What Is Sen. Judd Gregg Thinking?

Republican Senator Gregg from New Hampshire over the weekend is likely to be taking President Obama's offer for Sec of Commerce. What in the heck is he thinking?

I like Judd Gregg and he is pretty bright. (I thought) But why is giving the DEMS a now filibuster proof Senate for Sec of Commerce?

Mickey Kaus put it so well

Gregg's Vanity
What could Sen. Judd Gregg possibly do in a second-tier cabinet position--Commerce--to advance his conservative philosophy that would possibly make up for giving his ideological opponents a 60-seat majority in the Senate? Stop card check? Achieve a free trade agenda? ... Quick, name Bush's last Commerce secretary. ... Even if New Hampshire's Democratic governor angers his party by appointing a Republican to replace Gregg, will it be an anti-card-check Republican? ... Gregg could go down as the biggest sucker since Arthur Goldberg, who let Lyndon Johnson con him into giving up a lifetime Supreme Court seat to become Ambassador to the U.N. ... 1:16 P.M.

Maybe he digs the census? Perhaps he thinks he can sneak in an extra 600,000 people in New Hampshire and get his state an extra Rep?

I understand reaching across the aisle and bipartisan Cabinets. But Sec of Commerce. Perhaps President Obama should have been more conservative and just offered him the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Maybe he would have taken that.


Strangely NRO and their hyperactive Corner blog has not even mention we lost a GOP Senator over the weekend