Richardson Withdrawing Nomination

Actually I have to hand it to Jake, one of his guests from last week’s THIS WEEK panel gave a very direct tip about this. Jake was actually a week ahead on this one.

Well, we are having a virtual rash of pay-to-play scandals, aren’t we? Perhaps the nickname given by Carville wasn’t that far off…

Richardson is doing the right thing. Whether he is guilty or not, it would be a major distraction at the beginning of the new administration–one that no one in the country can afford at this time. Obama, his administration and Congress need to hit the ground running, and fast, to tackle the major issues facing this country.

Really a shame as I think Obama could have benefited enormously from Richardson’s vast public service experience. But I think he did the right thing. Are you paying attention Blago?

wow, what a shock. If this guy was a republican, that info would have made the headline for sure.
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I think the giant red “Breaking News” banner on the ABC home page is “so obvious” in addition to it being their top hi-lighted story.

If Richardson feels he acted properly, why is he withdrawing?

Mitt Romney, Line 1.
John Kerry, Line 2?

Another Corrupt Politician in a vicinity of our 44th President. What a SHOCKER!???

Susan–I highly doubt most sane folk will pin this one on Obama. While I did vote for Obama and therefore may be a bit biased, I think most Americans are seeing a breath of fresh air in his style of governing and the by the quality of appointments he has made to his cabinet. Give the man a freaking chance, will you? He hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and you are out to get him. Get over McCain’s defeat and try for one moment to do something to help this country get back on track instead of trying to tear down the president-elect.

Guess it looks bad when a cabinet nominee is forced to take the Fifth in his confirmation hearing. ;)

jpt quotes Gibbs:
“In the case of Gov. Richardson, in the case of anybody else, I think at the end of the day you’ll have a very strong Cabinet in place that’s confirmed in a way that allows the President-elect to hit the ground running on the 20th of January.”
Yeah, right

Isn’t this alot like the cash that Clinton accepted? Should Hillary pull her nomination? It would resolve the mess the Democrats have made of the Senate appointment process in NY. Seems they can’t get anything right.

Wow, a Democrat busted for some scandal. I’ve never heard of that before…

“Should Hillary pull her nomination?”
They should ALL decamp to South America, and both the hijacked political parties should be outlawed.

Payback? January 20, 2009 – Let the games begin…

AWWWW, More DEMOCRATIC CORRUPTION! What else is new!Then dumbo Obama says he’s doing it to prefer delay of this cabinet post and Obama has deep regrets. Give me a buuurrreak!!

Well, Richardson is doing his best to bow out now, I guess. If there is any impropriety found, he should be ashamed to have even accepted Obama’s request as Sec’y of Commerce.

While some might like to pull Hillary into this, let’s remember that Bill Richardson and John Edwards endorsed Obama. I’m so glad they did!

Shocking yeah whatever. He was corrupt when he was Governor of New Mexico. There was a certain Committee of 50 that ran a Military Town there that owned him. Now it is all catching up to him.

I we are ever going to move forward in this country the ####’s of the world are going to have to stop trying to turn every scrap of disappointment into a partisan spitball. I don’t know what the character limit is on this blog but I assure you I don’t have space to cite every Republican ethics violation over the last five years. Life is not about “them” against “us”.

And the walls are already beginning to crumble down even before he takes office.

jpt writes:
“How confident are you that Gov. Richardson and all of your proposed Cabinet nominees will clear the Senate confirmation process?” I asked.”
Given the ongoing revelations about the Senate leadership’s chicanery, and the shameless self-dealing of many members OF the Senate, you gotta wonder about the WHOLE “confirmation” charade … who fixes what for whom, how many campaign contributions and Senate seats are passed from whom to whom …

The idiots who voted for Obama will not verbally express their disappointment in him until the inevitable end in 2012.
Obama Drama will continue.

Susan, point made. I was responding to a comment I no longer see listed.

to young_voter, you should have used that phase for bush,and his lying group of misfits.

The same idiots who vote for Bush vote for
Obama. Young voter you should have impeach Bush.

young_voter:” When can we impeach Mr. Obama?”
Well, first he would actually have to take office, which won’t happen for weeks. Then he would have to actually commit an impeachable offense (and lets just say the current administration has raised the bar of what an “impeachable offense” is very very high).

jhw539 WELL SAID

Peace Train: “Obama’s disastrous presidency may herald the end of the left.”
I don’t know what’s funnier – your assessment of Obama’s presidency weeks before it even starts or your apparent belief that he’s ‘the left.’ Either way, thanks for the laugh!

So far the “pay to play” business with Richardson exists as an allegation. If it pans out not to be the case, he’ll deserve recognition for resigning. If there was chicanery involved, then his speedy withdrawal was for the best in that scenario, too. It could be said he has a bizarro counterpart by the name of Blagojevich.

I have been a registered Democrat since 1951 and voted Democrat most of the time because I believe in the old Democrat party principles. I now feel the Party has left me and I will be registering a Republican or Independent sometime in January. They have just went too far to the left for me. Maybe within the next four years they will straighten their party out, but Obama will never do it. Will take a good man that is more in the middle and have some common sense. Also Howard Dean must go.

I would rather have Bill Clinton any day over Bush.

….well everything is beginning to “fall down and go boom”‘

I voted DEM until this election. Never will again. Like barefootboy said, too far left and too out of their minds.

Richardson is withdrawing because he has more to hide and wants to kill the investigation.
Otherwise he’d say ‘bring it on. The 1.5 is just the tip of the iceberg.
It’s almost impossibe now for an honest person to win an election. It’s too expensive to run and you have to play the $$ game in order to survive it.
Our current president and our president elect both bought their way into the White House. All of our Senators and Congressmen are self serving millionaires that are completely out of touch with Middle America.
Nothing will change with either party until we stop supporting fanstasy characters created by big $$ and the media.

I don’t know why we are even talking about this. With people being lay off daily and our country in a recession we need to be thanking God if we have job and home to go to. That fact is the majority of the American people have spoken. And their voices were loud and clear. If they are wrong then it want be the first time.

Belle Starr, I didn’t mean to imply that Obama is clean himself. His “special” house deal with Rezko is certainly enough to make that clear. My point was that Obama has never once stood up to his own party or questioned their use of government giveaways as a way to maintain elected office. He is NOT the “change” that we have been waiting for. He is a product of a political machine that is corrupt and irresponsible.
Didn’t want to be mischaracterized…

MGW did you gut tell about the current one. How much more corrupt can you get.

Carl,
The ‘committee of 50′ is so inherently corrupt that I imagine their tampering in the local K-12 and higher ed scene will end up making the news some time this year.

It is simple. We need to education Americans to make smarter voting choices. Things that gets in the way of that are the party system and the electoral college.
Anyone who voted for Obama was an idiot. Anyone who voted for Bush was an idiot.
Bad candidates come from all parties.
Anyone with a brain would see that Obama was an empty suit with good slogans. Look at his Illinois record what did he do? Nothing!!!! He has corrupt friends, won’t disclose health, birth or school information. Friends with domestic terrorist, buys home from slum lord, wife has a weekly standing lunch date with Louis Farrakhan’s wife. Wife says she hates America. He said he would bankrupt the coal industry and wants to spread the wealth, stumbled over questions without actually answering them….

“I didn’t mean to imply that Obama is clean himself. His “special” house deal with Rezko is certainly enough to make that clear. My point was that Obama has never once stood up to his own party or questioned their use of government giveaways as a way to maintain elected office. He is NOT the “change” that we have been waiting for. He is a product of a political machine that is corrupt and irresponsible.”
The really scary thing about Him is that he’s not really so smart, but has been merchandised as “brilliant” … AND can’t hack “conflict”, AND never won a contested election.
Beginning with Bill Ayers, Obama’s been a pretty-boy front man for corporate playboys.

Well Richardson, you are the only guy in the world that can invite a guest into your house, watched Superbowl together in the afternoon and knifed her in the back the next day with a straight face. You can now “pay-to-play” your nomination to the highest bidder.

I find it sort of ironic and interesting that McCain was accused of not vetting his V-P running mate choice after it was learned her daughter was expecting. Is anyone rushing to ask why Obama did not do a better job of “vetting” his choice for Commerce Secretary. I find it hypocritical of the media to not challenge Obama and his ilk as to why they did not foresee this little snag.
So much for the change that Obama promised… he promised he would not pick Washington insiders, but I think he got really cold feet since he realized the responsibility he had taken on with very little experience. So, based on his own insecurity, he had picked all old war-horses and Beltway establishment people. Where is the outrage among his supporters.

I forsee change in the white house and government. The change will be visible for all to see who is getting the money from those contributions.
ANyone who can raise a billion dollars will ow a lot of favors.

“Where is the outrage among [Obama's] supporters.”
Building, building, building … especially now that He stands mute, hiding behind George Bush’s skirts, while the Israeli government He’s declared “sacrosanct” does its damnedest, on the US dime, to wipe out the Palestinians before His coronation.

OBAMA = CORRUPTION

Obama transition team was too busy inspecting every thing about Bill Clinton that they let Bill Richardson slide. If Bill Richardson really cared about getting this seat appointed he wouldnt have even accepted the nod. I am sure this is not the first time he heard rumblings about an investigation taking or could take place with his dealings. He just got caught and now Obama has probably made him get out. Bill Richardson you showed no loyalty to the clintons and then obama gave away the cabinet position you really wanted, and then said sorry buddy now you got caught up withdraw your name. time to reevaluate who were your real friends.(answer the guy who appointed you to be energy secretary the on you turned on.)

I always thought the FBI were hiding the shooting down of Flight 800 by MISSLE. This would explain what Sandy Burglar was stealing from the Clinton Library. And in is consistent with what happen with that supposed suicide in the park in which the FBI pushed out all other investigators, came to a conclusion that didn’t fit the facts, and helped protect the Clintons from another scandal. Funny how papers stolen from this guy surfaced later in Hillary’s quarters.

Like father like son. Or should we say like Arizona like Illinois. Or should we say like Commerce Sec. like Prez Elect.

Now people, we just gotta keep repeatin’ those three little words: hope, change, believe … hope, change, believe … hope, change, believe. If we say them enough times, won’t they come true?

Bye the way who own’s America now??

Gov. Richardson should also step down as Governor since his shady dealings have brought such shame to New Mexico. We don’t need leadership that is continually plagued by corruption. Have you heard of the Alaskan bridge to nowhere, well, how about the one track train of modern times? Just look at the New Mexican railrunner. In the late 1800′s Italy built a train to the top of Mt. Vesuvius using two tracks and in 2008, New Mexico builds a one track train system to alleviate highway congestion. This is just another example of forward (a.k.a. illogical) thinking by Former Gov. Richardson. Good thing he won’t be in the cabinet, he’d probably give away more taxpayer’s money. It’s time for Richardson’s political career to end.

Should we re-start the campaign again..LOL…

I’d like to thank the mainstream media for doing us all a real service digging up dirt on honest politicians like Sarah Palin while totally ignoring ACTUAL corruption committed by Obama’s associates and Democrats in Congress (Frank, Dodd, etc.).
Change is definitely coming. It looks like it’ll consist mostly of weekly political scandals, civil unrest, more war in the Middle East, and the collapse of our economy due to binge government spending. Sure, it’ll be painful. But at least we now know Palin’s grades in elementary school. And that’s what really matters.

“who own’s America now?”
The banks and corporations who got the bailouts Obama voted FOR, just before throwing away his Senate seat to go on vacation.

Peanuts or popcorn anyone what’s up for graps next. It’s the greatest show on circus circus time.

This “probe” has been going on for Months and ABC has been protecting the scandal ridden democrats all of 2007, just look at the whoremonger from Florida, democrat congressman that took the pervert Foleys seat, NOT a word on his whoremongering from ABC, CBS or NBC ABC is in Full Protection Mode for the corrupt Obama. There is more to come, with the investigation of Obama/norman hsu ties and a possible ponzi scheme.. Jake we WILL get the truth out..HOw many Democrat scandals have there been now in a year 12? democrat Dingle being asked to step down for ethics vilotions.. heard anything about it from ABC or any other network?

You people who are complaining about Obama and how he is “involved” in so many scandals. There is no evidence directly linking Obama to the wrong doing of others. Now I could start listing all of the scandals the republicans have been in recently but that would generate a long list and people won’t really be bothered to read it. He has not run this country into the ground yet, you can start complaining when that happens. Besides, Bush left a serious mess behind and all of a sudden it is up to this administration to solve ALL of the worlds problems. Bush ran this country into the ground and McCain’s plans analysts have concluded would run it into the ground more than Obama’s plans. Cutting taxes and deregulation simply does not work. Republicans will try to block any effort by the democrats and NOTHING gets done. I hope Obama will bring Congress together and solve the problems as one instead of party politics dividing them up.

There must be politicians all over the country in a state of shock, because their standard modus operandi is coming under scrutiny and attack. Large donors have expected, for eons, some return on their money. This has certainly happened in every state of the Union for a very long time.
This week’s New Yorker discusses an Illinois hospital exec who was trying to get state permission to expand her facility and was told that if she didn’t agree to use a certain contractor, she wouldn’t get the go-ahead. She went to the FBI. I had to ask, Now, why would the men who approached her NOT consider that if they attempted to extort her so openly, she might go to the authorities? The only conceivable answer is that this was their normal method of doing business, so that the fact that the lady might report them never crossed their minds.
And I’m quite sure they are by no means alone in their thinking. Or lack of it.

Let The Democrat Scandals Begin.
Obama has very bad judgement!!

I vote democratic mostly but I am glad to see this. These political favors are destroying our country and I like to see each party attack the other party members who pull this sorry stuff. It needs to continue. Weed them out!

How many “pay to play” deals did Obama make in order to raise so much campaign money..????? These scandals are the TIP OF THE ICEBERG..!!!! Who’s next? Emmanuel, Clinton, Biden ????…CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN…..LOL

“Richardson probably didn’t withdraw of his own volition”
It sounds like he did, actually. Though undoubtedly with some pressure.

The Clintons punish — but they wait!

“Jesus H. Christ on roller skates, what’s next?”
Obama steps down and moves to the tropics, because He or some member of the immediate family is suddenly suffering a rare condition requiring silence and sea air?

Belle starr, are you from the plotical REHAB?

To Rod M: Better yet, vote em out!

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Obama team is using this for an excuse, especially since they have known about it. Maybe it’s just a way for them to get who they really want-like what’s being done in Illinois. I’m sure part of Richardson’s backing included that he get’s a cabinet position. He’s just outlived his usefullness. Don’t forget that Axelrod is an expert at “behind the scenes” leaks to newspapers. I think one can safely say scandals are his specialty. I’m with Belle Starr…just WHERE IS RAHM? Surely it doesn’t take THIS long to bury the birth certificate.

Obama is a national joke.
I am ashamed to call myself an American because of this corruption at the national level. Shame on Obama.

PEBO knows all about pay-to-play or palm-greasing political thuggery. How do you think he won the election?
So don’t just hang a case on Richardson or Blago or JJ or Caroline or…! :(
They are all corrupt cronies from the same cesspool! :(

I would not doubt if there are more pay-to-play characters in Obama’s administration. I still find it incredible that a person with little to no experience is able to raise over 700+ million dollars, and garner superdelgates handily to become President of United States.

Bush and the Republicans have left the country and the government in ‘fine’ shape. Billions of billions of dollars in debt with the economy in a complete mess.
Yes, indeed . . . pretty smart lot.
Given the mess, Obama will do well simply to help the nation survive. You right wing Republican Bush supporters have little to be boasting about.
Get on board and try to pull this thing towards the positive – acknowledge the mess and do something positive in your community besides carping.

Bush and the Republicans had 8 years to address any glaringly dangerous policies of Clinton – and they did nothing but make things worse.
Please, 8 years and the situation only got worse and worse. Take some responsibility – I’m surprised you’re not blaming this all on JFK 48 years ago.

Whart happened to that vaunted Obama vetting team????
Or did they all know & figure with the media’s help they could slide Richardson through ?
It’s got to be one or the other!

For allegations that McCain is not a natural born citizen, is absurd. Both of McCain’s parents were natural born citizens unlike Obama. When a military family takes up residency in a foreign country as part of their military responsibility to our country, any children born would automatically be given natural born status. For anyone that disagrees with that , I say if one wishes to consider the fact that no military would ever reside in a foreign country under any circumstances due to their children being denied automatic citizenship and the classification of “natural born’ status where would our country be. What a stupid and disloyal comment to make concerning those who honor their country by traveling where ever our country deems necessary. Yet you would not question Obama’s refusal to provide necessary documents to clear up any questions and could avoid a possible civil uprising which could result if he continues to refuse to prove once and for all he is who he claims to be.

The Essence of our American Heritage Has Been Destroyed by Obama and Our Government
After the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, our government requested all citizens do their civic duty in being more observant and report any suspicious individuals, activities or any unaccompanied baggage or parcels.
However, when we ask our Supreme Court to do their civic duty by investigating an area of great concern whereby a political figure is committing fraud to secure the Presidential election under false pretentions, they not only refuse to become involved but state we as “ordinary citizens “ do not have the right to question Obama’s qualification or lack thereof. Conveniently passing the buck over to Congress stating they are the only ones that have the authority to impeach, knowing full well that the Democratic Congress would never take any action against Obama, since they themselves are also involved in the fraud.
I always thought any degree of criminal activity should be reported to and handled by our court system, especially when it involves a critical governmental individual. While the attempts to file suit in 9 states also fell on deaf ear by the court system, and our appeal to the Supreme Court likewise became a refusal to get involved, one should think how corrupt has our judicial branch become.
What harm would it have done to merely request the detailed documents outlined in our petition which could assure the safety and security of our country and stop the anger which is becoming pretty predominate throughout the internet by Obama’s refusal to submit these documents? The only conclusion I can reach is our entire government is aware of the fraud and is involved in the cover up since they don’t want the news to get out about Obama’s deception in circumventing our constitution, falsification of governmental documents, i.e. Presidential Certification stating he fully qualified for the position when he knew he was not, and the Selective Service Registration actually filed in 2008 but falsified to show 1980. His trips to Africa and Iraq illegally performing a function for which he was not yet appointed to! The list becomes so lengthy, I doubt if any other individual could have accomplished as much fraud in such a short period of time, yet our government opens up their arms and welcomes into their fold, an even more critical element, a potential terrorist. The Muslim radicals stating that they would find another way to destroy our country and in particular “would raise the flag at the White House”, this will be accomplished when Obama enters the White House after the inauguration. This should surely be a feather in their cap. They took an intelligent African Muslim indoctrinated him in the protocol favorable to Americans, the use of propaganda to influence the American vote, injected funding towards the new media to report one-sided commentary, disrupted our financial system as well as that of Europe by attempting to take down one of the very critical structures of our country with a mere tactic of delay convincing the political party it was the way to go until the initial impact could be felt, then provide him with top secret information about our country, outsmarting some of our most “so called political genius’s” without creating any question regarding his actual agenda, destruction of America.
The Department of Homeland Security was developed to provide more safety and security to the American people and our country yet they have not accomplished much in providing this added security since they to do not accept any responsibility to investigate the possibility of foreign infiltration by a black American/Muslim into a top level position in our government who has never received national security clearance. I am sure that will change since bribery can accomplish a lot, all of which Obama is willing to do to accomplish his ultimate goal of being our next President. While forgery can be accomplished, the more people involved the more susceptible he becomes to disclosure.
While everyone is relatively aware of the corruption that has existed in our government for a while, the magnitude of corruption prevalent now is unbelievable. It would be incorrect to say that bribery does not exist within the general public as well. Every time we provide or accept a gift for services performed or for consideration of favoring a specific product or organization,etc., we become involved in a form of bribery. It’s when that bribery becomes an issue affecting not just ourselves but a multitude of people manifesting itself to uncontrollable levels detrimental to our country.
I guess we should consider ourselves lucky that it took over 200+ years for the over saturation to take effect, thanks to the final nail placed in our coffin by Obama, with our government looking on in favor. I hope there will be enough concerned Americans, the true patriots of our country, still around that can be sure those coming after them are fully aware of the lack of integrity displayed by our political parties.
As George Washington once stated, the division into political parties could prove disastrous if not adequately controlled. He was so smart and I hope in the non to distant future our grand children will see that the 2008 political campaign will receive the discredit it deserves. Thanks to Obama, a majority of the Democratic Party and all the others involved, for they have destroyed the very essence of our American heritage and they should be labeled as traitors to their own country.
Is this the same tactic or over confidence that resulted in the 9/11 attack, never dreaming that their careless and smug attitude also attributed to the disaster by their deliberate refusal to address the issues when they first appeared and then brushed them off hoping they would just go away. Yet, they are doing the same thing now by refusing to even address our concerns which could divert a possible civil uprising instead their fear of an African American riot, their fear of the potential fallout from those of the Democratic Party involved, the monetary benefits resulting from the inaugural celebration and other influential’s banking on Obama’s victory, is given more precedence.
I thought our government consisted of intelligent individuals, but their intelligence flew out the window when the benefits to them outweighed the expense to their country. Our country is no better than any others that have sold out the freedoms of all their people in the name of power and greed.
I truly hope you are not also involved in the destruction of what was once called the most powerful nation in the world. Now we will end up being the stupidest country which was taken down by their own people with the help of the Muslim radical community.