The creation of Judd Gregg and Kent Conrad’s Magical Budget Cutting Commission From Space, members of which would decide what gets cut from the budget and then tell Congress “pass this thing to save $$$,” has failed on the Senate floor, 53-46, this being one of those things needing 60 votes. It became a problem [...]
CUT ALL TACKSIES. Well, not yet. BUT Judd Gregg and Kent Conrad are so concerned that Congress does not have the willpower to make the tough decisions required to rein in insane long-term budget deficits that they have created this: the “Bipartisan Fiscal Task Force.” Mmm, smells efficient, tastes effective! (EVERYONE MOVE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY [...]
Senator Judd Gregg, who only a few decades ago, in 2009, nearly became a domestic policy Cabinet member in the liberal Barack Obama administration, has circulated to his fellow Senate Republicans a memo listing in extreme detail the various medieval Dark Magic procedures it can apply to impede health care reform from reaching a final [...]
Judd Gregg, a Republican senator from New Hampshire who was going to be Barack Obama’s secretary of commerce before he remembered that had already mortgaged his balls to Mitch McConnell, has fallen prey to another one of the president’s dastardly bipartisan schemes. He has accepted an invitation to attend some sort of “fiscal responsibility summit” [...]
Why can’t Obama find a Commerce Secretary? Uhh … Abe Lincoln’s fault? Hooray for our favorite daytime teevee president! [YouTube]
JUDD GREGG IS DESTROYING OUR CONVERSATION: Only a few more hours until Jonah Goldberg steals the news by being named Commerce Secretary, so we better get all of our “Judge Dredd” posts in. We’ve entered the second phase of this nasty story, where the various anonymous partisans go crazy with the leaks: “WASHINGTON (CNN) — [...]
A Democratic Hill staffer with a clear “liberal bias” writes to TPM, offering a taste of what we can expect from the Internet in a post-Gregg world: “It’s hard not to think that Gregg’s withdrawal, with the grumbling about the census and the stimulus, was not timed to cause the most damage possible to the [...]
While we haven’t yet turned on CNN to hear the Best Political Team On Earth tell us what we think about the politics of what we think about Sen. Judd Gregg’s decision to withdrawn his Commerce Secretary nomination, we think he’s coming off like an idiot. Other people who think Judd Gregg is coming off [...]
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]
Oh no Judd Gregg is also a laughable failure now, after deciding to become a communist for Obama the other day. What a French Gay! Let’s examine the evidence, HMM?
Yay a new era has dawned in Washington, bipartisanship forever, etc! After Barack Obama’s pudgy comic foil had to renounce the Latino Consolation Prize due to a corruption investigation, people wondered who could possibly replace Bill Richardson. And then the name “Judd Gregg” was floated, and people said, “well, he was pretty good in Fast [...]
Did you hear about how Barack Obama might appoint a Republican senator to Commerce Secretary? Such brilliance and political genius! It has never occurred to another human on the planet, ever, that some political advantage might be gained by eliminating an opposition-party Senate seat from a state controlled by a sympathetic governor.
by henry 6:59 am May 18, 2006
by henry 7:13 am October 12, 2005
