JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA | Small, unintrusive government
Why is this -republican- getting the federal government involved in state and local issues that the fed has no business being in? |
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Primis1
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Coldwater, MI | Better question: What does party affiliation have to do with anything? |
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Nerdtalker
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said by JakCrow  :Why is this -republican- getting the federal government involved in state and local issues that the fed has no business being in? Why are you advocating against a bill that would stop another government official from passing a law banning every community from wiring itself for broadband?
Seems kind of backwards to argue against the government getting involved after they've already begun to.
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JakCrow
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1 edit | This is a state and local level issue. AND it looks like a nice conflict of interest too. Imagine that... |
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| said by JakCrow :This is a state and local level issue. I understand that. You're saying that it's ironic that a republican (who would usually advocate for state rights) is getting involved with an issue that should only concern that state. You're insinuating that there's some hypocrisy here, right?
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join:2001-02-20
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Obviously it is not just a state / local issue right now.
Any law, whether it is for or against it makes it a national issue. It would be nice to see a law defining it as not a national issue.
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broadbanderexpanderc
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McCain so much more than many of his colleagues has such a bipartisan head on his shoulders when it comes down to the issues. Allowing cities the chance to set up their own broadband networks can only increase the opportunities and interest in ther American broadband market, particularly in areas where people currently "don't need" broadband, but would be quite pleasantly surprised with its positive results. I think that if rural cities can set up their own broadband it might even create a flock of business back to the midwest and a create a far more integrated agricultural market as well. Kudos. |
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packetscan
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join:2004-10-19
Bridgeport, CT
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Mr. Pete sessions needs to step down and release the rains to someone how doesn't have a conflicting interest. |
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broadbanderexpanderc
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Re: Small, unintrusive government
Conflict of interest? Not for McCain. Conflict of interest YES for Sessions, the individual whose already trying to regulate broadband by BANNING local governments altogether from setting up their own broadband networks. Funny that an ex SBC employee whose wife owns more than $500,000 in stocks would do such a thing. McCain and Launtenberg are simply reacting to corrupt legislation, attemping to insure city's rights to set up their own utility infrastructure. |
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FTCXtreme
join:2005-03-14
New Braintree, MA | Mccain ready for his presidential election run...
Its true. He putting himself everywhere. I myself like Mccain, he's very moderate, and not super right wing. We need a president whos neither left nor right, we need a man inbetween, and thats why I say Mccain 08! |
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ieolus
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Duluth, GA | reply to Primis1
Re: Small, unintrusive government
Because Republicans are SUPPOSEDLY for smaller government. Don't act stupid.
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pnh102
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Re: Mccain ready for his presidential election run...
said by FTCXtreme :Its true. He putting himself everywhere. I myself like Mccain, he's very moderate, and not super right wing. McCain is not going to win the presidency as a Republican. He lost the 2000 primaries because he had no support in the Republican conservative base. The recent deal he struck in the Senate in which he sold out some of GWB's judicial nominees is not going to win him any votes in the conservative base in 2008 either. However, he could probably win if he ran as a Democrat because there are a lot of Democrats who like him.
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DirtyMic
join:2003-11-19
Pompano Beach, FL | I consider myself democrat, and I would vote for him no matter what ticket he was on. |
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23153443
join:2001-01-13
Westminster, MD
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Times like this make me have at least a glimmer of hope for both the Republican party and those in government. Pete Sessions is a bought and paid-for tool, and the feds have no business telling local municipalities how to waste their own tax dollars. That's for the overtaxed residents of those municipalities to decide.
I'm not a big fan of muni-funded utilities (if you can call it one) but McCain is right. It's not the business of the Federal Government.
At some point, can we just give Texas back to Spain? That would solve a lot of problems... |
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JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA
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Re: Small, unintrusive government
said by Nerdtalker :said by JakCrow :This is a state and local level issue. I understand that. You're saying that it's ironic that a republican (who would usually advocate for state rights) is getting involved with an issue that should only concern that state. You're insinuating that there's some hypocrisy here, right? You are correct. |
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JakCrow
join:2001-12-06
Palo Alto, CA
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said by broadbanderexpanderc:
Conflict of interest? Not for McCain. Conflict of interest YES for Sessions, the individual whose already trying to regulate broadband by BANNING local governments altogether from setting up their own broadband networks. Funny that an ex SBC employee whose wife owns more than $500,000 in stocks would do such a thing. McCain and Launtenberg are simply reacting to corrupt legislation, attemping to insure city's rights to set up their own utility infrastructure.
Yes. Conflict of interest on Session's part. I should have made the clearer. |
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Primis1
join:2005-06-13
Coldwater, MI
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In case you missed the boat, it's a Republican (McCain) and a Dem (Lautenberg) taking up a side against a Republican (Sessions). Party affiliation is fairly irrelevant in this case it seems and it's other interests that are drawing the lines.
Also, I can't really believe you're at all surprised that McCain would be involved against something like this. Either that or you haven't followed politics at all in the past few years... McCain's still railing against the cableco's over ala carte' at last check. This is right in his wheelhouse.
And as for Sessions' involvement, it's well-documented why he's interested in his side... |
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faberoptic
join:2001-05-13
San Antonio, TX
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Re: Mccain ready for his presidential election run...
I think McCain could probably garner support from the right off-center masses, even running as a democrat. He certainly has my vote should he chose to run.
In other posts, I've championed municipal broadband, particularly wireless, for the positive socioeconomic effects that we're all familiar with. This is the sort of thing that vilifies the entire Republican party, and it's embarrassing for those of us who lean right for the right reasons. |
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Primis1
join:2005-06-13
Coldwater, MI
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Re: Mccain ready for his presidential election run
I don't know that he would/will have much of a shot on either ticket really, but yeah. McCain's a rare breed in DC. Not so much for a moderate status or anything even as much as his making a nuisance of himself where nuisances often need to be made. Even if nobody else wants much to do with it.
I do think you underestimate McCain's Republican appeal a bit though... |
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broadbanderexpanderc
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Re: Mccain ready for his presidential election run...
I think you're underestimating just how "who ya know/party party party" the democrats are. McCain would be a wonderful nominee from either party and would obviously, I think, dominate a national election. However, democrats have been electing predictable party head nodders since ... well I think since FDR. Even Carter had been deeply invested in official party politics.
I think the shots of McCain winning the nomination have improved. I think health issues and the amount of money Bush had thrown behind him won him the primary in 2000, not the conservative base. The truth is the conservative base, just like the democratic base, votes with the money most of the time. I think this time, McCain could probably get the investment to be the party favorite. |
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