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Executive Action’s Shifting Sands – and the Power of Cronyism

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A DC Lobbyist Driving to Work

Network Neutrality is idiotic crony policy that DC’s Big Tech cronies have spent a decade-plus trying to jam down our throats.

The DC cronies first briefly tried the proper way to impose Net Neutrality.  Which is to pass law through Congress.  That got them absolutely nowhere.

So the DC cronies reverted to their innate authoritarianism.  And started having unelected Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioners illegally jam it down our throats.  Illegally?  Because the FCC commissioners can not do it unless and until Congress passes law authorizing them to do it.

Except (almost always) the FCC only has a Democrat-commissioner majority – when there is a Democrat president.  And what a Democrat FCC does?  A Republican FCC can un-do.

A reversal lesson President Donald Trump will again learn about his many second-term executive orders.  This style of unilateral policy-making is built upon shifting sands.  Even if you can get this or that judge to allow it?  The next opposing-party administration can reverse most or all of it.  And it undoubtedly will. (more…)

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