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As the article called out, they could have worked with the GOP to pass something that would get through the Senate and president. Rather the Democratic House de

by kyrra 8y ago

As the article called out, they could have worked with the GOP to pass something that would get through the Senate and president. Rather the Democratic House decided to pass a DOA bill for posturing purposes. (the GOP regularly does this too). Maybe the media should stop reporting on the posturing of the parties.

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kllrnohj 8y ago
> Rather the Democratic House decided to pass a DOA bill for posturing purposes. Are you really going to try and twist this into being the Democrats' fault? The bill has popular support and simply returns to the rules that previously existed. It's not a drastic posturing bill. The GOP leadership could also just not be bought and paid for and do what's good for the country instead of their personal bank accounts.
- kyrra 8y ago
  I'm blaming this on all most federal politicians. As I said, republicans do this same thing. The D's passed a bill without compromise, knowing it is dead in the upper chambers. It's also the fault of the GOP not looking to compromise. If either side was interested in actually passing something useful here, they would work together. The problem is that the federal house and senate have long been hard divided and stopped working together.
  - Dylan16807 8y ago
    Not everything needs to be a 'compromise'. Sometimes you can just judge a bill on its merits.
  - crooked-v 8y ago
    The Democrats are interested in passing something useful here, while the Republicans are interested in opposing everything the Democrats could possibly do because they're Democrats.
tzs 8y ago
This bill just restores the rules from the Open Internet Order of 2015. Last term the Senate, controlled by Republicans, voted in favor of restoring those rules when there was an attempt to use the Congressional Review Act to cancel Pai's FCC's repeal of them. The Senate is slightly more Republican now than it was then, so it might have less chance now, but it is in no way a foregone conclusion that this Senate would not vote for restoring those rules.

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kllrnohj 8y ago

> Rather the Democratic House decided to pass a DOA bill for posturing purposes. Are you really going to try and twist this into being the Democrats' fault? The bill has popular support and simply returns to the rules that previously existed. It's not a drastic posturing bill. The GOP leadership could also just not be bought and paid for and do what's good for the country instead of their personal bank accounts.

kyrra 8y ago
I'm blaming this on all most federal politicians. As I said, republicans do this same thing. The D's passed a bill without compromise, knowing it is dead in the upper chambers. It's also the fault of the GOP not looking to compromise. If either side was interested in actually passing something useful here, they would work together. The problem is that the federal house and senate have long been hard divided and stopped working together.
- Dylan16807 8y ago
  Not everything needs to be a 'compromise'. Sometimes you can just judge a bill on its merits.
- crooked-v 8y ago
  The Democrats are interested in passing something useful here, while the Republicans are interested in opposing everything the Democrats could possibly do because they're Democrats.

tzs 8y ago

This bill just restores the rules from the Open Internet Order of 2015. Last term the Senate, controlled by Republicans, voted in favor of restoring those rules when there was an attempt to use the Congressional Review Act to cancel Pai's FCC's repeal of them. The Senate is slightly more Republican now than it was then, so it might have less chance now, but it is in no way a foregone conclusion that this Senate would not vote for restoring those rules.