A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing ...

Well, perhaps this was Thud Gregg's big master plan to shut down the Commerce Department.

Gregg Withdraws His Commerce Nomination

However, it has become apparent during this process that this will not work for me as I have found that on issues such as the stimulus package and the Census there are irresolvable conflicts for me. Prior to accepting this post, we had discussed these and other potential differences, but unfortunately we did not adequately focus on these concerns. We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy.

Obviously the President requires a team that is fully supportive of all his initiatives.

WTF?

He only had about two-years to form some kind of idea the type of policies and programs that would be in an Obama Administration.

Not to mention he is a broom-up-the-ass "fiscally conservative" Republican (and from that "Live Free or Die" oasis of New Hampshire).

What happened - did he park in 30-years experience and all those principles he carries around somewhere and couldn't remember where, while he courted a cabinet post?

Did he think that, with Obama's quest for bipartisanship, he was just going to let Thud Gregg run wild in Commerce, continue the Bush Grindhouse program?

What a fuckin' bozo!

In the meantime, filling the Commerce seat is becoming, more-and-more, harder than getting a prom date for the president of the Science Club.

So there, Obama Team, ABC.

A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing ...


Glengarry Glen Ross speech




Bonus "My Sister/My Daughter" Thud Gregg Riffs

John Aravosis (DC): Now Obama only has two Republican cabinet members serving in a Democratic administration - pretty tragic blow to bipartisanship

DougJ: How many Washington wise men does it take to screw an administration?

Prairie Weather: Another war of choice -- in spite of deep recession

Digby: Who's Your Daddy?

Thomas Edsall: Judd Gregg's Refusal To Vote On Stimulus Provokes Firestorm At Home And In Washington

Top Ten Cloves: Ways President Obama Can Better Sell His Stimulus Package

News Item: Live Blogging the Obama News Conference

10. Get Alex Rodriguez back (??) using steroids to jump start the economy!

9. Have a prime-time Press Conference ... Oh ... Never mind

8. If he can wrestle him away from the Republicans, Billy Mays! ("Look at this Stimulus Package! ...)

7. Auction his Blackberry email address, and you won't need a Stimulus Package

6. Nominate someone new, with a tax problem, to take some of the heat off

5. See if Captain Sullenberger can land a plane in the Potomac, so he can suck up the PR, giving him Key to the City

4. Give everyone a new Kindle to jump start the economy!

3. Bernie Madoff is just hanging around the house, doing nothing ... He should be able to move it

2. He can write up 25 things about it and post it to Facebook

1. In ultimate show of bipartisanship, and win support, offer Rush Limbaugh that he will, for real, nominate him for Nobel Peace Prize