GOBP = GOTP

Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010, 10:46 am by GottaLaff
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You’d think that the motley Tea Potty bunch would rally around equality for all on the InterWebs. Ha!

No, they’re nothing more than the GOBP in funny hats who needed a new brand name behind which to crawl.

I say we repeal the Tea Baggers:

Tea Party groups are staking out an anti-regulatory position in the fight over net neutrality rules for phone and cable companies.

A coalition that included 35 Tea Party groups sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Wednesday urging the agency not to boost its authority over broadband providers through a controversial process known as reclassification.

Ooooo, they’re shaking and quaking in their tea pots over b-b-big b-b-bad g-g-g-government p-p-p-power.

If President Obama would only resume his “smart government, not big government” routine, the Dem message might get some traction. Instead, we’re fighting the wrong fight. We’re allowing the other side to frame the argument… again.

Do these idiots understand that without government regulation (to them, that means “power”), they’re handing even more power to gigantic corporations who are already drunk with the stuff, who don’t care a bit about them, who will just give them more of what we’ve had for the past 8 years, times infinity?

The free-speech argument holds that, by interfering with how phone and cable companies deliver Internet traffic, the government would be thwarting the free-speech rights of providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Maybe I should rethink a few things. Maybe I should leave Mr. Laffy for a wealthy, attractive corporation who can give me my own corporate gas guzzler, a cushy mansion, a new yacht, and all the offshore bank accounts I could ever ask for.  After all, corporations are legally people now. Had I known that years ago, I might have dated Comcast.

But I digress. The topic is net neutrality and its new fawning groupie, the Tea Potty.

GOBP, meet your mirror image, the  GOTP.

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  • http://amerinz.com/ Arthur (AmeriNZ)

    The problem we have on this issue isn't just that the other side has framed the debate, it's also that—if we're honest—ordinary people have no idea what Net Neutrality is or why they should care about it. I bet that many people who DO know what it is don't fully understand what the issue is. This is when framing really works best—when ordinary people don't understand, or completely understand, an issue.

    Seems to me that we ought to ignore the Tea-publican Party's propaganda machine and its “all government regulation is evil” mantra, and instead focus only on what NON-neutrality would mean for ordinary people. We can't re-frame the debate if we take on that mighty propaganda machine because we'll be accepting their framing. Instead, we need to ignore it and force them debate us on our terms.

    Fighting them—on our terms or theirs—will be hard, but we have to try.