“On Sunday, Minnesota Senator Al Franken appeared on CNN’s “State Of The Union” with Candy Crowley and launched into a ripping critique of Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s net neutrality position, basically saying that Cruz doesn’t understand the issue at all.
Following President Obama’s November 10 statement urging the FCC to enforce regulations to protect net neutrality, Senator Cruz wrote a strong-minded opinion in the Washington Post.
“In short, net neutrality is Obamacare for the Internet. It would put the government in charge of determining Internet pricing, terms of service and what types of products and services can be delivered, leading to fewer choices, fewer opportunities and higher prices,” Cruz said in the Washington Post.
Senator Franken was not impressed.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (TYT University) break it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.businessinsider.com/al-franken-ted-cruz-cnn-net-neutrality-2014-11
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Well of course he is both evil and idiotic. If he was smart, he’d be working towards fixing the party and actually getting corporations behind them.
Instead he goes for the money and hoping they can gerrymander the election process. It is all supposed to blow up on their face unless Citizen’s united ruling actually drives entirely the government towards corporations.
If that happens, Metal Gear Solid 2 had it right then, as a future-foretelling the-government-is-a-puppet-of-corporations ending