VatorNews - Will Google be broken up? Shades of IBM?: "Christine Varney, nominated by President Obama to be the next U.S. antitrust chief, may be out to break up Google. Or at the least, she seems to be letting it known that she'll be keeping a close eye on it. Varney has described Google as a 'monopoly' that will be as powerful in the computing world as Microsoft was in the software."
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I hope the Obama administration has sense enough to leave Google alone. She said this back on June 19, before the stock market tanked. But the information on Christine Varney from her law firm's website shows that she is a major Democratic Party figure who has the clout to move the federal government against Google...and showing what may be a previous experience with Google that calls her objectivity into question:

"Christine has provided antitrust, competition policy, and regulatory advice to a variety of companies, including eBay, Fox Interactive Media/MySpace, Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., DoubleClick, Ernst & Young, EMI, Intelius, Advertising.com, American Hospital Association, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, Dow Jones & Company, AOL, Synopsys, Compaq Computer, Gateway, Netscape, The Liberty Alliance, and Real Networks....During her U.S. government tenure, Christine served as a Federal Trade Commissioner from 1994 to 1997. At the Federal Trade Commission, she was a leading official on a wide variety of Internet issues....In addition, she served as Chief Counsel to the Clinton/Gore Campaign, General Counsel to the 1992 Presidential Inaugural Committee, and General Counsel to the Democratic National Committee from 1989 to 1992."

Now check out this quote from the article I linked to, quoting her June 19 talk:
"I’m deeply troubled by their acquisition of DoubleClick, and I’m deeply troubled by their deal with Yahoo."

She is "deeply troubled" by their acquisition of DoubleClick, a company she "provided antitrust, competition policy, and regulatory advice to." Did she advise Doubleclick about defending against their acquisition by Google? If so, I think she isn't the person who should be deciding whether the feds should take on Google.