"The Buck Stops at the FCC"-(Net Neutrality)

[merrily]

30. Excellent point, but the Ike Warren thing was very different.

California did not go blue until the around Reagan time.

Warren had been Repoublican AG of California. As such, he had been most responsible for rounding up the Japanese on California's exceptionally long stretch of Pacific Coast. Most of the Japanese who were in camps had been physically put there under Warren's direction. (and, to the eternal shame of our party, FDR's order.)

Ike of course was a Republican general in that same war. So, Ike did not put in a very important position a man who was very different from him, who he had reason to know would behave like a liberal. While Warren sat on the court, Ike tried to get him to see the point of the Southern white supremacists. And, when asked what he regretted most about his 8-year term in office, Ike replied "Nominating Warren for the Supreme Court."

So, Ike never chose someone who he knew in advance was not in his party AND 180 degrees away from what Ike said he wanted for America.

Obama promised net neutrality and also promised to appoint to the FCC Commissioners who also wanted net neutrality. True, he never promised to appoint Democrats, but I think most of us assumed that. (Silly us.) Instead, Obama appointed to head the FCC a man Obama knew up front was a Republican venture capitalist who was "not opposed" to tiers, instead of a fierce net neutrality advocate, despite a specific promise.

I can't imagine that Wheeler in general or his current net policy are the same degree of shock and massive disappointment to Obama that Warren and school integration turned out to be for Ike.