Oh crap
With Verizon on one side and Google on the other, is there a way they can both lose?
In a rare legislative victory for the Obama administration, Senate Republicans failed to pass a resolution to express that body's disapproval of the Federal Communications Commission's network neutrality regulations. The FCC's "Preserving the Open Internet" rules were proposed last December, made official when they were …
The truth is corporate interests have their eyes yet on monetizing the Internet but putting virtual toll booths everywhere they can. In their minds, they already own it and you're going to pay for it.
So they'll keep trying, again and again, as long as it takes and eventually the WILL get what they want. That's just how it is... they'll try again next year, and the next. Will have someone add it to the back pages of some needed bill, or will pay enough people off... but they'll get it.
It's inevitable.
You left out the fact that the courts have already ruled that the FCC was not empowered by congress to regulate the internet.
I read that in many sites on the Internet including El Reg so it is surprising not to see it mentioned in the article.
Another article on the background.
http://biggovernment.com/smotley/2011/11/10/will-senators-reassert-their-constitutional-authority-or-capitulate-to-obamas-authoritarianism/