While a decision against Comcast's dubious throttling practices is expected within hours, House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a letter yesterday, Thursday, studded with weak Republican clichés which claim that the FCC is improperly inserting itself into a self- governing entity.

Boehner and other Republicans got their facts all wrong. While trying to protect their beloved industries at the expense of the American people, Boehner and Co. allege that barring traffic discrimination "hijacks the evolution of the Internet."

In fact, the companies are trying to hijack and stall the evolution of the Internet. Our country is left behind in high-speed Internet lines and most European and Asian developed countries have significantly better connections that the very country where Internet was invented, precisely because Comcast and many others like them are trying to maximize profits at all expenses.

It's time that ISPs start working continuously on improving the infrastructure and stop just charging money for technology which was put in place a decade ago. This is why the United States needs Internet traffic to be unregulated, forcing ISPs to build up a high-performance network rather than throwing money away on traffic-blocking technologies.

Rumors are that three of the five FCC commissioners, including Chairman Kevin Martin, want Comcast punished, while the two remaining Republicans are expected to vote with their colleagues. All five need to unanimously support net neutrality in order for the Federal Communications Commission to impose its decision on the ISP.