Another cabinet appointee won't become secretary after all. This time the appointee for Commerce, Judd Gregg (R-NH), has withdrawn his name because he could see he would have to support too many policies in which he didn't believe. How refreshing, a nominee about whom there are alleged no failure-to-pay-tax problems.
The MSM is playing it down but it looks to me like he also bailed because he learned that he wouldn't have effective supervisory control of the 2010 census. How the census is done has far-reaching political implications. Artificially inflating the actual count to increase the apparent numbers of new immigrants and minorities who avoid being counted benefits one party over the other.
I expect Gregg believed he'd have trouble being reelected in New Hampshire; a formerly conservative state which is becoming more liberal as Massachusetts leftists move north. Seeing that, perhaps he thought being Cabinet Secretary would be interesting for a few years. That is, until he saw what kind of left-wing nonsense it would require him to put his name on.
