Barack Obama

The law is the law. Granted right wingers will bend it as far as they can or interpret it to their liking, but ultimately, they can't change it.

These are huge bureaucracies and old, so appointing the most wild left wing radical will do nothing to change the law, either.

At the bottom of it, these people just wish our system weren't large and bureaucratic, or even Democratic. They want it to be easy to change, and it is not for a reason.

I don't know why Obama would leave these offices to Republicans. My guess is they can run them the best. Obama may care more about that than politics or using these offices as rewards for supporters - something the media would make a huge deal about.

I don't see the FCC or FBI as independent of the government. They are part of the executive branch. The Federal Reserve is a shadowy thing I don't completely understand. Likely it needs to be that way, though.