WV's Senior Senator Carries Obama's Water on Wireless

Thick as Thieves - the big one is the sock puppet

http://spectator.org/archives/2011/06/14/national-public-internet

"Late last week a bill co-sponsored by U.S. Senators John D. (Jay) Rockefeller (D-WV) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), that would set aside a wide swath of valuable wireless spectrum to public safety, passed by a bipartisan vote in the Senate Commerce Committee. Funding to build the network would come from the auctioning of additional spectrum to private companies, as well as taxpayer dollars..."

"...But some Obama Administration officials see the proposed network as an opportunity to create new competition in the wireless marketplace. Within the next week, the FCC is expected to release a report that declines to identify the wireless marketplace as "competitive" even though in the past, the federal agency has determined that the wireless market is exactly that."

"What you are seeing out of the Obama FCC is an effort to use official government reports to influence public opinion and seed the ground for White House and Cabinet-level department policies that essentially further 'socialize' our economy," says a senior Republican Commerce Committee aide. "You saw it with net neutrality, you've seen it with health care and the environment and now you're seeing it with wireless communications."

Two key phrases:

"to public safety" ...... and ........ "to influence public opinion"

That should be interpreted to read:

"Iffen you want to pass new Legislation to increase the size of government for restricting the rights of the populace then convince the public that it is in their own best interest for protecting their safety."

Yup, iffen you "put the fear of God in them" ........ or "scare the Bejesus out of them" ........... they will agree to and support most anything you suggest that will "save their arse" from its impending doom.

And to best help ya accomplish the above ya gotta keep the populace infighting among themselves on silly assed issues such as ..... abortion, ... prayer in schools, ...... illegal immigration, ....... CO2 caused AGW, ......... and an asundry of other issues that don't make a rats ass of difference in...