New England Republicans Live To See Another Day
by Brian Maloney, February 12th, 2009 at 04:59pm
With one move late this afternoon, Barack Obama’s hope for a smoother tenure in office has been completely derailed. Who knew a Republican from New Hampshire could cause this to happen?
Talk radio immediately jumped on the story, with Howie Carr offering qualified praise for the move (he’s still upset over Gregg’s past support for illegal alien amnesty), but the news broke after Rush Limbaugh’s show, so reaction there will have to wait until tomorrow.
A major side benefit to Senator Judd Gregg’s (R-NH) withdrawal as prospective Commerce Secretary nominee is that the nearly-dead New England Republican Party lives to see another day.
With New Hampshire having completed its quest to become a liberal colony of Massachusetts, Gregg’s seat almost certainly would have gone to a Democrat in 2010. In fact, they’d already been lining up for the chance at it, gearing up for early fundraising.
Beyond destabilizing Obama’s regime, Gregg’s move also has the effect of calling attention to Barack’s Hugo Chavez-like move to politicize the 2010 US Census by moving it away from Commerce and into the White House itself. Clearly, Gregg realized he would get all of the blame for the skewed result, while having no power over the process.
While news media reports have Obama’s regime “blindsided” over the move, Gregg himself has been careful not to criticize the administration, blaming himself for not pulling out earlier.
For a fantastic analysis of Barack’s census hijacking, see Byron York’s DC Examiner piece here.
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1. ChrisNH | February 12th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
This ‘100-Day War’ is going perfectly. Everything Obama touches is turning to garbage. His ineptness is more visible than even his most vocal critics could imagine. ‘Hope!’ ‘Change!’
2. Laurence Glavin | February 12th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I wondedr if Gregg has been paying taxes on his lottery winnings? Just asking.
3. James Huberty | February 12th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
A RINO grows a pair…shocking! Doesn’t make up for Collins and Snowe though…
The census thing is very troubling. And typical of Daley Machine creature like Obama.
4. ChrisNH | February 12th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Oh, that census thing IS huge. They talk about ‘over-reaching’ by this administration, and that’s Exhibit A. Obama needs a makeup person badly to diffuse his ‘cigarette lips.’ Ugly, blue, miserable-looking. Sunken cheeks follow. Poor, poor man.
5. Jay-B | February 13th, 2009 at 6:20 am
*chuckle* *chuckle*
6. the real Barbara | February 13th, 2009 at 8:22 am
Obama has been embarassed again and again due to his inexperience, kinda like his buddy deval, they must be using the same playbook.
7. Jim T | February 13th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Remember the charges during election season that Obama was “not ready to lead”. Turns out they were right. Any of you Obama supporters feeling buyer’s remorse? Don’t you wish you’d selected Hillary instead? LOL
8. James Huberty | February 13th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Jim T makes a great point. The buyer’s remorse has to be getting to them. All Obama does with any efficacy is give speeches, every attempt at actual policy or merely hiring people for his administration has been one flop after another.
9. Cap'n Spackle | February 13th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Barbara, what do you mean “they must be”? They definitely are. “Together We Can” became “Yes We Can”. They both gave the same “…Just Words” speech during their campaigns and both played the same class warfare card. They both emerged from the same Chi-town corruptocracy and used an almost unanimously complicit media to push out this absolutely bogus uniter / “bipartisanship” reputation that more than half the voting public managed to swallow. Cadillac is simply the smaller-scale Beta test version of Obama.
Chris, if things keep going the way they are, don’t be surprised to see the Comm. Ørganizer revert to his Panama hat and spliff.
10. the real Barbara | February 13th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
This clown has been in office a month and look at the damage he has done so far, we’ve got another 3 1/2 years of this nonsense, will there even be a United States when he’s done??
Besides all the nonsensical speeches there’s also the use of Air Force One, granted he is the prez and it is at his disposal, but it seems as though in the last month he’s used Air Force One more in one month than any other prez used in a year. He’s like a little kid who’s been deprived of any luxuries and now he’s gonna by God get his share of all the luxuries afforded him and his family and he’s going to do it all in a month. I can’t imagine what it’s like inside the white house these days.
Oh and as for that clown Gregg, he should NEVER have even considered working for the commerce dept, wth was he thinking, oh wait, he WASN’T!
11. Mr. Pragmatic | February 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
No remorse…in fact I’m fairly pleased though if the Republicans weren’t going to sign on to the bill anyway, I would have advocated more spending and fewer tax cuts. Now the Republicans get to have it both ways; they diluted the bill and can claim victory if it fails. Of course since Barack is focused on consensus building, he is willing to run that risk. As I said before, the great thing about Obama’s vision is that if we make America a better place there will be room at the table for supporters and dissenters alike.
12. James Huberty | February 13th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
“Barack is focused on consensus building”..
Beyond token appoinments to RINOs..that EVEN the RINO realized was not worth it, is there any evidence of consensus building or bi-partisanship?
Umm…no. The most liberal Senator just SAYS IT..never actually does it.
And keeping Gates on as SECDEF is hardly “bi-partisan”. Read Gates own admissions in his book “From the Shadows”, he’s a political animal who jumps from administration to adminstration,doesn’t matter if it was Carter or Bush
13. Mr. Pragmatic | February 14th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
How many Dems, token or otherwise, were in Bush’s cabinet? What % of the bill ended up being tax cuts? He talks to everyone, he admits mistakes and he has a cogent plan. Yes We Can.
14. James Huberty | February 14th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
I don’t recall Bush ever pretending to be a bi-partisan “agent of change”. The current douchebag in chief did make those promises.
15. piratetoby | February 14th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Hub, You’re right. Bush didn’t pretend to be a bi-partisan agent of change. He pretended to be a President.
I love all this criticism of Obama, what less than 4 weeks in the White House.
Any way you can nix the douchebag description? It’s tough to communicate with users of that type of language.
Thanks.
16. James Huberty | February 14th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I’ll substitute “puppet” for “douchebag”. The “puppet in chief”. I shouldn’t even criticize him for any policy or decisions of consequence, because like the creep(s) that preceded him, HE DOESN’T CALL ANY SHOTS.
17. piratetoby | February 14th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Thank you.
I disagree w/your assessment. How is it that after less than a month in office, you call him a puppet? Who’s pulling the strings?
A decision of consequence? Like stating he’s be willing to sit down w/Iran? Who called that shot?
18. James Huberty | February 14th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
The same guys who’ve pulled his strings since his college days. Obama was a protege of Zbig Brzezinski. In Illinois, guys like Axelrod/Paul Simon were his Illinois backers. Obama, with ZERO roots in that state, somehow felicitously rises up the chain in less than a decade? Please. This guy answers to his NWO masters like Soros,Kissinger…a total globalist who comes from the Ivy League Ivory Tower. This “community organizer” nonsense is to appease blacks and do gooder liberals. Every mobster needs a “front” job to make things look legit.
That’s why I laugh about the “Secret Muslim” charge. Obama is a Zionist. TO GET ELECTED IN THAT STATE YOU HAVE TO BE 100% in league with the AIPAC gang or you’re done. Paul Findley,Charles Percy,Adlai Stevenson III can attest to this. The slightest criticism can lead to your career ending. So Obama is without a doubt, just as awful as Bush on the Middle East.Another toad for Israel. The hiring of Rahm Emanuel-the “American” who served in the IDF- confirmed that.
35 more dead in a US drone strike in Pakistan today. Good luck hearing about this news on the “news” though…
19. James Huberty | February 14th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
“Talks with Iran” are just that. As the US tries to interfere with their system and bring “change” without an invasion. Obama’s eye is on Pakistan and ultimately Russia. That’s who Zbig wants the battle with. That demented old warmonger wants the Cold War to heat up again
20. piratetoby | February 14th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Wow. Quite a response. And a bit more than I’m prepared to respond to tonight.
21. piratetoby | February 15th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Hub, Obama shoud be watching both Pakistan and Russia, and he doesn’t need Zbig to puppeteer him into that direction.
I read an interview between Zbig and Scarborough (co-hosted w/Zbig’s daughter Mika). Anyway, Zbig chastised Scarborough for having “superficial” insight into their topic.
With that, I’ll concede my superficial and limited (at best) insight into the relationship between Obama and Zbig. However, after observing the puppet show of the past eight years, I’ll be watching for signs of another.
See what can occur when you take words like “douchebag” out of the conversation?
22. James Huberty | February 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Every president is a puppet. You don’t get that far in politics without powerful benefactors opening doors. Hence,”no-names” like Carter,Clinton and Obama having astronomical rises in their parties overnight.
The Reagan Administration from 81-88 helped the Mujahadeen,”Afghan Arabs” aka the incipient Al Qaeda tremendously in the hills of Afghanistan/Pakistan. This has become common knowledge(I hope)…BUT…it was on July 3,1979 when a Brzezinski/NSC plan to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan was signed off by Jimmy Carter and the US began to send aid to the rebels…
JULY 3,1979. America sends aid to Islamic rebels…one small issue. THE SOVIETS DIDN’T INVADE UNTIL 12/24/79. Typical “American” ie. globalist provocation from the Council on Foreign Relations zealots like Zbig and Kissinger. The Russian-Afghanistan war…provoked by Zbig. And TO THIS DAY,he defends aiding those Islamic rebels EVEN AFTER they became Al Qaeda.
Why? Because “Islamic Terror” is the new “threat” to the world. Replacing the “Red” threat of 1946-1989.
It’s the Hegelian diaclectic….
Thesis…the Liberal Democracy of the West
Antithesis…Communism/now Islamism
Synthesis…One World Government to “prevent” the rise of Communism/Islamism
23. piratetoby | February 15th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
Hub,
I do agree one does not become President w/out powerful benefactors. However benefactors and puppeteers are not quite the same.
And I do agree on the US’s involvement in global issues where their intervention was a mistake, and has led to the less than favorable opinion the US has in the eyes of the world.
Again, I have to concede further debate. I have a difficult time remembering where I was late seventies, early eighties. Carter and Regan’s administrations were, at best, a blur to me. I am, however, slowly getting up to speed with some of the past.
24. James Huberty | February 15th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
Here where I believe the benefactor/puppet is synonymous. I’m straining to think of ONE truly independent,autonomous decision made by a US President in recent history. The most “recent” one I can think of is Eisenhower’s dressing down of The UK,France and Israel over the Suez conflict in October 1956. Over than that…EVERY thing these puppets do is done to expand the size of government,help corporate interests,increase hegemonic power over countries who have..let’s say, oil or poppies. Funny how every war America has been involved in the past 50 years just happens to be very close to where oil or narcotics is mass produced. Vietnam,Afghanistan,Panama,Iraq….
A coincidence I’m sure.
25. piratetoby | February 15th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
Hub,
C’mon. You’ve gotta admit there is at least a little bit of wiggle room between an “independatn, autonomous decision” and being a “puppet”.
No disagreement here with the locale of the wars we get ouselves into (oil/narcotics). It’s always about “us” regardless of our claims to the contrary.
26. piratetoby | February 15th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Oops, s/be “independant”
27. James Huberty | February 15th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Call me a cynic,but I think true autonomy from a President leads to a Dealey Plaza scenario. “Gonna withdraw those troops from South East Asia,JFK?”….Bam.
And that’s my point about Obama. These idealists who believed the crap about “Change” aren’t paying attention-they’re caught up in their teenage crush. The cadre surrounding Obama are the same set of characters that have been bollixing world affairs since the late 50’s. It’s old coots like Zbig and Kissinger,their friends and relatives and their proteges. Obama is just another cog in the Daley Machine.
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