{"id":192979,"date":"2009-01-30T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/30\/the-road-to-60-through-the-commerce-department\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T06:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T11:03:00","slug":"the-road-to-60-through-the-commerce-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/30\/the-road-to-60-through-the-commerce-department\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to 60 Through the Commerce Department?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are hearing reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-commerce30-2009jan30,0,1157951.story\">New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg (R) is being considered for Secretary of Commerce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is interesting for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Secretary of Commerce is typically low profile, the last, and possibly <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">only<\/span> &#8220;Rock Star&#8221; Secretary of Commerce was Herbert Hoover.<\/li>\n<li>Gregg is a sitting senator in a state that has become reliably blue, so this might be preferable to his standing for election in 2010.<\/li>\n<li>The governor of New Hampshire is John Lynch, who is a Democrat, and would likely appoint a Democrat to the post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If this is true, then, once the Norm Coleman clown show is done, we would have 60 votes against a filibuster, assuming, of course, that Joe Lieberman doesn&#8217;t knife the Dems in the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are hearing reports that New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg (R) is being considered for Secretary of Commerce. This is interesting for a number of reasons: Secretary of Commerce is typically low profile, the last, and possibly only &#8220;Rock Star&#8221; Secretary of Commerce was Herbert Hoover. Gregg is a sitting senator in a state that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,1173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}