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Gingrich for HHS?
Talking Points Memo — ... Yes, a palpably insane idea. But Craig Crawford at CQ is suggesting it. And in the current climate of completely whacked decision-making, perhaps it could actually happen? ...

Mittens
Political Animal — ... , replaced with an embarrassing right-wing hack. Post Script : As I'm typing this, an email arrives in my inbox, alerting me to CQ 's Craig Crawford recommending Newt Gingrich -- seriously, Newt Gingrich -- as a possible HHS Secretary. Folks, I like outside-the-box thinking as much as the next guy, but if the short list includes Romney and Gingrich, the country is in very big trouble.— ...

Gingrich for HHS? Spare Me
Suburban Guerrilla — CQ’s usually rational Chuck Crawford has been drinking the Beltway water far too long: Tom Daschle’s withdrawal leaves a fascinating and crucial vacuum to fill in Barack Obama’s emerging Cabinet. Two out-of-the-ballpark names to speculate about are (out of left field) Howard Dean, and (from way out there in right field) Newt Gingrich. Liberals would surely be pleased with Dr. Dean, but he and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel have some serious fence mending to do before that could happen. Gingrich? Now ...

CQ's Crawford Suggests Newt Gingrich For HHS
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Over at Congressional Quarterly, Craig Crawford is having himself an idea on who might be a good replacement for Tom Daschle. On the one hand, there's Howard Dean, who would have to find himself on better terms with Rahm Emanuel in a hurry for that to happen. On the other hand, theres...: ...

CQ's Crawford Suggests Newt Gingrich For HHS
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Over at Congressional Quarterly, Craig Crawford is having himself an idea on who might be a good replacement for Tom Daschle. On the one hand, there's Howard Dean, who would have to find himself on better terms with Rahm Emanuel in a hurry for that to happen. On the other hand, theres...: ...

Newt for HHS
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] That's Craig Crawford's position . I feel like we're playing a game of quick!-name-any-Republican-who-has-had-anything-to-say-about-health-care-and-could-run-for-president-in-four. I have two requests: Don't ask Bobby Jindal. He's busy. And don't ask another pro-choice Catholic. ...

Empowering Republicans
Daily Kos — ... for a GOP replacement for his seat, while at the same time arguing that it's time to get past "partisanship". Oh, then he punches Obama in the face by denying him a critical cloture vote on the Senate version of the stimulus bill. So what the heck, HHS has an opening, and the media establishment is piling on with progressively crazier ideas, because what the heck, in this post-partisan environment, the party that won doesn't get the spoils. So Romney to HHS! Or maybe Gingrich! During the Bush years, the best interests of our country took a back seat to ...

Newt?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Craig Crawford is insane.

Why Win?
Balloon Juice — Just a thought- why do the Republicans even bother trying to win elections. They get everything they want when they lose, so why bother trying to win. Nothing but Republicans or GOP talking points on my tv until I turned the DVD player on five minutes ago (Season one of News Radio is much better). I have had enough of this. Here: No cable news tonight. Think I will watch a movie or play Mass Effect. *** Update *** Exhibit A in the argument that conservatives get whatever they want even when losing: Craig Crawford appears to be seriously arguing that NEWT FUCKING ...

Why Barack Has a Blackberry
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right — ... think it’s real. BO – Yeah, that guy’s a sucker. SQ – You charmed him when you went on. That line about spotting him 14 in a one-on-one game to 15 was great. BO – The guy’s in his 70s. Are you kidding? SQ – What about your new foil, Rush Limbaugh? How many would you spot him? BO – Does it matter? SQ – Well let me ask you something that does. Who’ll be the new head of HHS? Health care is probably your biggest fight this year. BO – Gingrich. Definitely. SQ – (silence) BO – Newt’s got a lot of good ideas, and we ...

And there’s no time for the man who has sung his bar/…and there’s no time for the man called Czar
pandagon.net - we are the public option — by Auguste I hope Jesse doesn’t feel scooped if I recount a conversation we had earlier today, translated from IM-speak: Me: What a douchebag. Jesse: How about this? Me: You fucking one-upper. Seriously, I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to make a worse suggestion for what-we’re-apparently-now-calling-health-care-czar than a guy whose one qualification is that he managed to restrain his veto pen while governing as a Republican in Massachussetts, but I’ll be ...