As Jay Leno would say, “You can’t write ‘em any better than this!”

According to Monday’s San Francisco Chronicle, Google is upset with the city government there for not moving fast enough in deploying wireless Net access. The deployment date has slid to 2007 and the city, at least according to Google, is making new and unreasonable demands.

“Every meeting is like the first,” according to the Google official in charge.

This is so ironic it’s almost beyond belief!

Could this be the same Google that’s lobbying for the Feds to start a massive new regulation of VPNs and the Internet? If that ever happens, our online experience will be answerable to a multi-headed Hydra of unelected regulators and judges that makes the San Francisco team look like a vaudeville act.

Google’s actions have the unmistakable markings of a company so entranced with its own virtue that it just assumes government regulators will bow down before it. (Remind anyone of…Martha Stewart maybe? …Although she did make blintzes on the Today Show this morning that looked delicious).

The problem is that making the Internet subject to the vagaries of lawmakers looking to protect a favored company means parochial concerns can quickly trump the greater good. As a former President might have put it, if Google thinks that San Francisco regulators are troublesome, “You ain’t seen nuthin’ yet!”