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Here is video of Sen. Judd Gregg talking with Greta Van Susteren last night, where he said President Obama is taking America "sharply to the Left." Gregg rightly points out that Obama is seeking to expand the government in unprecedented ways. He says "irresponsible" is a good word for what Obama is doing. . . . . . . (Watch Video)

When it came time to introduce his latest amendment to the President's proposed budget, Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and his Senate colleagues couldn't resist cracking a few jokes. Gregg introduced an amendment on the Senate floor yesterday that would have required 60 votes, a "supermajority," to pass any budget that would rack up as much or more debt in the next 10 years than has already accumulated between 1789 -- the birth of the federal government -- and Jan. 20, 2009 -- the birth of the Barack Obama presidency. Gregg's office said the publicly held federal debt amassed from 1789...

Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) Delivers Weekly Republican Address Republican National Committee logo. (PRNewsFoto/Republican National Committee) WASHINGTON, DC UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, March 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Republican National Committee:U.S. Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) delivers the weekly Republican address. Enclosed below is a link to the audio file, YouTube link to the video, and text of the address. Please note that the YouTube link will go live once the embargo is lifted. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080519/RNCLOGO) NOTE: The address is embargoed until 6:00 a.m. on Saturday. Audio of the address is available here. Video of the address is...

... Republicans are in a tizzy because Democrats are threatening to use the budgetary procedure known as reconciliation — it reconciles policy with fiscal guidelines — to overhaul the health care system, possibly enact climate change legislation and rewrite education policy. They have good reason to fret: If Democrats successfully invoke reconciliation, such major bills could pass by a simple majority vote, denying Republicans the filibuster, their sole remaining weapon to influence federal policy given the Democratic grip on government. “It stinks,” Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said as he pondered the prospect of Democrats pulling the trigger on...

Republicans say the path to prosperity is not the excessive spending proposed by President Barack Obama but limited spending that holds down the growth of government, taxes and debt. ''We believe you create prosperity by having an affordable government that pursues its responsibilities without excessive costs, taxes or debt,'' Sen. Judd Gregg said Saturday in the GOP radio and Internet address. Gregg, who was offered the job of Obama's commerce secretary but withdrew his name, has become one of the toughest critics of Obama's handling of the economy. ''In the next five years, President Obama's budget will double the national...

The budget deficit will quadruple in 2009 to $1.75 trillion. Obama's budget will add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016 and the public debt level would DOUBLE over the next decade to $15.6 trillion. The annual interest on this debt will equal the ENTIRE U.S. defense budget by 2019. Domestic discretionary spending (including stimulus funds) has been hiked over 80 percent over 2008 levels. At 67 percent of GDP, this constitutes a debt burden that could entail imminent collapse.

Sen. Gregg Criticizes 'Banana Republic' Budget Proposal The ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee warned on Monday that President Obama's budget proposal will lead to unsustainable debt levels and send the country on a fiscal path resembling that of a "banana republic." Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., offered a grim assessment of the $3.6 trillion proposal following a report over the weekend that found the budget plan would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade. "The president's budget spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much. ... I don't...

As Democrats prepared to unleash a massive public relations blitz to reassure wary voters Barack Obama’s budget is good for the nation, the man Mr. Obama previously picked to head the Commerce Department told CNN the budget would bankrupt the nation. “The practical implications of this is bankruptcy for the United States,” U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., said of the Obama administration’s recently released budget. “There’s no other way around it. If we maintain the proposals that are in this budget over the 10-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt. People will not buy our debt,...

Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, formerly Obama's nominee for Secretary of Commerce, explains how Obama's BEST-CASE scenario will bankrupt our country, and that "no system of government" could support these deficits.

WASHINGTON – Congressional Republicans on Sunday predicted a doomsday scenario of crushing debt and eventual federal bankruptcy if President Barack Obama's massive spending blueprint wins passage.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Even though he was almost a member of the new Obama administration, New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg Sunday slammed President Obama’s approach to handling the country’s fiscal outlook. “The practical implications of this is bankruptcy for the United States,” Gregg said of the Obama’s administration’s recently released budget blueprint. “There’s no other way around it. If we maintain the proposals that are in this budget over the ten-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt. People will not buy our debt, our dollar will become devalued. It is a very severe situation.” Gregg, known...

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Christina Romer, head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; Pete Souza, White House photographer.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Govs. Ed Rendell, D-Pa., and Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Austan Goolsbee, member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Susan Collins, R-Maine; Rep. Mike Pence,...

It looks like 3 times will not be a charm when it comes to getting someone - anyone - honest enough and subservient enough to run the Department of Commerce for President Obama. First, it was Bill Richardson who somehow slipped under the radar of Obama's super sharp vetters, having problems with cronies back in New Mexico. Then it was Judd Gregg who withdrew his name after Obama blindsided him by politicizing the census. Now it's Gary Locke - former Governor of Washington and now lobbyist for a firm that does a lot of business in China - who may...

New Hampshire Senator (again) Judd Gregg has been called many things in the past few weeks. With Obama's courting, like a quarterback trying to get his hands in a cheerleader's blouse before never talking to her again, Gregg was placed in a national spotlight he would never attained by being mere Senator of one of our 57 States. But now that he slapped away the quarterback's hand and fled the backseat, what now for poor Judd? It seems there are only three ways to view him: Devious Manipulator, Moral Statesman, or complete Dumbass. Larry Kudlow, in National Review, takes the...

The once-a-decade census is more than a national nose count. It's used to divvy tax dollars for roads and hospitals, spot population trends for schools, business and social programs, and - did we forget? - play high-stakes politics. The task comes loaded with importance, and that's why the Obama team is making a mistake by requiring that the next census director report to the White House instead of the Commerce Department bureaucracy. The decennial count is about information gathering, not partisan score settling. The political gamesmanship has just produced its first casualty or trophy kill, depending on your vantage point....

Unfortunately for the Obama administration, Judd Gregg’s withdrawal as commerce secretary has highlighted the effort by the White House to wrest control of the census (and with it, the groundwork for the 2010 Congressional reapportionment). Gregg took a second or third tier issue and vaulted it to the front pages. Since word had broken that the White House intended to take oversight of the census out of the Commerce Department and give it to the hyper-partisan political operator Rahm Emanuel, the Republicans had worked feverishly to raise public awareness. The White House power grab to apply "oversight" of the national...

REVIEW & OUTLOOKFEBRUARY 13, 2009 Team of (Former) Rivals Judd Gregg's "change of heart." Judd Gregg's withdrawal of his nomination to be Commerce Secretary indicates that President Obama's life with the left-wing of his party may become a sea of troubles. Senator Gregg said late yesterday the controversy that erupted this week over the independence of the Census Bureau was "only a slight" reason for his withdrawal. Still, the Democratic left had put in motion the events that led to this embarrassment, publicly suggesting that the Republican couldn't be trusted to conduct an honest 2010 census count. The Census Bureau,...

While marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth last night in Springfield Ill., President Barack Obama made light of Sen. Judd Gregg's decision yesterday to withdraw his nomination as commerce secretary. "In 1854, Lincoln was simply a Springfield lawyer who'd served just a single term in Congress," Mr. Obama told the approximately 900 guests at the 102nd Abraham Lincoln Association Banquet. "Possibly in his law office, his feet on a cluttered desk, his sons playing around him, his clothes a bit too small to fit his uncommon frame, maybe wondering if somebody might call him up and ask him...

The bombshell news that Senator Judd Gregg, citing policy differences over the stimulus bill and Census, is pulling out as Commerce Secretary is a major blow to President Barack Obama. Here's a quick take on why: To have a fiscally conservatives Republican in the Cabinet alongside fellow Republicans ... gave Obama something tangible to back up his claims of a bright bipartisanship dawn heralded by his administration. That's gone now. ... Obama's now lost two Commerce Secretaries ... as Oscar Wilde would have blogged: "To lose one Commerce Secretary, Mr Obama, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both...

Robert Gibbs, the White House press spokesman, said Gregg "was very clear throughout the interviewing process that despite past disagreements about policies, he would support, embrace, and move forward with the president's agenda". "Once it became clear after his nomination that Senator Gregg was not going to be supporting some of President Obama's key economic priorities, it became necessary for Senator Gregg and the Obama administration to part ways."