Posts Tagged ‘Gregg’

This is awesome! From the cartoonist at Roll Call.

Senator Judd Gregg has withdrawn his name from nomination to be Secretary of Commerce.  Both Drudge and the AP story play it as Obama “burned” and that it came as “a surprise” respectively.

I don’t buy it.  Obama and his Chief of Staff cut their political teeth in the Chicago political machine, and this has the look of bus tires over the back of Gregg.  This is all about Gregg not getting in line while he still had a vote and supporting the Administration’s number one priority: the stimulus package.

Obama’s and Emanual’s political instincts are excellent, but their egos are blinding them from the benefit they would have enjoyed having the Republican Gregg in the Administration.  As they say, politics is a contact sport – which includes busses to be thrown under.