Rockefeller to Chair Senate Commerce Committee?

Remember when the Senate Commerce Committee was fun? We got to hear crazy utterings like, “The Internet is a series of tubes!”

But things turned boring when Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, took over from Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, as chairman.

Perhaps the committee — which oversees all things communications, including the FCC — will liven up at last. Reports are circulating this week that Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.V., will replace Inouye. (Inouye is moving to another committee.) Rockefeller is said to be passionate about broadband deployment, privacy issues and long walks on the beach … kidding on that last one.

Anyway, matters can never be dull with a Rockefeller involved, right? Here’s hoping.