Judd Gregg Humiliates President Obama With His Shifty Quitting
Yesterday afternoon New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg abruptly announced his withdrawal from consideration as President Obama's Commerce Secretary, dropping the bomb moments before Obama was set to give a stimulus-stumping speech in Illinois.
Who knew a plainspoken, taciturn, thrifty Yankee could be so underminery?
Gregg cited "irresolvable conflicts," stemming largely from his conservative fiscal concerns with the economic stimulus package, now in conference committee, which Gregg did not vote on.
[...] "You can't have a blocking back who only pulls out for every second or third play," Gregg said.
Not sure I'm familiar with that quaint New England aphorism, but I get his drift. Well, hey, Gregg didn't care much for Commerce in the first place.
He probably didn't even want the nomination…
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Thursday Gregg had initiated discussions over the position.
So if I read this correctly, Gregg jockeyed for a job at a department he once voted to abolish, missed the news that there's a massive stimulus bill in the works, realized at the last minute that leading the "Commerce" department might involve interactions with "spending," and decided that quitting entirely was better than trying to work through differences with a Democratic administration.
There's only one word for a guy who pulls something like that.
Hero.
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The US is 12 trillion in debt now. We will have to go bankrupt, to wipe out that debt. This stimulus is shameful. We need a new congress at least every 8 years. Senators and House Rep staying in congress for 36 years is breeding ground for coruption.
If we don't get a Commerce Secretary soon, the economy will go down the toilet. What? It's already in the toilet? Then I suggest Joe the Plumber for Commerce Sec.
…so that Obama could slant the Census in favor of Democrats
Do you mean be doing something nefarious like counting all of the people? Next thing you know Obama will let register voters actually vote, like this were a real Republic or something.
Damn you Obama!
Judd Gregg realized that Obama really wanted him out of the way so that a Democrat could win his Senate seat in 2010.
He also realized that the Obama administration took the Census away from Commerce Department control so that Obama could slant the Census in favor of Democrats
Thank God for men of integrity like Judd Gregg.
With Obama the only change we will get is more free spending Democrats.
Obama's Stimulus package is a joke. Obama had the opportunity to do something historic, such as working to make this country less dependent on foreign oil, instead we spend only 10 per cent of almost 800 billion on rebuilding infrastructure.