Saying “I made a mistake”, Commerce Secretary nominee Sen. Judd Gregg has withdrawn his nomination. No kidding Judd. Most of us were wondering how long you were going to take before you opened the morning paper and saw what the “new tone” and the “bipartisan spirit” looked like. Anyone listening could have told you that “We want everyone to agree” meant “Agree with me” and bipartisan meant “Just quit arguing with me. I won.”
The withdrawal drew a testy reaction from the White House, suddenly coping with the third Cabinet withdrawal of Barack Obama’s young presidency. Gregg cited “irresolvable conflicts” with Obama’s handling of the economic stimulus and 2010 census in a statement released without warning by his Senate office. Later, at a news conference in the Capitol, he sounded more contrite. “The president asked me to do it,” he said of the job offer. “I said, ‘Yes.’ That was my mistake.”
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We can understand that Sen. Gregg. When the President asks you to do something, you say “YES!” But there are deeper moral questions, such as, “Should you do this?” and “is this good for the country?” We’re glad to see that those questions finally came to the forefront.
Seems like every other day we’re hearing about how someone is packing up their desk and moving out before they get settled. I expect to hear about another nominee by the first of next week. Dont look for it to be Hillary though. She’ll stick in there like Martin Bormann, only slipping out into the darkness after the Great Leader is gone.
More ideological, partisan, nonobjective trip from Mr. Crowley.
I mean really, does it take you about a minute to rub 2 neurons together and come up with this stuff?
*Never send a conservative Republican to do a Liberal Democrats work! They want the money up
front…or they don’t play!
This is “black=white,” “war=peace,” “freedom=slavery” propaganda that is dishonest.
What bitter, divisive, intellectually bankrupt drivel.
Obama will eventually learn that the GOP has obstruction as its only goal now.
The Republican Party needs to be eliminated.
They serve no useful purpose. There’s no reasoning with them. They’ll gladly destroy the country if they think it will return them to power.
I can clearly imagine Red Vixen’s RABID response had GWB pulled the census from the Commerce Dept. to place it under the direct control of the White House.
“The Republican Party needs to be eliminated.”
A splendid totalitarian response from RV.
Red,
No need to eliminate them. The Reeps are doing a fine job of eliminating themselves.
Red Vixen is right, the Republican Party is full of liars who would sell their country out for a little power (and power = money).
GOP; Greed Over Patriotism.
Red,
No need to eliminate them. The Reeps are doing a fine job of eliminating themselves.
Absolutely, Art. Just stand clear of them -it’s going to keep being as messy as possible.
There’s some moderates that I feel sorry for, because some of them seem to be trying to figure out how to “reason” with their side of the aisle – and of course reasonableness is just not in the mix for the die-hards.
The politically astute Republicans have already fled the party for other parties so that they can possibly get elected to office again. The group that is left in the GOP are pathetic obstructionists.
I heard a few of them were going to turn down stimulus headed for their own states based on PRINCIPLE! Oh, I’d love to see that – a politician turning down help just to show off.
2010 can’t get here soon enough – there is going to be another outsurge of incumbents again as the GOP countinues to “not get it”. Gingrich’s past efforts are laid waste by reminant whiners.
anonster: Greedy Obstructionist Party 😉
The Republican Party isn’t going anywhere. They will change before they die, there are many moderate Republicans that have not jumped to the Democratic party myself being one of them. No third party has the national infrastructure to compete at the level the GOP is still able to. Maybe someday a long way down the road but a long long way. Maybe it’s time to wake up and join the real world.
Donno, Em. It looks like the GOP has four mastheads in competition for leadership: Palin, Steele, Limbaugh, Duke. All radical fringe influences that are bound to help continue the splinter of the party. And the moderates have to keep side stepping the radicals who target dissention. Look what the democrats are doing now:
February 13, 2009
Categories: States
Congress to governors: Use it or lose it
A devilishly clever last-minute insert to the House version of the stimulus bill has made it through the conference report — a requirement that governors spend their stimulus allocations within 45 days.
The provision isn’t likely to have a real-world impact, but it forces Republican governors who opposed the stimulus (e.g. South Carolina’s Mark Sanford) and many other GOP governors who sat on the fence for fear of bucking their party — to publicly accept or decline the aid.
And when they do accept it — and it’s hard to see a scenario where they wouldn’t given their deficits — Democrats get to call them craven or hypocritical or both.
In the unlikely event they do reject the money, authority for spending the cash would revert to State legislatures, who would likely be under even more political pressure to spend it than chief executives.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0209/Congress…