The point is that it makes no sense for Bachmann to be criticizing Gingrich for his stance when she took pretty much the same position herself less than two months ago.

You're definitely in the small minority then. Enjoy trying to convince people that your view of this is the way to go.

It's as if Mr. Levin and others have never heard of the law of diminishing returns. The FCC's plan upsets the entire system of rate-of-return that has worked so well to bring broadband to rural communities served by RoR regulated carriers just for the hopes of weeding out those two or three carriers with extra-high costs per line. It's like saying the entire Social Security system should be abolished because a few people are receiving some benefits they didn't really earn. We'd lose so much more in the process of preventing this "waste" than you'd ever hope to recover from eliminating it.

It's the same policy makers who bemoan the state of American broadband speeds and service compared to other countries (even though these surveys usually compare apples to oranges) who then turn around and say "we can't increase the amount of money" we spend on building broadband. They seem to expect our world rankings to improve magically. These policymakers either need to come up with more money or they need to stop complaining about our world rankings.

The policy question we should ask ourselves is: Do we want a modern communications network that reaches everyone in the country (within reasonability)? If the answer is yes, then we need to find a way to pay for it. That money can come from two places: 1) continue on the current course, which is tax everyone who uses a phone or 2) change the current system so that we tax the companies that profit by sending large amounts of content over the internet (i.e. Google, Netflix and others). I'd much prefer the government scrap the tax on the phone bill and tax the large content providers for their use of the Internet.

Let's be honest here. The only one on this panel who was advocating "taxing Google or Netflix" was Mark Cooper from the Consumer Federation of America. Shirley Bloomfield said nothing of the sort.

I don't suspect they'll make much money off of these. Most people who disagree with the tea party aren't going to want to walk around with with a t-shirt with an expletive on it. It's bad marketing on the creators' part. Dummies.

Yes, he definitely used the wrong map. In his text, he gets the state won or lost by Obama and McCain correct, but he linked to the wrong map. I think it's an honest mistake, but it needs to be corrected. It took my a while to figure out what the heck he was talking about.

This is sickening. These pension plans were an agreement between employers and employees. The American taxpayers, as a whole, should not be in the business of bailing out bad decisions made by these two groups. If a local or state government has underfunded pensions that it us up to that government and its tax base to come up with the money. It shouldn't come from federal tax revenues.

Barbara Boxer is one of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate. She doesn't deserve re-election. Someone needs to put a video of these remarks into a campaign ad and just keep running it.