Digg thisDuring the snoozer of a Barackus Caesar Obamus speech in Peoria, Illinois this afternoon, CNN’s “crawl” flashed the news that Senator Judd Gregg had become the second nominee to withdraw from consideration as a potential Commerce Secretary. Which was kind of a buzzkill, since the President was trying to erect a kickstand under the listing idea that his stimulus plan will, you know, help inspire some actual commerce.
Gregg, of course, is a Republican. So it surprised no one when he cited policy differences as his reason for bailing on the Commerce Department job and sticking with life as a Senator. (Countless Commerce Department employees were heard breathing sighs of relief, since Gregg was best known for wanting their whole agency abolished.)
When the Associated Press asked Gregg to share the results of his soul-searching, this is what he came up with:
“For 30 years, I’ve been my own person in charge of my own views, and I guess I hadn’t really focused on the job of working for somebody else and carrying their views, and so this is basically where it came out.”
If I were an arrogant jackass, this is what I might call “a teachable moment.” You see, it’s a really, really good thing that Judd Gregg realized this deep truth about himself and decided to go back to the Senate, where his job has always been to work for somebody else and carry their views.
You know — his constituents? The people of New Hampshire? Memba’ them?
Not that this is a Republican thing or a Democrat thing, mind you. I just don’t think I’ve seen such a good “Exhibit A” for putting term limits inthe U.S. Constitution in a long, long time. Thanks to Deceiver reader Christopher for bringing it to our attention.
By now you’ve heard of Shepard Fairey, right? He’s the guy who did the creepy, Soviet-style “Hope” poster that you can’t avoid no matter where you go. Or if you can avoid it, you can’t avoid all the parodies. (There’s even a site called 
PETA isn’t shelling out to advertise with Perez Hilton
