{"id":4218,"date":"2009-02-16T07:01:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4218"},"modified":"2009-02-15T10:16:02","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T15:16:02","slug":"i-will-not-go-down-with-this-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4218","title":{"rendered":"I Will Not Go Down With This Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Judd Gregg disses Obammy and makes it crystal clear why he said &#8220;Thanks, but no thanks&#8221; withdrawing his nomination as Commerce Secretary for the Obama <strike>Abomination<\/strike> Administration.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=319420337739273\">It has become apparent<\/a> during this process that this will not work for me as I  have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are  irresolvable conflicts for me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gregg&#8217;s withdrawal is yet another in a string of embarrassments for Mr. Jimmy&#8217;s team of fools and serves to underscore the utter folly that is the &#8220;Stimulus&#8221; bill and portends a brewing census scandal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=319420337739273\">At least a dozen candidates<\/a> turned the prestigious commerce secretary&#8217;s post  down before President Obama came up with Gregg, after assuring him that the  Democratic governor in his home state would appoint a Republican to take his  seat. Obama even joked about the difficulty of &#8220;finding a commerce secretary&#8221; to  the media.<\/p>\n<p>But the real reason why Gregg pulled out is probably that he found there  isn&#8217;t any real place for commerce in the new administration. With President  Obama saying things like &#8220;only government&#8221; can save the economy, Gregg learned  quickly he was unlikely to have any power or influence on behalf of the private  sector.<\/p>\n<p>The current approach has been to use business and bipartisan Republicans like  Gregg as window dressing. But no one&#8217;s fooled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_presidential_election,_2008\">about 52.9%<\/a> of us are still being fooled. Meanwhile Obammy&#8217;s back to begging someone to take the job.<\/p>\n<p><em>Prestigious<\/em> commerce secretary post? Not so much. In another time and on another team, maybe. It appears no Republican is willing to go down with the bipartisanship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Judd Gregg disses Obammy and makes it crystal clear why he said &#8220;Thanks, but no thanks&#8221; withdrawing his nomination as Commerce Secretary for the Obama Abomination Administration. \u201cIt has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}