Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
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Re: Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
#2The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways.
The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
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#3The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways. The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
Not sure if even that's a real change. Since a new party president with their congress can change the law again. The only way to do this correctly is with bi-partisan support which seems to be lacking on more and more issues these days.
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#4The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways. The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
Not sure if even that's a real change. Since a new party president with their congress can change the law again. The only way to do this correctly is with bi-partisan support which seems to be lacking on more and more issues these days.
This is true. But bi-partisanship appears to be dead now. So the closest we have is a trifecta government passing something and then hoping there is a long enough time until the opposing party gets a trifecta so that the change sticks.
Look at the ACA. It's been around long enough now that so far most attempts by the other party have failed to overturn it. But you're right, it's still under attack. So we shall see.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure if even that's a real change. Since a new party president with their congress can change the law again. The only way to do this correctly is with bi-partisan support which seems to be lacking on more and more issues these days.
This is true. But bi-partisanship appears to be dead now. So the closest we have is a trifecta government passing something and then hoping there is a long enough time until the opposing party gets a trifecta so that the change sticks. Look at the ACA. It's been around long enough now that so far most attempts by the other party have failed to overturn it. But you're right, it's still under attack. So we shall see.
Laws that give out free stuff are especially sticky.
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#6No winner has been declared yet.
Re: Bye Bye, Ajit Pai: FCC Boss Will Soon Lose Top Spot
#7The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways. The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
Case in point: Senate Democrats learned this the hard way with the filibuster. However, I contend that even when there is total unity in the government, real change does not happen. For example, when the republicans held all three we did not see overturning of Roe v. Wade, or any of the doomsday scenarios we were promised. The most that happened under democrat three rule was a deeply flawed health insurance disaster.
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#8The problem with these rules made by executive fiat is that the next admin can just reverse them. And that cuts both ways. The only way to get real change these days is having Congress and the President be the same party, which really is a shame.
Not sure if even that's a real change. Since a new party president with their congress can change the law again. The only way to do this correctly is with bi-partisan support which seems to be lacking on more and more issues these days.
I don't think it's a bad thing that the will of the voters can lead to changes in law.
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#9It can't happen soon enough, but we need better laws, so that not so much is left up to the whims of political appointees.
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#10Why does a US President have so much power in seemingly appointing incompetent political hacks or party donors to all sorts of important roles ???.
In most cases a country has a professional civil service where political hackery are kept to a minimum and policy making is decided by the ministers and it all filters down.