There's great cause for conservative joy and celebration today. Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire took a principled stand and declined to join Wonderboy's cabinet.
Gregg is a very classy, old-style, respectable man and Senator. He was much too gracious to speak the truth about what happened. But it's easy to read between the lines.
Between voting against the stimulus package, being repulsed by its excess and inappropriateness, and seeing his prospective department's main responsibility, the census, gutted and moved to Rahm Emanuel's office as a political activity, Gregg realized he was being played for a token conservative sucker.
So, rather than the First Rookie playing with Mitch McConnell's head, as a Wall Street Journal editorialist wrote a few weeks ago, it's exactly the reverse. One of the smartest, most conservative Republicans in the Senate reversed course, handed Wonderboy a huge defeat, and heads back to bolster a sane, principled GOP minority.
What Gregg didn't say, but is now obvious, is Wonderboy's bait wasn't enough, and his pretense at building a bipartisan cabinet is, and always was, a sham.
It's another well-deserved blunder and black eye for the First Rookie.
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