Obama: Gregg Withdrawal “Something of a Surprise”

So is the President really trying to get us to believe all it takes to get a cabinet position is to call him and ask for one?

Gregg also confirmed that he has no plans to run for Senate again when his term is up in 2010.
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Amazing what e-mail will do. After he stepped in it, he must have received plenty

A senior administration official told FoxNews that they have known of the resignation for two days.

“Good for Gregg. It’s pretty hard for a Republican to stomach lifting sanctions and giving money to Syria at the same time as the president is saying we’re in the worst economy since the depression.”
Peach is being a good little parrot and spreading this lie around.
Obama did not lift sanctions, the Commerce Dept granted a waiver for Boeing to overhaul two Syrian airliners for the purpose of safety.
There is not money going to Syria.

“It is being widely reported that the Obama administration has lifted the sanctions against Syria”
ROFLMAO.
Widely reported?
It was 1 article that YOU pointed me too that you didn’t even bother to read.
What happened?
Did you get this morning’s talking points and only read the article headline?

“But keep pretending your hero didn’t make yet another foreign policy goof.”
ROLFMAO…..issuing a narrow waiver is now a foreign policy goof!
“Like he had to apologize to China the first week of his presidency.”
Except he didn’t apologize. Yet another thing you made up.
“And like Iran didn’t make fun of him after that ill-conceived interview with Al Arabia.”
So what?
Iran made fun of Bush constantly.
Obama got to go on the only pro-America/Western Arab station and reach an audience we need to speak to.

“Gregg knows that hundreds of economists disagree and many of them took out a full page add in the NYT to say so.”
Many of them?
It was the Cato Institute who believe in the free market no matter what.

“was pulling a stunt by having a stealth, rationed healthcare provision inserted in the stimulus bill.”
On Monday, Bloomberg ran an opinion piece from Betsy McCaughey, a staffer at a conservative think tank who also used to be a Republican Lt. Gov. of New York, attacking the economic stimulus plan. Specifically, McCaughey insisted that the policy would create a “new bureaucracy” called the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will “monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective.” McCaughey said the federal government would then “‘guide’ your doctor’s decisions,” adding, “Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.”
The claim, not surprisingly, isn’t true. The National Coordinator for Health Information Technology isn’t “new”; it was created by George W. Bush five years ago. More importantly, the measure is about medical records, not limiting physicians’ treatments.
In fact, the language in the House bill that McCaughey … referenced does not establish authority to “monitor treatments” or restrict what “your doctor is doing” with regard to patient care, but rather addresses establishing an electronic records system such that doctors would have complete, accurate information about their patients “to help guide medical decisions at the time and place of care.”
Remember, McCaughey got it wrong. Limbaugh and Drudge took the wrong information and exaggerated it further. Then Fox News took Limbaugh’s lies, and stretched them even further still. That none of this is grounded in reality in any way was of no importance to any of these clowns. Untold thousands of Americans, who don’t know better, get their “news” from these people, and have no idea they’ve been lied to.

Ryan C, it’s so enjoyable to follow your posts. thanks! I love a man who deals in facts. Keep up the great work.
(If only you were a journalist.)

Gosh, apparently Obama doesn’t understand (or is just plain lying) when he says all the economists agree that government spending will improve the situation.
Even the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office has said the spending will WORSEN the situation.
And FDR’s own Treasury Secretary admitted they made the depression worse with all the government spending, something most non-partisan economists and historians recognize.
But Obama just keeps up the spin. Or, as we quaintly call it in flyover country, he keeps up the lies.

Gosh, one has to wonder: If Bambi can’t vet his own cabinet using domestic intelligence/vetting procedures, how in the world can we trust him to appropriately analyze CIA intelligence?
We can’t. It speaks volumes that Bambi doesn’t have what it takes to figure out whether his own cabinet are tax cheats or not.

Wow Gregg wasn’t going to go along with something illegal like moving the Census from Commerce (where it belongs by law) to the White House.
Or it could have been he saw first hand what “bipartisan” meant to Obama from the stimulus debate (seems to mean you must agree with everything Obama says, ditto for patriotism these days) and said “Um, yeah, I’ll pass on that treatment thank you”

“You have a mandate by the people”
Hahahahahaha. Over 58 million people did NOT vote for him. He’d be wise to remember that.

I owe President Obama an apology. During the transition, when the news of the massive questionnaire potential nominees had to fill out was occupying our attention, I complained that they were being too intrusive in their vetting and that no one would want to jump through all those hoops in order to take a cabinet position. Boy, was I off-base. The vetting was as far from too stringent as it could be. They don’t seem to know what a nominee is going to do next. No, Gregg did nothing unethical or illegal, like, say, Geithner, but they knew going in he was a Republican. Seems like they would have been more thorough in seeing how comfortable he was with Obama’s policies and leadership style, far more than a Democrat nominee. Seems like they would have pressed him hard about things like his views on their stimulus proposal or their plans for the Census.

Ryan C -
Well – this is the third time I’ll say this. Apparently someone doesn’t like the fact that I’m mentioning that FDR’s Treasury Secretary said what he did about throwing money at the problem.
FDR’s Treasury Secretary most certainly did say, years after the depression, that throwing money at the problem only made it worse. You can look it up if you’re interested in historical facts.

To Ryan C:
Just google the words “FDR Treasury Secretary said money didn’t work”.
I know you libs like to pretend it didn’t happen, but even FDR’s treasury secretary admitted that throwing money at the depression didn’t work. It’s historical fact.

Maybe if Obama would start doing what is right, instead of ONLY doing what he thinks will help him get re-elected, he wouldn’t have these problems. Choosing Gregg was a lame attempt to get a Republican Senate vote for his stimulus plan, but also to get Republican support in the next presidential election. Every decision his administration makes is so politically calculated. All he needs to do is the right thing. But, of course, that will NEVER happen as long as he is listening to people like Rahm Emanuel, James Carville, Paul Begala, and George Stephanopoulos. They are all from the Clinton administration, and they are using the same tactics they used then, whatever it takes to get us re-elected. There are two more than qualified, loyal Democrats who could immediately fill the positions of Commerce and HHS Secretaries. However, instead of doing the right thing by nominating Gen. Wesley Clark and Gov. Howard Dean, Obama would rather risk the embarassment of choosing people who have ethical or loyalty deficits.