"Take the Sec. of Commerce job or we will run someone strong against you will be out of a job in 2010. At least at Commerce you will have the job as long as you like, and will make lots of connections in business who will give you a good job when you leave. Otherwise, in two years you are simple going to be a defeated U.S. Senator."
They made him an offer he could not refuse.
Political Brilliance.
Look at Ratheon/BAE in Nashua and Portsmouth/Kittery Naval shipyard to get bug cuts in orders in Judd doesn’t accept. That is the real game Obama and Rahm play!
Yeah, but his soul would be intact. For some this actually still means something.
Except for the part about blaming Gregg when the currency goes to hell and firing him in 16 months? ;)