(2009-02-13) — With the announcement that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) has pulled out of his bid to become President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce the Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) as a replacement.
“Sen. Specter is a career lawyer and politician, but he’s a fast learner and could be quickly trained to run the Commerce Department,” said RNC Chairman Michael Steele. “Of course, Republicans would miss his stalwart, reliable voting in the Senate. Conservatives never have to wonder how Arlen Specter will vote.”
White House insiders suggested Sen. Specter could get the same deal from Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, former chair of the Democrat National Committee, that Sen. Gregg made with his state’s Democrat governor — to appoint a Republican replacement once he’s confirmed as Commerce Secretary.
However, Mr. Steele said such a concession would be unnecessary, since replacing Sen. Specter with a Democrat would be an “ideology-neutral” move.
A White House spokesman said Mr. Obama bears no hard feelings toward Judd Gregg, praising his abortive nominee as “a man who paid his taxes on time.”
The administration claims it’s still on-target to fulfill its number one goal for the first 100 days, which is to fill all cabinet posts.
“The president is all about creating and retaining jobs,” said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs. “However, at this pace there is some concern that getting an additional four million people hired may take more than one term of office.”
RNC Chairman Steele said he’s committed to helping the new president fill those jobs, and has also offered Maine Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, whom he recommended as “team players, depending on which team you’re talking about.”
34 responses so far ↓
1 mig // Feb 13, 2009 at 7:58 am
We can count on the Judas Vote of Spector. What we need is a policy of change, to replace the old, tired, failed policies of the last 8 years. What we need are NEW ideas, the new new deal for liberal pet projects, for campaign contributors and workers. We can’t blame Spector for wanting a piece of the action. VT has gainned a shovel. What they’ll be digging is still undetermined; is it short term employment or a grave remains to be seen. But Live for the Moment group members are rejoicing for the moment.
This is the moment that Spector can celebrate. He is really apart of History, he can claim to have been for the “Generational Theft Act of 2009″. Way to be hip Spector! Now if he could just use that Blackberry as well as Obama… he could claim the youth vote.
CC 26 bitter- No, they’re still round eyed but they will be.
2 egospeak // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:02 am
If only… sigh.
3 Hawkeye // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:04 am
Too funny, Scott!
Great line… The administration claims it’s still on-target to fulfill its number one goal for the first 100 days, which is to fill all cabinet posts.
Best regards…
4 Hawkeye // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:07 am
Mig,
“Generational Theft Act of 2009″… I like it!
5 camojack // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:16 am
Mr. Steele said such a concession would be unnecessary, since replacing Sen. Specter with a Democrat would be an “ideology-neutral†move.
Man, you’ve definitely got that
rightcorrect!6 mig // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:22 am
from BL - President Pryor
7 R.A.M. // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:24 am
The truth is, when the “Rahm and Barry show” took away the 2010 census from the Commerce Secretary, there is little left, (no pun intended, I don’t know how to do the “line through” thing like Camo did), for him/her to do except for “sorting socks”, and bowling ball polishing which is the perfect fit for Specter!
Actually, since Obama is not much of a bowler, (or truth teller, door finder, or “baby protecter”), Specter can substitute basketball polishing for bowling ball polishing.
8 gafisher // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:26 am
You’re always good, Scott, but some days you’re even better. This one’s one of the best.
9 boberinyetagain // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:28 am
Funny stuff as always Mr. Ott
10 mig // Feb 13, 2009 at 8:42 am
“You understand that the greatest risk we can take is try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result”, Obamas campaign speech…
Hawkeye, that was from da’bunny… can’t claim it but I can’t think of a better title…
11 R.A.M. // Feb 13, 2009 at 9:43 am
Scott, you did check this story out didn’t you?
After reading it a second time, I found something that is VERY hard to believe.
I guess since you are from Pennsylvania though, I will believe you when you say Specter is a Republican.
Being from Indiana, it is sometimes hard to believe our senior Senator, Dick Lugar is one too!
I still think Olympia Snowe looks like Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
wv: $6 undrilled I sure hope this isn’t a prediction for us not drilling!
12 gafisher // Feb 13, 2009 at 9:57 am
The Gregg withdrawal, followed closely by the Caterpillar CEO’s refutation of Obama’s job-growth promises, joins a fast-growing string of examples suggesting that this is already, as some of our allies are saying, a failed Presidency. We may soon find a new addition to the language, “Baracked,” in such forms as the acronym SNABU.
13 R.A.M. // Feb 13, 2009 at 10:07 am
A few headlines from the D.C. Examiner:
Court documents say father, son fled to Iran after FBI disrupted plans to swindle banks
http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/Court-documents-say-father-son-fled-to-Iran-after-FBI-disrupted-plans-to-swindle-banks-39530992.html
The FBI must get these guys! They will be a perfect fit for Obama’s next two cabinet nominees!
Obama family escapes to Chicago for Valentine’s Day
http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/Obama-family-escapes-to-Chicago-for-Valentines-Day-39550132.html
After over three weeks of being President, doesn’t he deserve a vacation?
At the rate Obama’s vacations are going, he will be on vacation more time than he is in the White House.
I seem to remember libs constantly sniveling about GWB taking vacations, yet I don’t remember ANY for “Valentine’s Day” or ANY three weeks into his Presidency.
At least “Homer” Hussein didn’t bump his head this time climbing on Marine One.
14 Fred Sinclair // Feb 13, 2009 at 10:09 am
From Newsmax:
Their names are well known: Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe from Maine.
New revelations of political wheeling and dealing that helped get these liberal Republicans to betray their colleagues and parties are emerging.
For example, The New York Times reported that Arlen Specter insisted that the “stimulus†include $6.5 billion for “medical research.â€
Yes, that’s $6.5 billion of your money.
Why so much?
The paper says Specter has cancer and he wants more funding for research.
No matter how worthy the cause, Specter’s receipt of a $6.5 billion political payoff proves that this bill was not about stimulus and jobs, but about political shenanigans.
We must hold these Republicans to account.Specter has cancer? And the price of his Republican vote was $6.5 billion.
Wow! Thats even more than the $668 million “He, who is the absence of God” spent to buy the Presidency.
The cost of politics is going up.
Sen. Judd Gregg actually doesn’t have all that great a record as a “Conservative” but in my book he went a long, long, long way in gaining conservative ‘points’ and garnered at least a few more ‘points’ for his home state of “Live Free or Die” New Hampshire. From listening to him, I think the final straw was possibly unconstitutional move of the Census out from the Secretary of Commerce to the Office of the President and his gang of thugs.
Michael Steele (newly elected chief of the RNC) was just on as a ‘fill in’ host for the Bill Bennett Show - as a guest call in, he had Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty who struck me as a good Conservative Governor. I especially was impressed by his honoring Warrant Officer Windorski with half-mast flags.
From Newsmax — February 6, 2009
Saint Paul — Governor Tim Pawlenty has ordered that all U.S. flags and Minnesota flags be flown at half-staff at the Capitol Complex, including state buildings, monuments, and grounds in proximity to and including the Minnesota State Capitol, from sunrise until sunset on Saturday, February 7, 2009, in honor and remembrance of Chief Warrant Officer Three Philip E. Windorski Jr.
15 Maggie // Feb 13, 2009 at 10:10 am
Note to Scott: It worked.
Thank you.
16 Maggie // Feb 13, 2009 at 10:16 am
Good Morning Scrapplers!
It’s good to see you again.
17 wildhowd // Feb 13, 2009 at 10:56 am
As a Pennsylvania I always know which way our dear Senator, Senator Sphincter as we like to call him, will vote, which is opposite of conservative wishes.
18 RedPepper // Feb 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Maggie #16: Nice to see you again too!
wv=economy arson ; I swear there are days when I think reCaptcha is haunted.
19 Hawkeye // Feb 13, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hi Maggie! Best wishes.
20 everthink // Feb 13, 2009 at 1:47 pm
“For example, The New York Times reported that Arlen Specter insisted that the “stimulus†include $6.5 billion for “medical research.â€
Yes, that’s $6.5 billion of your money.
Why so much?
The paper says Specter has cancer and he wants more funding for research.”
Well, now I see this in a whole new light!
If Specter wants benefit for himself, he should pay the entire $6.5 billion out of his own pocket. That way he could sell his the discovery of his research, and possible cure for an exorbitant price, and make it available only to those who pay for it!
That’s the Conservative way!
ET
21 upnorthlurkin // Feb 13, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Dumbo’s nose will soon be as big as his ears at this rate….
Let’s see…
1) No lobbyists in his administration….lie
2)Transparent administration…lie
3)No earmarks/pork in his stimulous bill…lie (well, to call that one a mere lie is to call 2 feet of snow a dusting.
wv 400 plumbers - I don’t know, it just made me laugh….kind of like the last thread where one of the swoop and poop tools talked about hundreds of thousands of injured troops…
22 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I pity the Leftists for assuming that everyone is is-or should be-as twisted as themselves.
Romans 1:20-32
23 Federalist Paupers » Blog Archive » If only // Feb 13, 2009 at 3:04 pm
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24 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 13, 2009 at 3:43 pm
1 day, 22 hours until the Green Flag!
It’s been a long three months.
25 everthink // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Yo,
I was just listening to your crying Minority Leader “Drunky” Boohner, he was saying they are not going to be “The Party of NO”, unless of course they are not allowed to run things.
Drunky and several others went into an adult version of their “what are we going to tell they children” phony dismay.
Hey guy, tell ‘em if you had a clue you should have played it long before Obama. Then, who knows, maybe the voters wouldn’t have thrown out so many of your kind.
While your at it, maybe you should just go ahead and tell ‘em goodbye (with tears of course) because if this economic thing begins to work as planned, the voters will remember your vote today! If it does not, Obama is still a good surgeon, the patient just couldn’t be saved.
While I was out I listened to the “Big Tuba”, I can’t believe you folks don’t get tired of his dirge!
ET
26 upnorthlurkin // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Looks like the Generational Theft Act of 2009 will
Let old people WITHER ON THE VINE AND DIE
(Sorry for yelling and hat tip American Thinker)
27 everthink // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Self Correction: While your you’re at it,
ET, Esq.
28 upnorthlurkin // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:19 pm
How about the wing-dinger of a campaign promise Dumbo was “gonna get you the same great healthcare I got.” Whew! The eloquence is just oozing from this clown….
Uh 0h….the nose is catiching up….
29 JamesonLewis3rd // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Meanwhile…..
30 R.A.M. // Feb 13, 2009 at 4:41 pm
RAM News: B. Hussein Obama, while leaving for a “Valentine’s Day Vacation”, in his Conservative hometown of Chicago, IL, said, “This economic crisis is my number one priority, I just need some “ME” time away from this grueling job. I realize it has only been 3 and a half weeks, but it seems more like a month! I promise not to enjoy my time away from the White House, and also promise I will take no more vacations until President’s Day! Peace out.”
When asked who his daughter’s little friend was who accompanied them on the trip, Obama said, “I don’t know, just some little typical white person. Rahm thought it would be a good idea. Kind of like a “reverse token”.
31 Specter for Gregg | PAWaterCooler.com // Feb 13, 2009 at 6:00 pm
[...] Heh. With the announcement that Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) has pulled out of his bid to become President Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce the Republican National Committee (RNC) today offered Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) as a replacement. [...]
32 Scott Ott // Feb 13, 2009 at 6:35 pm
ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott appeared tonight on PJTV (video) with Jennifer Rubin and Steve Green to discuss the economic stimulus package. It’s free to watch, but you might want to consider subscribing to PJTV.com.
33 MajorDomo // Feb 14, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Yo, ET bo! #20. Listen up!
“For example, The New York Times reported that Arlen Specter insisted that the “stimulus†include $6.5 billion for “medical research.â€
.
Several things wrong here:
1) quoting the NYT in support of your argument;
2) putting your words in someone else’s mouth and attacking it;
3) Specter is no conservative!
And you claim Bush is dumb?!
34 everthink // Feb 15, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Yo, Domo bo! #20. Listen up!
1. I wasn’t quoting the New York Times, although I don’t share your opinion about that newspaper, I was quoting poor old Fred in his post 14.
2. See post 14, poor old Domo.
3. I never said Specter was a conservative, I said “That’s the Conservative way! ” referring to greed, and indifference to the suffering of others.
Yes, I claim Bush is dumb?! But, you’re pretty dumb your own self!
ET
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