The GOP's Next Example Of President Obama's Executive Overreach

Republicans have lost the network neutrality fight. But that doesn't mean they'll stop talking about the issue. The Federal Communications Commission is on the precipice of voting to enact White House-backed regulations that would reclassify broadband Internet as a utility and block so-called "fast lanes" on mobile and Internet devices.

Republicans in Congress and on the 2016 campaign trail already have shown an eagerness to portray the vote as another example of executive overreach by the Obama Administration. They plan to continue slamming the president for avoiding Congress in a similar vein to recent executive actions on immigration, Cuba, and environmental regulations. These kind of headline-grabbing "King Obama" attacks underscore a belief that if Republicans can't win a debate about net neutrality, they can at least win by using it as another prop to denounce what they see as a series of cavalier power grabs by the Obama Administration.