Too bipartisan? Judd Gregg comes up short as potential Commerce Secretary

Compromise reveals that one has no principles to stand on. Compromise with Republicans repudiates what we learned from Munich--you cannot compromise with fascists.

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If Obama is so into "reaching out" and "inclusion", then why do I feel so utterly left out? I worked for him; donated money to him; angered family and colleagues for him, and voted for him - but clearly doesn't give a crap about me or ALL the people who worked, donated, argued, and voted beside me.

He can "reach out" to the Free Market Fundamentalists and War Mongers who have brought our country so low, but he can't seem to bring himself to hire a single advisor or make a single appointment that disagrees in any way with the short-sighted, destructive staus quo.

Where the hell are the Lefties??

Ken Duerksen
Oxford, Ohio

Please; what do you think the crowd of Democrats would do with something like that? They'd crow about it, hold it up as a symbol of their political success, and then cave in to the dwindling caucus of Republicans at every possible opportunity.

Its really not because they are scared or stupid; its because the corporatist platform is personally profitable to whatever politician helps to promote it, and very troublesome to those who buck the system. All We The People can offer a legislator is respect, a few bucks now and then as elections near, and a modest UMC salary. The Corporatocracy can provide reliable influx of serious funding, cushy jobs after office, and can sway any number of interests to the benfit of the unobtrusive politician. Republicans embrace this latter arrangement openly, Democrats do so in shame, with forked tongues, and probably with many uneasy nights.

But Pelosi, Reid, Bayh, and Stoyer are simply unwilling to destroy that potential cash cow, that rewards so vastly for so very little work - all you have to do is betray the American People in favor of Walmart or Exxon or ADM or Phiser. I'm afraid Obama is hesitating at this door, and all of his advisors are trying to push him through.

Ken Duerksen
Oxford, Ohio

The only plausible excuse for Obama chasing after Gregg so hard and not going for the supermajority in the Senate smacks of back room dealing designed to sell out the country. I sincerely hope I'm wrong.

...to attract the rank & file folk who call themselves Conservative but hold very liberal preferences without realizing it. That needs doing even more than it is being done, especially in framing the issues to enhance their support (something Obama did well in the campaign but appears to have forgotten now.

Unfortunately leaning over the other way to support The Republican & K Street GOP program only reinforces their negative images and assign the Gang Of Pirates to the Liberals of all stripes, and Government as useless as well

All people standing tall against the Gang Of Pirates of any stripe needs to be the REAL bipartisan center.

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If the Gang Of Pirates think that the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat, only a fool would think it bipartisan to accommodate them.

I understand the political strategy, but when you consider the corrupt party that's run this country into the ground, you know they're not going to play the game according to your rules. Time to play hardball. The amount of cooperation we've gotten from the Republicans so far = ZIP. They've clearly let the country know they have no intention of doing anything outside their Republican agenda. If it doesn't serve ONLY them and their rich cronies, then they won't agree to it. I say it's time to start running things the way they ran it ... DON'T GIVE IN TO THEM FOR ANYTHING. Their tax cuts for the rich and catering to corporations and allowing the corruption to flourish is what put this country down the toilet. They used muscle and fear to further their agenda. We need to cut them off at the pass.

Michelle must not be aware of Gregg's past stance on the education of American citizens: "Import the educated - it's cheaper".

Both Gregg and Def Sec. Gates believe we should open up our borders and allow an "infinite" number of educated foreigners to take good American jobs, because we're too stupid -in Math and Science in particular - and therefore it would be cheaper to grant the visas instead of educating our own and giving the jobs to our own.

The con artists/insiders of the Democratic party are at it again if you believe the b.s. about Obama "helping t the 60 filibuster-proof" majority line.

This is all about Obama, Rahm and Hillary taking away from the Left and giving more up to the Right.

That's called Pay to Play - the K-Street way.

Hoyer better kiss his fat a** goodby- because in 2010 he won't have the roots to kick around -again.

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