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...Gregg, Sen. Judd • allegedly principled withdrawal by as Commerce Secretary nominee is followed by reports of previous seeking of that very position by, leaving observers to wonder what it was about Obama's policies that was suddenly learned by to cause this about-face...
Senator Judd Gregg ended his courtship with President Obama by resorting to one of the oldest lines in the book. "It's not about them," the New Hampshire fiscal conservative announced Thursday, describing the White House team. "It's about my own sense of who I am." All at once, politicos all over Washington had the same reaction: Yeah, right...
...wine and dine you, take you to bed, collect some campaign cash and then move on to the next hot catch - but not before offering a hug and the gentle admonition, "It's not you, babe. It's me." It doesn't so much matter that by all appearances Gregg is no gallant, that he seemed to actually be telling the truth when he said the reason he got cold feet at the altar was that he couldn't bring himself to fully support the President's agenda. What matters is that he dumped the President. He was picked...
...Missouri Twittered within minutes of the announcement. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has logged a decade as a political knife fighter, issued sharp words through a press release, suggesting that it was the Senator himself who had thrown his hat into the ring in the first place. "Senator Gregg reached out to the President," Gibbs noted, and was "very clear" that he would "support, embrace and move forward with the President's agenda." Then Gibbs twisted the rhetorical blade. "We regret that he had a change of heart," the spokesman said. Republicans, meanwhile, celebrated the ability...
...This was the spin, the echo chamber. And this is all most Americans will know about Gregg's withdrawal: that the President was denied yet again in his attempt to reach across the partisan aisle. The real reasons for Gregg's last-minute decision were another matter. A former New Hampshire governor turned legislator, Gregg has long been his own boss. As a relative moderate, he could have held considerable sway in the tightly divided Senate. The job of Commerce Secretary, traditionally the most ceremonial and least influential Cabinet job, offered very limited potential to shape policy. And since...