Someone probably explained this somewhere and I missed it; but

[snot]

why again did Pres. Obama have to appoint Wheeler to head up the FCC? In his second term, why can't Obama replace Wheeler?

[blkmusclmachine]

1. Obama agrees with Wheeler???

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2. Stealth obviousness abounds. n/t

[Maedhros]

3. Nothing prevents Obama from firing Wheeler tomorrow and replacing him with someone acceptable.

But he won't, because he knows there are no repercussions for continued Democratic kow-towing to Wall Street.

[sabrina 1]

4. Probably for the same reason he appointed Clapper. And Hagel. And Gates. And Comey

And all the other Republicans he has had in his cabinet?

Maybe he thinks Republicans are better at running things like Security and Defense and Finance.

I know, it's a question I've asked many times. One Republican I could see but so many of them?

It's not as if it has helped him get the Republicans to behave themselves.

I can't answer that question but my opinion is that at the top levels of our government party affiliation doesn't matter doesn't matter. Wall St and the MIC appear to be running things.

[grasswire]

5. the first task of a community organizer is to seek consensus

...and I suspect that explains a lot about Obama. Trouble is, that consensus is a concept unknown to right wing ideologues.

[Skittles]

6. so WE knew consensus is a concept unknown to the right wing

but Obama did not?

[grasswire]

7. good question, Skittles

some think the Hawaiian mindset may have played into the dynamic as well. Laid back, chill. Qualities that make him very attractive and charismatic, but they are qualities that the right perceives as weakness ripe for exploitation in one way or another.

[Skittles]

8. it's not really a question

because all thinking people know the answer