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Glen Head, NY | Lesson Learned There is one lesson I am sure Darrell Issa has learned; DO NOT ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON YOUR PROPOSALS! I am sure this is the last time the general public will be invited to comment on proposed legislation from him. From now on all legislative work will take place behind locked doors with lobbyists seated at the table.
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| Lobbyist-run Congress Issa is an example of the best Congress lobbyists can buy. He's already raising money for his next campaign. |
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Fort Wayne, IN
kudos:7 | said by rdmiller:He's already raising money for his next campaign. The only time a politician is NOT raising money for his next campaign is when they are guaranteed retiring from politics or they won't run again for an office due to term limits (e.g modern Presidents) |
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| Regulations are best left to the states The most incompetent regulator is the federal government.
I think regulation of the internet (particularly last mile ISPs such as Comcast or Verizon) should be left to state Public Utilities Commissions as they hold a de facto monopoly on broadband like water, gas, and electric companies hold a de facto monopoly on their respective industries.
I also think there needs to be more centralized regulation on siting of communications facilities where the state PUC should be the one with sole authority to regulate such sitings. Case in point is Cell Towers as the cell phone companies have to fight each city or town hall where they want to put up a new cell tower, even if they have a willing property owner such as a church who the cell companies will construct a steeple or willingly hide the equipment in an existing steeple. I sometimes think pre-emption of local regulations is a good thing and I think the cities and towns should be stripped of their authority to regulate communications towers and that authority given to a state PUC as people complain about that cell tower going up in their neighborhood and at the same time complain about spotty/no reception on their cell phones.
I would not mind regulators at the state level in Boston rubber stamping cell tower approvals for towers located in Springfield or the more affluent Longmeadow (MA) when a local city or town government would deny a cell tower permit. Sometimes local regulations are good and sometimes they create too much red tape (case in point, cell towers and decent reception). |
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Re: Lobbyist-run Congress said by rdmiller:Issa is an example of the best Congress lobbyists can buy. He's already raising money for his next campaign.
not to mention he is an @sshole of major proportions and one of the richest members of congress.
If he does something to benefit consumers, it's purely by accident. |
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kudos:5 | reply to Telco
Re: Asleep said by Telco:Was this guy asleep during this last election? The landslide and memorandum only occurred a few weeks ago after all.
Issa got 59% of the vote. The landslide didn't affect him.
»www.thepoliticalguide.com/Electi···rnia/49/
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kudos:5 | reply to nasadude
Re: Lobbyist-run Congress said by nasadude:not to mention he is an @sshole of major proportions and one of the richest members of congress. He made his money building a business and selling car alarms to auto companies, & not in Congress.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Is···s_career
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Re: Regulations are best left to the states People who hate cell towers make me laugh, Because they will say no to any transmitter in their town and then complain that they do not have 4g for their latest iDevice.
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Re: Asleep At least not until more Old GOPpers die of old age... |
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Re: Lesson Learned Like Issa would care about comments from the little people who don't have massive amounts of moola to contribute to His bribe, er campaign fund? |
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Re: Lobbyist-run Congress And probably a Bigger crook than Nixon ever was... |
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Re: Regulations are best left to the states said by Kearnstd:People who hate cell towers make me laugh, Because they will say no to any transmitter in their town and then complain that they do not have 4g for their latest iDevice.
Yep... Of that I have no doubt... |
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Re: Lobbyist-run Congress said by nasadude:said by rdmiller:Issa is an example of the best Congress lobbyists can buy. He's already raising money for his next campaign.
not to mention he is an @sshole of major proportions and one of the richest members of congress. If he does something to benefit consumers, it's purely by accident. And you care how rich he is why? |
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Downingtown, PA
kudos:2 | Missing the point The good folks on Reddit may understand the industry, but the really don't have a clue about the machinations of Congress, if the article is any indicator. Why is it assumed that Issa is a moron? You really think he doesn't understand that this bill would put a moratorium on all activity (regulatory) changes over the next 2 years? Of course he does.
You have an administration that was just reelected that has shown an utter disregard for the constitution when it comes to legislation (DREAM Act... we don't need no stinking DREAM Act! We'll just pretend it passed! Yeah, that's it! - not to mention the notion that there's been no budget for the last 3 years... or recess appointments that happen while Congress is very much in session...), and who has been very open over the notion that he plans on getting around Congress via new regulation passed by the extensions of the executive branch. The EPA is case in point - they've been very vocal over their plans to push the regulation to such a point so as to make coal pretty much illegal.
This is Issa trying to stop the administration from engaging in that type of behavior. It also would affect, I presume, the implementation of the regulations for Obamacare. Again... to believe that Issa is a dupe, who doesn't understand what he's asking for, is to be totally blind to how Washington works. In fact I would argue that the bill really has nothing to do with the internet. It's a way to get the executive branch from bypassing Congress. |
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New Orleans, LA | said by JPL:You have an administration that was just reelected that has shown an utter disregard for the constitution when it comes to legislation This coming from someone who probably can't even tell us what the Constitution says.
How many times will we hear people incorrectly crying about the Constitution and the meaning behind the words?
Republicans want the country to believe they love the Constitution yet we have their former President introducing multiple levels of questionable privacy laws, a VP who believed their was a 4th Level of Government, and a group of sheep that follow Republicans around the Constitution claiming it says a slew of things that are nowhere to be found in the ACTUAL Constitution.
I am just surprised you didn't throw in a few Founding Father references about a topic that didn't exist until the 20th Century. |
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JPLPremium
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Downingtown, PA
kudos:2 | You mean the patriot act? The bill that, you know, Congress actually authorized? Is that the privacy bill you're talking about? Let me give you a hint about this - when Congress passes a law, and the president signs it, it's following a constitutional process. The supreme court can decide if the law oversteps the bounds of the constitution. That's the normal constitutional order - that's called checks and balances.
But what this administration has done is to utterly ignore the constitution. Remember when Bush had his signing statements? The media had a cow over those. Yeah, too bad Obama doesn't do those, right? Um, yeah, he does. You know what else he does? He takes a law, like DOMA, and decides he doesn't want to defend it. He issues recess appointments when Congress isn't in recess (that is in direct violation of the constitution, btw). He goes for 3 years without a budget. Again... a violation of the constitution. He then automatically assumes the DREAM act is law, even though it's never been put forward as a bill in Congress. Those are flagrant violations of the constitution.
You may not have liked the patriot act, but it was a constitutionally passed piece of legislation. The fact that the courts later struck parts of it down, don't take away from that (which puts it in line, in that respect, with McCain Feingold and Obamacare - both of which were partially struck down by the courts). This president has no respect for the constitution, and the processes that have been put in place for it. As such, he ignores it when he feels like it.
The point of my post, though, was to illustrate a simple point. Obama has declared that he will use these federal agencies to promote regulations without bothering to go through congress. Can't get cap and trade passed? No problem! We'll just have the EPA pretend that it's been passed! Obamacare is about to unleash a slew of new regulations. My point remains the same - Issa is (I believe) trying to stop the executive branch from this overreach. The article made it sound like Issa had no clue of the effects of his bill. I think that's crap. I think he knows full well what the effects of the bill are, and I would argue that they are his intent - to stop the march of regulations from the executive branch. |
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Evanston, IL | reply to Methadras
Re: Lobbyist-run Congress it's not how rich he is. it's how he got rich that people care about. |
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Evanston, IL | reply to Pickwick
Re: There is no such thing as a "good regulation" yeah. fuck people who want clean drinking water. |
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