I was worried when he was nominated to be Commerce Secretary. He was a bad choice. I am relieved that he has backed out.
The trouble with including Republicans in the Obama Cabinet is that there are very few of them who are not involved in scandal. As Jack said:
"Any important Republican who comes out and says they didn’t know me is almost certainly lying," he says. Such lies are not just, well, lies, but dumb to boot, he adds, for, as his own humiliations suggest, old e-mails never die; they just sit on hard drives, waiting to be subpoenaed and then to be leaked to the press. "This is not an age when you can run away from facts," he declares. "I had to deal with my records, and others will have to deal with theirs."
We dodged a bullet on this one.
Judd Gregg and the Republican Party did not. They have cause for concern. The scandals of the Gingrich/DeLay/Bush era are not going away. More details will leak out.
This Culture of Corruption requires a through investigation. Without one, the toxic players spawned by the K Street Project will infect the politics of our Nation for decades to come. I am glad to see a revitalized DOJ under Eric Holder, but I think we need a Special Prosecutor to investigate, expose and punish this crime wave of political corruption.
It is time for the truth and way past time for justice.
