The next few weeks are going to be
hellish for Federal Communications Chairman Tom Wheeler. Hot on the heels of his saving the internet, he'll have to justify himself to a bunch of raving lunatics.
"He's going to get grilled and he deserves it," said House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who's begun an investigation into alleged White House meddling with the FCC's decision-making and will host Wheeler's first Hill hearing on Tuesday. […]
Republicans will press Wheeler on the potential negatives of his plan, including telecom industry complaints that it will put a chill on broadband investment. In doing so, they'll try to chip away at one of Democrats' most significant policy achievements in the last several years—not unlike their perpetual effort to roll back parts of the Affordable Care Act, said Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.).
"Public pressure does affect agencies," Collins said. "Would they go back and reverse themselves? I'm not gonna say they would or wouldn’t. But this is part of the process of working and we've got to continue to do that."
What Chaffetz and Collins don't seem to realize is that it was indeed public pressure—well-informed unanimous public pressure—that achieved this result. And we've been at it a hell of a lot longer than Republicans have been trying to kill Obamacare.
Comcast is furious. They want to destroy our victory with their massive power in Congress. You won net neutrality. Now, are you ready to defend it? Call the congressional committees.