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Judd Gregg: Stop the Sweetness and Light

by: susanthe

Tue Mar 23, 2010 at 19:55:11 PM EDT
Old empathetic Judd strikes again.

Here he is in the WaPo complaining about the jobs bill:

"Why do we keep doing this?" asked Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). "Why do we keep passing debt on to our children? Why do we keep running program after program out here that is shrouded in sweetness and light but not paid for?"

I'm no economist - but even I know that the economy isn't going anywhere unless people have jobs. Once again, deficit peacock Gregg brings his usual level  bold expertise to solving the financial problems of our nation. That expertise  would seem to consist of preening and calling attention to himself. Stay tuned for Judd's next public statement to the unemployed here in the Granite State: "Let them eat cake."  
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Judd Gregg: Stop the Sweetness and Light | 7 comments
Because we have to dig out of (4.00 / 7)
eight years of wild overspending under Republican rule that pissed away the Clinton surplus and put the nation on the edge of a Great Depression.

What, Judd? It was a rhetorical question? Sorry.

language & Freedumbrob alert (0.00 / 0)
this jerk(I decided against calling him a douchebag) is leading the Senate Republicans on Reconciliation of the Health Care Bill...maybe because he doesn't have to worry about re-election ?
http://www.unionleader.com/art...
In an interview, the New Hampshire senator said he and his fellow Senate Republicans held out little hope of killing or derailing health care reform. Instead, he said, they are trying to slow the process, improve a "terrible" initiative and get the Democrats on the record for later use as the mid-term election campaigns ramp up.

"The damage has been done," Gregg said. He said the goal of bringing up numerous amendments to the reconciliation bill is focused on "making the point of bad policy. Sure, we hope we can win some of these but I don't see that stopping the process."Gregg called the Democratic effort a radical expansion of government, "an extraordinarily aggressive push to the left by people who genuinely don't believe in market economies," and "the worst form of the adulteration of the openness of the constitutional process that I've ever seen."


President Obama was elected in a 55-45 landslide, and the campaign was about Health Care Reform. The r's never thought they would be in this position. I feel that what Judd is doing to screw up the process for political gain is akin to treason. They should be Patriotic not idiotic.

Annie 2012!
It's not about gain. It's about grandstanding. (4.00 / 1)
"Preening" is an excellent word.

Besides, I still suspect that Gregg sees himself as a presidential contender--a skinny white guy with big ears and an impressive resumé of public service.

The man with too many consonants lives in a world where "pick me, pick me" gets you noticed and picked.  Look what it did for Bart Stupak recently.

Republicans complain because Democrats like taking care of problems.

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Short memories. (0.00 / 0)
Some people like to pretend that, 14 months since George Bush left office, his legacy has been washed away and any rough patches our ship of state faces cannot possibly be his fault.

We need to get our political narrative straight, lest the truth hamper right-wing talking points.

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@DougLindner

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From Reuters: Gregg said. "We have suggested a series of amendments that will significantly improve this bill."

Oh no, they're not designed to kill the bill.

It's so Twilight Zone-ish to hear people with no conscience say words with zero credibility. Yet he goes on.  

No'm Sayn?

NH owes the rest of the country (4.00 / 1)
an apology, for inflicting Judd Gregg upon them all these years.  

member of the professional left  
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Hey, if people can't appreciate (0.00 / 0)
performance art - created by a whole electorate no less! - the  philistines get no apology.
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