A Senate panel plans to investigate whether the White House inappropriately derailed a federal investigation into accusations that Google was stifling online competition.
Sen. Mike Lee, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary’s Antitrust Subcommittee, plans to contact the Federal Trade Commission, Google, and other online companies to discuss the issue, Emily Long, a spokeswoman for the Utah Republican, said Monday. The subcommittee has no plans yet to hold a hearing on the issue, she said.
If this is a genuine inquiry – and not just party politics, Democrats vs. Republicans or vice versa – then I’m all for it. This whole thing looks incredibly shady.
$50 says it’s political bullshit. This is the same Republican party who have on multiple occasions in the past YEAR colluded with foreign governments to interfere with President Obama’s foreign policy agenda, who have spent more time and money trying to defund Obamacare than has gone to NASA’s entire budget, and who have to either be creationists or lie about being creationists just to make it out of the primary elections.
I’m sure I’ll get down voted into oblivion, but…
You do realize that those same republicans won control of the house and senate in mid-terms on campaigns mostly promising to try and defund Obamacare and correct his foreign policy mistakes right? That is what they were elected to do. Why didn’t the mythical “democrat majority” show up to defeat them?
I’m just saying, you don’t have to like it, but elections have consequences… Whether you agree with the politics or not, they did win. If they did not spend most of their time and effort trying to do those things which you outlined the very same people who elected them (not you I’m sure) would be demanding their heads on plates.
My only point is that people constantly point out what they consider “bad behavior” in the other party without considering the fact that the “other party”s politics represents roughly 50% of the population. Not that 50% actually agree on any particular issue, but 50% will vote together for their party. There is no democrat majority, just like there is no republican majority. Its damn near 50/50, it has been for quite a while, and both parties thrive on this. It is the lock that holds us all down.
The way out of this is not blaming the other party, it is finding a way to diffuse the power of block voting and getting rid of the 2 party system…
http://www.fairvote.org/
I really hate the distinction that some people make about this… Why are creationist beliefs any more wacko than any other religions who believe in their own flavor of “flying spaghetti monster”? I’m just saying, try winning the democrat primary as an atheist and see how that works out for you. Fact is I am pretty confident we have already had quite a few atheist presidents (from both parties) – but they certainly will never admit it…
The President of the US is the only person allowed to conduct foreign policy. The Republicans who signed that letter should have been charged with treason for undermining the President on that front.
EDIT: Imagine what would have happened if congressmen had interfered with negotiations with Iran over the hostage crisis. They might not have ever come home. The Reps added tension to a conflict that didn’t need any more tension.
Edited 2015-03-31 04:09 UTC
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/world/asia/white-house-faults-gop…
You were saying…
Don’t know much about the other ones, but with Pelosi:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/was-cottons-stunt-unprecede…
You were saying…
You want to talk about treason???? I had friends dying in Vietnam while John Kerry was meeting secretly with the North Vietnamese in Paris in 1970.
There are still naive people left who genuinely believe that the president runs the show in the US of A, that he has something to say about home or foreign policy and that he is more than a marionette.
Polls show that the majority of people in the US like the Affordable Care Act. Regardless of that, nobody was elected to try to defund it. Your ignoring one huge factor in the elections — jerrymandering. These politicians, and it was Republicans, have made flipping districts extremely difficult, and for some nearly impossible, to do. That means a whole lot of the people who get elected are sure things. You can’t have a fair vote when the system has been so severely rigged. And you certainly won’t get fair representation.
You can hate Obama all you like but let’s not pretend he’s the worst thing since peas. There’s a reason why Republicans have to cheat & steal.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/obama_and_democrats_h…
Where are your numbers for that claim?
http://www.freedomworks.org/content/have-your-members-congress-sign…
This was from right before the midterms. 80 republicans signed that – and a large number of them ran on that fact and proclaimed it every opportunity that they got. It is in large part the reason many of them were elected…
Yes, a major component of the problem is gerrymandering. But that is absolutely not a “republican” thing – democrats have used that ploy themselves countless times over the last 100 years… Again, the problem isn’t the other party, it is that there are only 2 parties.
Read the site I linked to…
This is what party politics have come to… I make a completely rationale post explaining why Republicans do what they do and I’m labeled “an Obama hater”. I voted for the man…
Maybe not a majority. But other polls show that people will say they like the expansion of Medicare and Medicaid if the pollster was careful not to mention it was part of Obamacare to do so.
You answered your own question. The were the mid-terms.
The Republicans may have voted for trying to defund ACA, but the whole Republican domestic (and foreign) policy has always been block everything the Obama administration wanted to do. Most of those voters probably didn’t know what they don’t like about Obamacare but they knew they had to vote against it because Obama wants to “destroy America”.
So the most you can say is that Republicans voted against Obama, and it so happened that most of the Republican politicians were railing against ACA at the same time.
Hell, they vote against Net Neutrality and have hard-ons for Putin just because they hate Obama.
Two legs bad, four legs good…
But what we’re actually getting is complete political theater. If the Obama administration had moved to split up Google, they Republicans would have screamed bloody murder for interfering with the free market. They have shown little inclination to interfere with other monopolies. I think a genuine inquiry would be a good thing, but the only thing going on in Washington (about this and just about every other issue) is political theater to drive fund raising and rally the base. Incompetence all-round but I’ll have to say one party is more guilty of bold faced lying than the other (I’ll give you a hint which one – they think the earth is 6,000 years old).