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GREGG WITHDRAWS: What the hell? Token cabinet Republican #3, Commerce Secretary-designate Judd Gregg, has suddenly withdrawn, according to your favorite Matt Drudge. His reason? That he doesn’t agree with Obama on basic economics. Another win for the vetting team! [Drudge]
4:45 PM
on Thu February 12 2009
By
Jim Newell
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Ha ha — Gregg didn’t pay his taxes!
Taxes? Illegal nanny? Toilet homosex? Place your bets!
Time to grab some hose, Judd.
The Republicans strong-armed him. This just makes them and him look more stupid and meanspirited than they already do.
Or, he has an underage male lover who didn’t pay his taxes on his abortions.
The census?? Who the fuck cares. At least he attained the highest current Republical honor– he’ll get good press from Drudge and Rush…
Pore Jud.
P.S. Seeing as LaHood is an absolutely useless, clueless pile of elephant droppings at the Transportation Department, perhaps we could consider staffing the Commerce post with a non-Moran (i.e. non-GOPer).
COITUS INTERRUPTUS
Also a win for Gregg’s vetting ability. “Now let me see here, who is this young Mr. Obama, and wherever will I find out anything about him or what he believes in?”
Disaster narrowly diverted.
Of all the economists in all the universities in all the world, why pick an investment banker to lead us out a crisis created by investment bankers?
Does it really matter?
Gregg didn’t vote against the Stimulus as the Viagra Nonuts Limpballs and Repubes wished. They’ll just find some guy who no one gives a shit about to make Sec of Com.
somehow, this is michael phelps fault..
He was just jealous that Charlie Crist got hold of Hopey’s hose first!
AxmxZ: I’d say, this far into the vetting process, that he forgot to pay taxes on his illegal, underage male nanny with whom he had sex in a public toilet at the National Cathedral.
Or something similar.
Quick, who can think of anything that the Commerce Department ever did? Just appoint Pauly Shore and be done with it.
WH: “Damn!!! Where the h**k are we going to find another GOP senator with a Dem governor as gullible as Gregg?”
I nominate Dr. Nouriel Roubini…the St. Tropez partying Dr. Doom with his own little entourage of Facebook hangers-on.
If by “disagree…on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census…” he means got caught cornholin’ Peruvian midgets on tape, then I totes understand.
Oh Noez!!!!1!!!! The GOP Dork Squad must’ve threatened to take back his Secret Repubtard Fascist Theocracy Decoder Ring if he didn’t stop talking to the Cool Kids at the other cafeteria table!
He wouldn’t vote on the stimulus that he would’ve had something to do with managing. Can Obama stop toying with this bipartisanship nonsense and get on with shoving the Congressional Republicans into the oubliette they so richly deserve?
WTF …… Another one that bite the dust…..
Barry……. Who’s next….. Remember I got number 263236569983…..
You’all pick a number …..I know eventually some one will be nominated. Including 4-years Mr McDonals dude. I bet he is next in the list
Christ, the republicans are really going for this 30-year-old tax-and-spend branding. Good luck with that when there’s economists with blogs.
Is he going to have to crawl, weeping, to kiss Rush Limbaugh’s feet?
Gregg must have just figured out that Obama is a secret librul Muslin.
Republicans would have filibustered his confirmation anyway.
National Unity My Ass - NUMA. The fat kid with the headphones from youtube fame can sing at their convention.
a dead girl or a live boy - which is it?
This is a pretty public affront to the Obama admin. Judd Gregg will wake up tomorrow to find a dead fish in his bed and the tip of his middle finger missing.
He’s shocked, shocked to discover that Obama expected him to support the Democratic initiatives of the Democratic President and the Democratic Congress. That or the the gay sex dungeon.
SayItWithWookies: Win for making me look up oubliette.
Or maybe it was the FREE TRUCKNUTZ FOR ALL INTERSTATE TRUCKERZ element of the the stim-pack he didn’t cotton to.
Now they can put Judge Dred there, who they shoulda got in the first place.
I AM THE LAW.
hockeymom: Roubini should hold all his official meetings in his room with the Poon Wall of Vagina.
Heh heh, this is cool
I AM THE LAW.
Take the hint, Barry: fuck bipartisanship. Steamroll those GOP SOBs.
apparently republicans back home in NH made too much fun of him for palling around with barry, he cried and decided he wanted to go back home to the senate where he can practice being a better douche and not get reelected a few years from now.
barry should just give up getting a commerce secretary, and go ahead and appoint that puppy now.
I think it’s about time for Obama to cock-slap these Republicans. He’s been way too nice to people who really don’t deserve it. They deserve 10 inches of Kenyan/Hawaiian uncut Muslim vengeance.
Whats the CEnsus problem?
Politial GOP posturing is all this is
I’m thinking this has more to do with the 2010 elections than with repudiating Obama. I’m thinking Gov. whateverthehellhisnameisthathewastoochickentofollowhisconscienceandappointaDemocrat probably has feelers out about taking the seat himself and dispensing with the ludicrous formality of having any Republican input in anything forever.
CorkPopper: SayItWithWookies: Win for making me look up oubliette.
*raises hand*
Uh, me too. Some kind of dungeon thingy, right?
snideinplainsight: my bad, I thought you said Dred Scott
Judge Dredd, see, here’s what he says, like, all the time, heh heh, just, really loud;
I AM THE LAW.
His reason? That he doesn’t agree with Obama on basic economics.
Make that “doesn’t understand basic economics.”
digibal235: Oh my! Do you really think it’s 10 inches?
This is worse than when “Macho Man” Randy Savage turned heel on Hulk Hogan by hitting him in the head with a crowbar.
“Why… that’s Mitch McConnell’s music!!!!”
TexasCowGirl: And is that really punishment for Republicans?hobospacejungle: What they said. The wiki entry was very informative.
Gregg must have woke up next to a severed horse’s head — a little reminder about who brung him to the dance from Newt, Rush, Sean & gang.
TexasCowGirl: As it is always with Barry and his fans, the key word is “hope.”
Great, now my cable new will be liberally peppered with pundits breathlessly proclaiming the new depths of failure to which the Obama administration has fallen. And I’m just talking about CNN.
What a dick! You know, he even looks like a penis. And what about the person they appointed to fill his seat (fill his seat…..heh heh….)? What the fuck is she supposed to do now? Form a crying circle with Caroline Kennedy?
Uncle Al: FTW! National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is in Commerce, for god knows what reason. So Sec Comm is Lord of Weather and Fish. Important job. With Pauly’s experience in BioDome, I think he’s the man for the job.
Crystal Pepsi will be the next candidate.
Doing a heckuva job on that cabinet, Brownie
Oh Judgy boy couldn’t stand the thought of not being invited anymore to all those sexy buttsecks partays them repugs love to throw 4 times week! Vetting? Yeah, right!
Get ready for Gregg’s Republican Manifesto with his upcoming “speech”. I bet he has a orange jumpsuit on reading his speech in a robotic monotone. “I denounce Satan & his poicies blah blah blah.” Republicans are such sore losers it’s beyond belief. Waaaaaaaaaaaa!
LARRY CRAIG FOR COMMERCE SUCKRETERY!!!
TexasCowGirl: has got to be at least 12! Anyone takin bets???!!!
I’d be cool if he said it really really loud, like this
I AM THE LAW.
I disagree Jim. This is not a vetting mix-up, this is a I-don’t-have-any-balls problem. Poor Judd is toast. He must be caught in the speaking out of both sides of his mouth Repubfail tactics. Goldwater weenie. Heavy-nauseating meh!
This tax and spend meme is old-old-old. Agree it’s time for Barry to get out the steamroller.
Secretary of the Water Carrier. He’s divorcing his wife too!
I’d like to thank my mistress…..
And the Acadamy
Gawd! Gregg is talking like Juaquin Phoenix on Letterman.
Special comment from KO tonight: Fuck off and don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Serolf Divad: Exactly. It should be obvious by now that these mollusks have zero intention of doing anything but pursuing their insurgency (thanks, Mullah “Pete” Sessions!).
If double consonants are the standard- Judd Gregg out Puff Diddy in! Who’s with me?
snideinplainsight:
Alexander Haig when Reagan was shot. I’m the Prez!
Nerdalicious: Awww. I find his bumbling “my bad” speech endearing. He actually seems like a nice enough guy, since he’s falling over himself to compliment Hopey and admitting that he was kind of a dumbass to agree to the position without thinking it through.
madtowngooner: Repubsnots are circling the wagons. The evil congresspeople made the poor bankers cry yesterday and they don’t like it.
“I couldn’t be Judd Gregg” means I couldn’t be a team player because I, like my Repubtwit brethren, believe being a team player means taking my marching orders from others, not putting my dissenting voice articulately and persuasively into the mix.
Fivetree: Ooh, yes, I hear that Caroline is available.
digibal235: Thou shalt not speak an evil about the NUMA, and its legendary leader, Mr Dirk Pitt, who single-handedly beat the gene-manipulated NAZIS in Antarctica! Also.
Can we PLZ just tell the Republicans to go fuck themselves now? Or does Barack need to replace Juggs with another one? Enough of this nonsense.
NMRITC!
No More Repugs In The Cabinet!
re=242456]digibal235[/re]: Ooh. Makes me want to do something to piss him off too. Perhaps this was Gregg’s intention.
bitchincamaro: He’s from New Hampshire, so he would have been okay with FREE TRUCK NUTZ FOR INTERSTATE TRUCKERS as long as the truck drivers had to stop at a liquor store next to the interstate to pick them up, and make a minimum qualifying purchase of booze first.
(okay, unless you’ve lived in the Boston area, this might not make any sense to you).
When we have some commerce in this country, we’ll need a Secretary - to type, file, answer phones and hide under the desk on Friday afternoon.
Possible replacements: Jack Welch, Lee Iacocca, Peter Ueberoth, Guido the Killer Pimp, that “Free Money from the Government” guy from the infomercials
He should have gone quietly, leaving Obie a Dear John… letter in the West Wing.
Barry …. please don’t pick REPpubliCANs any more …. these selfish SOB like to put to use their common sense. Don’t tell me you can’t find more tax cheaters. We promise we’ll approve them this time ….
He just found out TODAY that Obama doesn’t know any basic economics? After a two-year run for the Oval Office? Way to stay informed, dude!
Norm Coleman’s not doing much of anything these days.