The recently installed Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH), has no intention of finding any compromise on network neutrality. If he can't override the new rules, he will work to defund their enforcement. And if that doesn't work, he will continue railing against a "government takeover of the Internet" in speeches until something gets done.

Boehner gave his first speech outside of Washington DC as Speaker of the House yesterday, appearing at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Nashville Tennessee. The speech moved quickly from a discussion of that morning's sermon text (“No man can serve two masters”) to a discussion of God's love of humility to an assertion that America was founded on said humility and that this in turn led to the freedoms that Americans enjoy.

Those freedoms are now “under attack by power structure in Washington populated with regulators who have never set foot inside a radio station or television studio." That's right—net neutrality is Boehner's top bogeyman, reminding us just how seriously Republicans take the issue.

The Congressional fight over net neutrality looks set to be a brutal one. From the speech:

The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller, and potentially running roughshod over local broadcasters who have been serving their communities with free content for decades. At the end of the last Congress, some members of Congress sought a compromise on net neutrality that would give Washington temporary control of the Internet while we sort this all out. As far as I'm concerned, there is no compromise or middle ground when it comes to protecting our most basic freedoms. So our new majority in the House is committed to using every tool at our disposal to fight a government takeover of the Internet We're also going to do what we can to see that no taxpayer dollars are used to fund these net neutrality rules.

In the audience was Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), the member of Congress who has already introduced legislation to strip the FCC of any net neutrality powers.

Last December, Blackburn compared the FCC to “vampires” who want nothing more than to leap onto the backs of unsuspecting American businesses and sink their fangs deep into the sweet, sweet lifeblood.

Among her charges, Blackburn claimed that the FCC was “effectively nationalizing the Web” with its new rules. Fortunately, the Republicans were wielding the garlic and a wooden stake.

“Industry and creative content providers who were coerced into this deal by an over zealous FCC Chairman should take heart," she wrote. "Like the breaking of dawn, the new Congress will prove a swift antidote to the federal bloodsucker you found at your throat this Christmas."

With Boehner and Blackburn leading the charge on net neutrality, possibilities for any sort of compromise agreement appear remote. The real battle will take place in the Senate, where Democrats maintain a majority, but are not all united behind network neutrality, despite President Obama's campaign promise to support the principle.