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Posted on 05/12/2010 1:02:21 PM PDT by Publius
WA Gov. Christine Gregoire (D) leads a short list to replace Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the WH has told members of Gregoire's home-state delegation.
Gregoire, a 2-term incumbent and a former WA AG, has been a rumored contender for other admin positions. But the WH has informed top aides to WA members that she is under serious consideration, according to several sources inside the delegation.
An admin official confirmed Gregoire's name is one of those being considered. Gregoire endorsed candidate Obama just before the WA caucuses in '08, offering a helping hand as Obama picked up two-thirds of the state's delegates.
Gregoire's appointment would elevate LG Brad Owen (D), a conservative Dem who has held his largely ceremonial post since '96. Several more prominent Dems have been angling to run for the state's top job in '12, when Gregoire was expected to pass on a third term.
WA insiders put Rep. Jay Inslee (D) at the top of the Dem list. Snohomish Co. Exec. Aaron Reardon (D) and Rep. Adam Smith (D) are also mentioned as potential contenders. On the other side, ex-state Sen. Dino Rossi (R), who lost twice to Gregoire by narrow margins, is the most popular GOPer in the state, but Dem strategists are most worried about AG Rob McKenna (R), who covets the job.
If Gregoire makes the cut, she would immediately be in position to land on another short list -- the solicitor general, who represents the government before the Supreme Court, is sometimes called the 10th Justice, and those who hold the job are often considered potential SCOTUS nominees. Obama has reportedly told top aides he wants to be the first president to appoint 3 women to the high court. Several other women -- most notably District Court Judge Diane Wood, MI Gov. Jennifer Granholm and DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano -- have been on Obama's radar as possible SCOTUS picks too.
Gregoire would also be the latest in a series of WA officials to move to DC. Ex-Gov. Gary Locke serves as Commerce Sec. Ex-King Co. Exec. Ron Sims, who finished second behind Gregoire in the '04 Dem primary, is the number 2 official at HUD. And ex-Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske heads the Office of National Drug Control Policy.
The nose gets bigger as we age. Also, since the cheeks sag with age, the nose appears larger, too.
....oh, sorry!
I’ve met Gregoire several times. She’s a complete and total idiot.
Seriously. She’s worthless.
God, I’m torn between the overwhelming desire to get rid of her in any way possible and the fear of inflicting her on the rest of the U.S.
She fell off the ugly tree and was hit by every branch on the way down. Macbeth’s cronies wouldn’t go to her for beauty advice.
She’s obviously not ignorant as she has manipulated her way into the top spot in the state. She can’t have given THAT many blow jobs to get that far. Besides, with her looks, who’d let her get close to their crown jewels?
She’s run this state into the ground and she’s trying to figure out how to dig sub-basements to take it into. If she was chosen to go to the other Wash., the collective IQ of this state would rise several points, like it did when Locke and Sims left.
The only thing I can think of is that instead of being able to run this state further into the dumpster, she’d be in a much bigger bureaucracy and thus may not have as much negative influence overall. That is, if she wasn’t appointed to the (shudder!) Supr. Ct. As Solicitor General, she could at least be replaced by a new administration.
But then, God forbid, she’d probably come back here and screw us again. I can’t see that there’s any advantage to anywhere that left wing hag is.
That’s how I read it, too. Would it have killed the headline writer to add “as Solicitor General” at the end?
Because people actually want those to be based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin (or gender)
UNLESS
It’s you making the decision. Then you can discriminate all you want.
why are all far left women looking like old ugly nagging women with no style or class
Oh, you have GOT to be *expletive* kidding me!!!!
I was sleeping (did an overnight shift) and got up to see THIS.
(Seattle radio host) Dori Monson’s head has likely exploded. He hates that woman.
There are already a few Washington (State) liberals in Zero’s government. I mean...we already have former governor Gary Locke as Sec. of Commerce, former Seattle police chief Gil Kerlikowske as Drug Czar, former King County Executive Ron Sims as the Deputy Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development...and now they want Queen Christine as Solicitor General.
It makes me sick.
b’tards
I thought about that...but the choice isn't ours to make...that one sits in Obama's hands. So, if he taps her, great, and good riddance. If he doesn't, the nation is better off for it.
Ha!!! The proof of stupidity in this administration knows no bounds.
I have mixed emotions about this.
On one hand, it gets her out of our state and she’ll no longer be able to reak the hovac she has on the state budget and politics.
She is easily one of the worst politicians I’ve ever seen in action. I mean she’s world class bad. She is without a doubt the worst governor this state has ever had.
To sum up her performance. When she was the state AG, she mis-managed settlement money which cost the state millions in lost revenue.
Then after three recounts, she entered the governors mansion with a very respectible budget surplus. Then she made quick work of destroying it. She immediatly rewarded her union buddies by raising salaries of government workers, service unions, and forced more private jobs to join the unions. She’s done everything possible to drive Boeing out of town by 110% backing the unions during any strikes or labor renegotiations. She even goes out and walks the picket lines during strikes for photo ops.
She also created one of the most corrupt democratic deals I’ve ever seen unleashed. She cracked a deal with the states Indian casinos were they don’t have to pay any part of their revenue to the state, in exchange, they have become the biggest financial backers of the state DNC and election campaigns. This means millions in lost state revenue every year.
So now fastforward to two years into her second term. The state is now facing a over 10 billion dollar budget deficit. She refuses to make cuts to government spending because all her union buddies would get upset.
When you look at her history of utter failure, corruption, and incompetence, I can’t help but worry about what it would mean if she was made SG and given that level of power. That puts her one step away from the Supreme Court. Someone that bad at what she does, it could cause serious damage to this entire nation.
It’s a very tough choice for me.
Gregoire and Kagan agree 99.9 percent of the time, aqnd the only explanation for the .1 percent is that one forgot how to vote on an issue.
That’s right, they’re all moonbats, but as the late Senator Roman Hurska, R-NE, could have said, “even moonbats need representation too.”
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Why not really make history and have the entire SCOTUS replaced by a politboro?
Pretty near there already.
She is certainly fugly enough, is she gay enough?
That lying voter fraud specialist of the North west?
God help us. Having suffered through two terms with this liberal, wacko, incompetent person, the idea of her serving a life time appointment on the Supreme Court scares me to no end.
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