So the US Attorney for NH will arrest the governor before his morning jog tomorrow?

[RB TexLa]

And if he offers any defense our little ethics choir will declare him to be a "mental case"?

[Juche]

1. What did I miss

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Yeah, me, too. I suddenly feel like I've been away for a year.

I have no idea what that's about.

[The Straight Story]

3. It's obvious

After some good weed and a bottle of rum :)

[Poll_Blind]

5. I can never get the order right on those- always makes things fuzzier.

Not that I give up trying, mind you. :)

PB

[RB TexLa]

6. US Senator Bonnie Newman R-New Hampshire

WASHINGTON (AFP) – New Hampshire Governor John Lynch Tuesday named a Republican state official to take the Senate seat of President Barack Obama's pick for commerce secretary, preserving the chamber's balance of power.

State officials said Lynch, a Democrat, had appointed his former chief of staff Bonnie Newman to the seat being vacated by Republican Senator Judd Gregg, who was nominated earlier in the day to join Obama's cabinet.

The decision to appoint the Republican Newman until elections in 2010 came after Gregg's insistence to Lynch that his departure from Congress should not upset the Senate's current composition.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090203/pl_afp/useconomytradeobamacommercesenate_20090203223302

[spanone]

9. a little quip pro quo

[flvegan]

4. I don't jog with you!!

[RB TexLa]

7. I don't recall asking you to.

[gcomeau]

8. Please learn the difference...

...between "pay for play" and a politically negotiated settlement that has nothing to do with personally materially benefiting either party involved.

You're making a fool of yourself here.

[ThomWV]

10. What was settled?

This mystifies me - just what is it that we settled for? We had a presumable Democratic Cabinet position and a Republican Senator. Now we have a Republican Senator and a Republican in t he Senate seat. Generally when something is settled it means there is some sort of equitible distribution of a prize - looks to me like we lost it all. So tell me again how its different that one man gets paid off than if the oppositon Party gets paid off.

[gcomeau]

12. Obama got the person he wanted.

That person got the assurance that they would be replaced by someone they found acceptable.

This isn't rocket science.

[Ocracoker16]

11. Thanks for pointing out the difference