 09/22/09
Don't hold your breath...  tomspach@... | 09/22/09
Hope for the "old farts" in GOP wasteland  Savethenet | 09/22/09
Ethical?  Fark | 09/22/09
Not sure what you're saying  rapson | 09/22/09
NOW JUST STOP!  MadWhiteHatter | 09/22/09
I'm saying  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
So...  Fark | 09/22/09
War  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
Twisted view of how the system works.  ShadeTree | 09/22/09
Wrong Separation  paulblaze | 09/22/09
Both of which are Constitutional Powers arguements (nt)  ShadeTree | 09/22/09
Highway funds  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
So it is not okay to tell the FCC to act ....  ShadeTree | 09/22/09
No violation  wkulecz | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  sixwina | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  sixwina | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  gamerfreak | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  paulblaze | 09/22/09
separation of powers  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  Savethenet | 09/22/09
Republicans rail  sekakemp | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  tomspach@... | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  mathomp3@... | 09/22/09
Democracy?  rshores | 09/22/09
Re: Democracy  paulblaze | 09/22/09
Anyone who hopes for democracy is an ignorant fool  frgough | 09/22/09
which is exactly why  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
which is why they should be abolished  LBiege | 09/22/09
So you want Congress to make these decisions?  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
I want government's incompetent butt out of there  LBiege | 09/22/09
Interesting metaphor.  CobraA1 | 09/22/09
You're an idealist and your idea has no hope the real world  adornoe@... | 09/23/09
its a representative democracy  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
Nobody should ever be hoping for a "true democracy"  adornoe@... | 09/23/09
Rush to the bottom  mr1972 | 09/22/09
By the SAME logic ....  kd5auq | 09/22/09
NT  LBiege | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  Unkleskunky | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  Unkleskunky | 09/22/09
This republican likes the new principles.  CobraA1 | 09/22/09
Competition encouraged  frgough | 09/22/09
Protected monopoly status?  CobraA1 | 09/22/09
Monopoly Status  jbroche18 | 09/24/09
Agreed  djmik | 09/22/09
I love constitutionally ignorant people calling things  frgough | 09/22/09
I love people who praise checks and balances and say govt is not your  rkoman@... | 09/22/09
What, he cant be right on both accounts?  Been_Done_Before | 09/22/09
I love constitutionally ignorant people calling things  fletchb | 09/22/09
RE: Republicans rail against FCC's new net rules  docquesting@... | 09/22/09
sigh . . .  CobraA1 | 09/22/09
When you can't see the hidden agenda, the new net rules sound wonderful  adornoe@... | 09/23/09

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