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The way I see it, after Obama lost the senate he felt the need to seem relevant, which ended up with him forcing Wheeler's hand on the net neutrality issue (he
by rpgmaker 11y ago
The way I see it, after Obama lost the senate he felt the need to seem relevant, which ended up with him forcing Wheeler's hand on the net neutrality issue (he publicly pressured him to support net neutrality). As a result, Wheeler burned his bridges with his telecom friends and now he just has nothing left to lose.
- slavik81 11y agoThat theory seems unnecessarily convoluted compared to the straightforward explanation in the article.
- enraged_camel 11y agoIt also implies that Obama has been irrelevant, which couldn't be further from the truth.
- Mvandenbergh 11y agoNot to mention the only-in-the-valley idea that he would try and improve his popularity with the American people as a whole through an issue that the vast majority of people neither understand nor care about.
- rpgmaker 11y agoOn the contrary, I said he was the reason why everything was put in motion in the first place. If anything I questioned his initial motives. If you follow politics you'd know what was the mood in the WH right after Obama lost the senate and how he felt the need to reassert himself. A lot of good has come from that.
- rpgmaker 11y agoWheeler of course will give a self-serving explanation about the whole thing and since he is now "on our side" people will easily forget how he dragged his feet for months and months until Obama (along with increased pressure from the public) prodded him to take the net neutrality stance.
- Aloha 11y agoYour punditry is cable-news worthy.
- rpgmaker 11y agoYour puns aren't far behind. As I said, if you follow politics you'd know what was the mood in the WH right after Obama lost the senate and how he felt the need to reassert himself. A lot of good has come from that.