November 17, 2006 8:25 AM PST

FCC chairman earns second term

Kevin Martin Kevin Martin

The U.S. Senate late on Thursday voted unanimously to confirm Republican Kevin Martin for a second five-year term as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Martin, 39, has served as a commissioner since 2001 and has held the top leadership spot since 2005.

"I will continue to work to provide a regulatory environment that promotes competition and drives investment and innovation while protecting consumers and promoting public safety," Martin said in a statement Friday. A number of key decisions lie ahead, such as whether to approve and place conditions on an $80 billion merger between AT&T and BellSouth.

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Today's Republicans are just yesterday's Democrats. In the thirties they all would have been called socialists, for in the interim, the Republicrats have managed to enact the complete socialist agenda of that era. The fact that we have the gall to call the current system free enterprise is upsetting. To then proceed to blame free enterprise for the current economic craziness is proof of our madness.

Competition through regulation? To call that Orwellian, belabors the obvious, but I just can't help it.
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