Bonnie Newman - REPUBLICAN - named to fill Gregg's seat.

[Stinky The Clown]

I don't give a fucking rats ass if she sez she's not going to run.

I can't believe this was not a quid pro quo.

Does the average NH voter like this?

Fuck this fuck this fuck this fuck this.

C'mon ..... tell me how I'm wrong ...... I know you can do it .......

[Taverner]

1. No talking down here...

This is fucked up

The cheerleader, however, is hot...

[SteppingRazor]

2. It's public knowledge that there was quid pro quo here.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/02/03/cabinet_deal_is_set_for_gregg/

As for her running, who cares? She's way more vulnerable in 2010 than even Gregg would have been, and he was going to have a hard time of it. At this point, assuming NH Dems find a decent replacement, this seats a gimme pickup.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Don't we impeach governors for quid pro quos vis a vis senate appointments?

Yeah ... I know ....... different facts.

What the fuck ever.

[SteppingRazor]

7. way different facts.

Nobody's getting paid here.

I don't like it necessarily, but it's not illegal. And besides which, as I stated, Newman's toast in two years.

[Stinky The Clown]

3. Ms. Newman:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=J.+Bonnie+Newman+called+tough%2c+smart&articleId=00cb6bc0-296c-451a-922f-f3af098a769c&loc=interstitialskip

Newman, 63, was Sen. Judd Gregg's chief of staff when he was in the U.S. House in the 1980s. She has a long resume in the private and public sectors, highlighted by her roles as assistant to the President for management and administration in the George H.W. Bush White House, an assistant commerce secretary in the Reagan administration, interim president of the University of New Hampshire and executive dean at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

More at the link above

[SteppingRazor]

4. She was also one of Gov. Lynch's first supporters among NH Republicans. n/t

[Terran]

6. Well, apparently the "average NH voter"

voted for Gregg, a Republican. So possibly choosing another Republican is a nod in that direction. Sure, we all would have liked a Dem there, but would the average NH voter have liked that? I kind of doubt it.

[SteppingRazor]

9. Yeah, in 2004. But that ignores the 2006 and 2008 election cycles...

which saw NH go from almost entirely red to almost entirely blue. While I don't think there's anything wrong, legally or even ethically, with what happened here, I do think that Newman doesn't necessarily reflect the current outlook of the NH voter.

[Terran]

14. Still, I think they should get that chance themselves in 2010

and not have one person make the decision for them. It just seems more ethical, somehow.

[SteppingRazor]

15. I don't necessarily disagree, and I think Newman's toast in 2010 anyway. n/t

[Raven]

11. The "average voter" in NH recently threw out a Repub Senator and

2 Repub Congressmen and made the Statehouse Democratic controlled for the first time in 100 years. There has been a sea change up here since 2000 mostly thanks to GWB.

[Winterblues]

21. I am of the opinion that having Governors appoint senate replacements

Should be done away with. Let the people decide and then there won't be any questions of corruption or cronyism. As Blogo said, this is a valuable thing here and something that shouldn't be just given away. Something was traded here but we will never know what..

[Raven]

8. Lynch wants the seat. I've got to believe he has a promise or

he knows she's a no go in 2010. Paul Hodes is the one who's got to be pissed.

[cherish44]

10. Gregg isn't in yet you know

I mean I doubt Dems would vote against Obama but maybe some of them are feeling a little Mavericky about nomination...

[gcomeau]

12. And?

Republican leaves, Republican replaces them. Is the average voter who voted FOR the Republican in the first place going to have a problem with it? My guess would be... no. What would make you think they would have a problem with it? Try to keep a sense of perspective, the population of New Hampshire is not exactly the population of DU only bigger.

Would it have been nice to have a Democrat in the position? Yes. Would trying to install one under these specific circumstances have likely blown up in our faces? Also yes.

Calm down. It's not ideal but it's not anything to go into a frothing rant about either. We run someone for the position in 2 years and we have a better chance of taking it now than against a long time entrenched incumbent. And from all reports Newman will vote more moderately than Gregg would have. So we didn't get ponies too... I'm sure we'll survive somehow.

[Warpy]

13. Promising Gregg that he'd be replaced by a GOP

was the only way they could get him to take the job.

C'mon, Stinky, you know this is how it works!

[Stinky The Clown]

18. Which, of course, begs the question .......

.... why Gregg?

[Fire1]

16. You're not wrong. All of them are not as stupid as we would like

to believe, that's all.

[John Kerry VonErich]

17. Lets call it for what it is....

NH got blackmailed by its own senator turned commerce sec. designate.

[madrchsod]

19. oh well... new hampshire in 2010 .....?

wait till lahood runs for the senate in illinois in 2010 then the shit will hit the fan.

[Hawkeye-X]

20. WHO? WHO'S TAKING OVER NANCE GREGG'S SEAT?!!

I'M TELLING YOU IT'S A CONSPIRACY, DAMMIT!

[Duer 157099]

22. Well here's what I think

Having had the first initial same reaction you have.

Frankly I think Obama should stop his *whatever-he's-doing* with the Repugs, but clearly he's not listening to me, so forget that option. It's frikken ironic that someone with an actual mandate doesn't know how to really work it. Oh well.

So Obama must be thinking something - I doubt he's dumb enough to have thought this was a good way to get to 60, so let's cross that one off too.

Maybe he really is looking down the line at that seat - Gregg apparently was firmly entrenched, and very conservative - so freeing up the seat for someone less entrenched and less conservative, and ultimately (in 2010) to get an actual Dem elected to the seat?

That's the only (admittedly weak) rationalization I can come up with.

:shrug:

[Zorra]

23. Why bother voting against republicans when Obama can just appoint them?

Resistance is, apparently, futile.
:puke:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

24. Sha-boing boing

You were saying?

Oh.

Sup Holmes. :) :hug:

Ugly as it is, it had better work.

[Bucky]

25. Wow, that Bonnie Newman looks HOT! But are we sure she's 30 yet?

Hopefully she won't wear that cheerleader outfit in the Senate. We don't want to lose Robert Byrd.