Wanted: Commerce Secretary For Quick Confirmation; Convicts Need Not Apply

"I Think I Smell A Rat"

With all the usual class and dignity reserved for cabinet nominees who withdraw their nominations by blindsiding the President while he's off campaigning, Sen. Judd Gregg announced his decision not to serve as Barack Obama's Commerce Secretary.

The problem of course being that as Obama's Commerce Secretary and token cabinet Republican #3, Sen. Gregg “couldn’t be Judd Gregg.” Meaning he would be forced to abandon his terrible ideas and ineffective policies for ones that might actually help people.

Well this proved too much for the man who nobly asked to serve as Obama's commerce secretary in good bipartisan faith to help solve the economic woes and move the country forward.

But that was before he realized he disagreed with the President on everything he stood for, economic policy, included. Well, that and what it means to be a decent, upstanding human being.

So pretty much the Commerce Secretary job is back on the market. All Obama needs to do now is find someone who isn't either a chubby Mexican governor with shady business deals or a back-stabbing weasel with two double consonants in his name.

That doesn't sound too hard, does it?

Oh, What Could Have Been

Hey, Since When Are Men More Qualified To Be Secretaries Than Women?

So it appears the weirdly uncomfortable Obama-Clinton-Richardson trio from the primaries has once again reared its ugly head.

It all started when Gov. Richardson spit on Hillary (and Bill's!) faces by endorsing that nightmarish fairy tale Barack Obama for President, even though the Clinton's basically put his ass on the map by giving him that plum Secretary of Energy gig back in the good days when Bill and Hilly still ran the show.

And now the treacherous Gov. Richardson has decided to throw a wrench in Hillary's plans once again, meeting with Obama over a possible Secretary of State position, the position she rightfully deserved. Bastard!

I mean can you believe the nerve of that man? Waltzing into Sec of State contention, like some oppressed minority trying to "make history" as the first Hispanic to hold such a high-ranking cabinet post. Please.

Let's get one thing straight here, Mr. Richardson. There is only one person left who can truly speak to the plight of the nation's last real struggling minority--female warrior Hillary Rodham Clinton!

Saluting Shattered Glass Ceilings Everywhere