Conflicting News On Gregg

Obama has the largest and most involved group of political operatives and tacticians there has ever been in the White House. We are getting two completely different stories on Judd Gregg leaving the Senate. Given the significance of getting to sixty in the Senate, is Obama throwing out the Gregg stuff to keep the media and Republicans from focusing in on Daschle?

If you read the Hill and Republicans, there is no way Judd Gregg leaves the Senate to join Obama's cabinet.

If you read ABC and Obama sources, the move could be announced as early as Monday.

Comments

[daveinboca]

I remember a creepy dude named Jeffords from Vermont in 2002 switching affiliation so as to achieve a committee chairmanship, so the so-called "moderate" New England RINOs have no real commitment in my mind to anything except their careers [Gregg may be a sure-fire loser in 2010], and that includes Sens. Snowe and Collins, both RINOs from Maine.

I can remember when New England stood for integrity instead of nanny-state entitlement begging.

[Dennis D]

The GOP and right wing bloggers should float a story that Obama cannot find any untainted Democrats thus forced to select Gregg. It seems every Democrat is tainted by some sort of scandal.

[TheSpartan]

Yes that's right...only Dems are tainted by scandal...

seriously though, Obama reaches across the aisle and this is the reaction...and you guys call HIM partisan?

[Lala]

White people are dying in Kentucky. Where's FEMA? Obama is watching football instead of taking care of the frozen white people.

[templar knight]

Obama plays, white people pay,
with their lives.

You Obama supporters will see a day of reckoning. Sooner than you think.

[Fred Beloit]

The President, according to the moonbats, is the first responder to natural disasters, if the President is a Republican. Democraticic Presidents are too busy pushing buying votes with spending programs to concern themselves with natural disasters. Don't you people read the big media?

[Fred Beloit]

Spart, it works like this:

President: " Hi, Mitch, just stopped by to tell you I am reaching out to you. See?. Here's my hand."

Senator: "Why thank you Mr. President. Shake. I appreciate your reaching out to us. I would like to talk with you about some changes we feel should be made to the stimulus bill."

Pres.: "Now hold on, Mitch. I won, remember? If this conversation is going to be about money and spending...well sorry, go see Nancy. I'm sure she is willing to work with you. She is bipartisan. She said so."

[Fred Beloit]

Oh, Spart, if you see Todd, there are a couple of messages for him under Dan's "Change" post.

[Lala]

Reiterating the truth - from the foreign press -

This is the sub-prime house that Barack Obama built
As a young but influential Chicago politician, the American president helped to create the housing bubble.

By Christopher Booker
Last Updated: 5:34PM GMT 31 Jan 2009

Comments 10 | Comment on this article

It is all very well for President Obama to vent his anger on all those US bankers who continued to claim billions of dollars in bonuses while expecting Washington to bail them out after the sub-prime mortgage scandal brought the banks to their knees. But conveniently overlooked has been the curious part Mr Obama himself played in the sub-prime debacle.

At the heart of it was a 1995 amendment to the Community Reinvestment Act which legally required banks to lend money to buy homes to millions of poor, mainly black Americans, guaranteed by the two biggest mortgage associations, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. And no one campaigned more actively for this change to the law than Mr Obama, as a young but already influential Chicago politician.

It was this Act which, more than anything, helped to create the US housing bubble, well beyond the point where it was obvious that hundreds of thousands of homeowners would be likely to default. And in 2005 no one more actively opposed moves to halt Fannie Mae's reckless guarantees than Senator Obama, as he was by then. As the official records show, no senator received more donations from Fannie Mae than he did (although Hillary Clinton ran him close). Thus no US politician arguably did more to promote the sub-prime disaster than the man now expected to pick up the pieces, Rather like Gordon Brown, really.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/4413546/This-is-the-sub-prime-house-that-Barack-Obama-built.html#postComment

[TheSpartan]

GOP members are welcome to join in the spirit of bi-partisanship by voting for the stimulus package.

[mrkwong]

What does Commerce Secretary get you that Senator doesn't? Is there greater opportunity to grub out a little more global baksheesh that way? Certainly it's not a post with a track record of advancing careers.

If you figured you were leaving the Senate anyway and a cabinet post was an opportunity to line up some clients for your future lobbying practice, then yeah, you take the job.

If you've got one gram of principle left in your soul, you suggest to Mr Obama that you can't associate yourself with a cabinet that's looking more like a cellblock every day.

[templar knight]

"...by voting for the stimulus package".

What stimulus package? If you're referring to the Leftwing payoff bill, no thanks. That is not a bi-partisan bill, idiot.

[TheSpartan]

It'll be bi-partisan when at least 5 republicans in the senate vote for it...idiot.

[templar knight]

Good luck in the Senate on your "bi-partisan bill".....idiot!

[13yankeebravo]

It's already bi-partisan, 12 Democrats reps voted against it.