**Gregg speaking now** n/t.

[Parker CA]

[K Gardner]

1. OMG.. what a lowlife scum-sucking dickwad !!

[Numba6]

25. naahhh, it's too close to Valentine's Day

Just a Valentine's Day Kiss Off

[City Lights]

2. His voice is cracking. nt

[Hieronymus]

3. What the Fuck did Gregg think his job would have been?

[AspenRose]

4. Asshole.

[Parker CA]

5. His voice in shaking more than leaves in tornados. Something isn't right about this.

He's praising Obama. Saying there will be a lot of issues where he can carry Obama's water on issues and be even more effective in Senate than in office as CS.

It's as if he's wired with an explosive that will be set off if he doesn't say the right things. He's not confident in anything he's saying. His body language is all a show of shame and disgust in himself.

[City Lights]

8. I agree. I've heard him speak and he sounds extremely nervous right now.

Wonder what's up...

[maddezmom]

17. I wonder if any of the Abramoff stuff is coming back to haunt him

And finally this week, as if tax-avoiding federal appointees weren’t bad enough for Obama, it looks like his pick for Commerce Secretary, Judd Gregg, also has some skeletons in his closet. Well, actually that closet belongs to his former aide, Kevin Koonce. Koonce received all sorts of gifts from Abramoff and his staff, including front-row tickets to a hockey game, meals, drinks, and other tickets to a baseball game. In exchange, Abramoff received special favors in spending legislation. The total value of these gifts exceeded the ten thousand dollar mark. But this staffer isn’t the only bad apple from Gregg’s group. Gregg's former chief of staff, Joel Maioli, was reported to have been involved in another Abramoff-related shenanigan. Former Republican State Committee executive director, and convicted phone jammer, Chuck McGee, has claimed under oath that Maiola personally delivered checks totaling $15,000 from the Mississippi Choctaw and Agua Calienti tribes to the New Hampshire Republican State Committee office a week before the 2002 election. Both of these tribes were clients of Abramoff. Abramoff, who was once a top GOP lobbyist, is now in prison and has cooperated with the Justice Department to help convict more than a dozen people, including former Representative Bob Ney from Ohio, former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles, and a number of former lobbyists and Capitol Hill aides.

http://www.ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/?tag=/golefttv

Former Gregg staffer caught up in Abramoff corruption probe
By Associated Press
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - Added 8d 3h ago


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WASHINGTON — A former congressional aide to Commerce Secretary-nominee Judd Gregg has been caught up in a long-running investigation into a lobbying scandal.

A person familiar with the case confirmed today that "Staffer F" in court documents is Kevin Koonce, who worked as legislative director in Gregg’s Senate office from 2002-04. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the case is still under investigation.

Staffer F was cited in a guilty plea last week by Todd Boulanger, a former deputy to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In federal court, Boulanger admitted he plied the staffer with front-row tickets to a hockey game and other tickets to a baseball game, and in exchange received favors in spending legislation.


more:http://www.bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view/2009_02_04_Former_Gregg_staffer_caught_up_in_Abramoff_corruption_probe/

[Dappleganger]

6. What a spineless fuckwad.

[Thrill]

Its hard to not hate Republicans.

[Window]

22. It is, indeed, Thrill. They have always been disgusting, and the strong black man

we have chosen to be our President is driving them crazy. They can't tell their ass from a hole in the ground.

[K Gardner]

7. He sounds like he's thanking people for his Oscar. Lying jerk.

[Phx_Dem]

9. He sounds very nervous or scared -- probably of his GOP-mates.

They probably threatened his wife and kids.

He sounds like a third-grader giving his first oral report in class.

[Pirate Smile]

10. What.An.Asshole.

I am glad he wont be in the cabinet though.

[Fleshdancer]

11. he's not making ANY sense

He's contridicting himself left and right. WTF is the real deal here?

:wtf:

[Parker CA]

16. I think those who claimed he's being pressured might be right. He's ashamed and disgusted with

himself. He won't look up for more than a few seconds at a time. His head is down, his voice is quivering endlessly. His lips are drawn in tight and jaw is very tense. He seems like he's reciting lines and pre-planned dialogue that are not his. The fixed eyes while speaking tell me he is trying to remember what he's supposed to be saying. Definitely suspect.

[Hieronymus]

12. I'm wondering if Gregg got pressured from the Repugs.

[demo dutch]

18. duh!

[tanyev]

23. Cheney probably dug through one of his man-sized safes and found something on him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. He's a real shitkicker, ain't he?

He'll get beaten like a toy drum if he runs in 2010.

[firedupdem]

14. He's shaking like a leaf. n/t

[AspenRose]

15. Perhaps someone in the GOP Mafia got to him.

:shrug: Probably got a picture of a horse's head or something.

[demo dutch]

19. You can tell that he's lying! showing all the classic signs

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Yup! 1. He's a repuke, 2. His lips are moving

That does it every time.

[opihimoimoi]

21. I keep saying ya can't trust those Pubs...they be just as bad as those bankers who are also PUBS

[rainbow4321]

24. Saw clips of his announcement...

Something ain't right. Which GOPer dug thru this guy's skeletal closet? You know they gotta have dirt on each other. Guess this is what it has come to? Any repuke willing to be bipartisan will have to deal with repuke blackmail?