Why Gregg Bailed

Baltimore Examiner by Byron York | Feb. 13, 2009 (Opinion)

After 16 years as a Republican senator from New Hampshire, Judd Gregg has a lot of friends among GOP lawmakers, and in the past two weeks, many of them -- perhaps most of them -- have been wondering why he chose to accept Barack Obama's offer to become Commerce Secretary. Their objections intensified in the last week, as Republicans grew more worried about the Obama administration's plan to move control of the politically-sensitive 2010 Census from the ... Full Story »

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Topics: U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Republicans, Obama Administration
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Feb 13, 2009 - 8:38 AM PST
Reviewed by: Jim Lang (review), Bob Barnard (review), Kenneth Sibbett (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Norman Rogers (review)
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Jim Lang
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 by Jim Lang - Feb. 13, 2009

This is a reasonably insightful report on the reasons Gregg backed out of the Commerce nomination. The columnist is clearly viewing it from the political right but who better to explore the reasons.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 13, 2009

The story tries to explain why Gregg bailed, but seems to come up with more obfuscations and hypotheses than with answers.

I would guess Gregg did not want to take the heat from other Republicans calling him a traitor for being even a semblance of a bi-partisan. But that is only MY uninformed hypothesis.

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Kenneth Sibbett
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 by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 13, 2009

While not sourced, the article does have Gregg trying to get his foot out his month. While Gregg hasn't distinguished himself, He must have been catching a lot of flack from fellow republicans.

If it was the census, he knew before hand what Obama was going to do. If it was the stimulus, he must have knew it would have a liberal slant. Whats the real deal Greggo?

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Norman Rogers
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 by Norman Rogers - Feb. 14, 2009

Obama is a sleazy Chicago politican - he wants to cook the census.

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Bob Barnard
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 by Bob Barnard - Feb. 13, 2009
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    New York Times by Jeff Zeleny | Feb. 13, 2009 (News Report)
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