Because it would have made it a slam-dunk for the Repugs to come out solidly FOR it.

The Net Neutrality issue is about the preservation of something that is NOT broken.

Saying something bad about PukeBagger Cruz?!?

I'm surprised Candy didn't cut him off, after such "baloney"!

Go Al!

Really?

I would have guessed a Wi-Fi system connected to home routers or direct connect.

all my computers at home are connected by ethernet, not wi-fi. Only cell phones are wi-fi.

Go do a speed test and see what you are missing by connecting wi-fi.

...not recovered yet. You listen to him but his words are just "off" and strange.

since he moved to the Senate he has had so many corporate scripts or post it notes to memorize he gets confused about which language he is speaking.
Dumb or Dumbest.

Inside though, the world and reality is all about them and their goals. Nothing and Nobody else matters.
Some Psychopaths have been pretty damn good about pulling it off. IMO, Ted just isn't smart enough. He plays the game, like poker, but has too many "Tells".

he was bombarded even by wingers saying they were with the President on this?

mahalo cal

The only way paying a premium to "go faster" works is by slowing down other traffic, an inherently anti-competitive practice.

so many of our Dem senators stay away from the TV talking heads. Sen. Franklin has been as quite as a mouse.

Like the one in my state who just lost - I know more and heard more from Elizabeth Warren than either one of my two Dem senator(s) in 6 and 4 years.

I could be wrong, but I don't think he's ever been interviewed by anyone other than the media in Minnesota. He kept a low profile and quietly went about his business.

Now that he has won re-election (handily so) it's time for him to "come out of the weeds" and start hammering on the right.

our other Dem Senator and was head of the DSCC made his first TV appearance on Dem bloodbath night for the first time on MSNBC - Rachel's show.

He has spent time over at CNN and FOX.

He and Udall refused to come talk to David Sirota when he had a radio show here, but they'd run over to the wingnut radio stations.

Not talking to their base and always trying to appear moderate by hanging with the nuts is infuriating and it pisses me off.

He's not crazy or stupid -- he's cunning and clever. The problem with Cruz is that he's utterly dishonest.

Every word he says is a conscious deliberate lie to deceive the rubes in order to achieve political power.

He's a dangerous demagogue. We're lucky that he's so goddam smarmy.

I wish the English language had a better word for someone who is Nasty and Hated. Most swear words are not very accurate... There is not even a decent Japanese word I could use.. maybe
zurui or kuchikitanai. (Meanings located on the internet)

アホたれ

粗大ごみ

たわごとの愚かクソの山

You nailed it.

I wish he would come off as smarmy to his supporters. But his supporters probably also support TV evangelists so...........they are gullible in the extreme.

I'm one that says he's crazy but you are correct...and maybe this is the message that we should be talking about.

Ted Cruz seems to have forgotten about Enron.

All of Californians served by private companies were being charged exorbitant prices for electricity thanks to the cheating and fraud of Enron, a basically unprincipled Texas company that deliberately set out to cheat and defraud Californians and others.

All of Californians SERVED BY PRIVATE COMPANIES. THOSE OF US SERVED BY THE LOS ANGELES PUBLICLY CONTROLLED WATER AND POWER COMPANY WERE NOT CHEATED AND DEFRAUDED.

Ted Cruz has his facts wrong. Our public company provided our electricity for less and was honest about it. Private, corporate greed is not always the best way to provide basic services to people.

Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is not.

And Franken is right. Net neutrality is the status quo. It should remain the status quo. We don't need to change to fast-track for the big guys. Fast track for the big guys will IMPEDE innovation even under Ted Cruz's own rather faulty reasoning.

Normally, it just right wingers 24/7 on Sunday cable news,

...that Cruz is funnier in real life than HE was on SNL! K&R

Cruz either doesn't understand or what I believe, he is purposely lieing using scare tactics to confuse the American people. Cruz is just another lieing, thieving, cheating, stealing republican killer of America. He like ALL republicans and 80% of the democrats (DINO) want to ruin America.

demonstrating that they should have slower internet just like they should be paying higher rates for health care, and not ever getting Social Security. It's called baffling them with bullshit. Confuse the issue, then have Fox news push their point of view 24/7 for a week or two. The baggers will fall into line ....cuz freedom.