The sudden withdrawal of Rethug Sen. Judd "Judd-head" Gregg from the Commerce Secretary post was strange in its timing. One wonders why Judd-head didn't size up his philosophical differences with the Obama Administration before offering himself for the position (and he came to the Administration looking for the job, not the other way around).
It's likely that he was under pressure from his fellow Rethugs, who are engaged in a Taliban-style insurgency four weeks into the Obama Administration: unanimous "no" votes on the stimulus, even after the package contained tax cuts favored by the Rethugs, for example. The D.C. media "Villagers" are looking the other way, since they remain wired for Rethuglican rule in Washington, DC. For the majority of the Villagers, bipartisanship is a one-way street, running the Rethuglican's direction, and Judd-head's sudden embarrassing withdrawal will cause him little or no grief. They want to make it into an Obama misstep.
UPDATE: No sooner does Judd-head return to his tribe than the Rethugs are high-fiving, claiming an "Obama insider" has left and that it's a repudiation of Obama's outreach to them. What a surprise.
