The usually mild-mannered Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) went off on Obama’s Budget Director Peter Orszag yesterday during a senate committee hearing.
This was an amazing segment:
Judd Gregg was outraged:
Gregg erupted as Orszag spoke of the TARP use to solve lingering problems with access to credit for small businesses. “No! No! No!” he yelled out. “You can’t make that type of statement with any legitimacy. You cannot make that statement.” Gregg then held up a guideline for the TARP, which he helped write in 2008 to keep the country from further economic collapse.
“This is the law,” he said. “Let me tell you what the law says. Let me read to you again because you don’t appear to understand the law. The law is very clear. The monies recouped from the TARP shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury for the reduction of the public debt. It’s not for a piggy bank because you’re concerned about lending to small businesses and you want to get a political event when you go out and make a speech in Nashua, N.H.”
Gregg accused Orszag and Obama of passing on debt to generations of Americans and having an abashed sidestepping of the TARP law. “And,” he said, “you ought to at least have the integrity to be forthright about it.”
Let Freedom Ring has more on Judd’s performance and this administration’s nasty habit of running roughshod on the laws of this country.
February 3rd, 2010 | 7:49 pm | #1
My GOD! A RINO getting tough with a liberal. About bloody time!
February 3rd, 2010 | 7:50 pm | #2
What a weasel that guy is
February 3rd, 2010 | 7:51 pm | #3
Forthright??……Obama.????
February 3rd, 2010 | 7:58 pm | #4
Gregg just made Barry’s hit list. No one absolutely no one can tell Barry the truth. Even thru a surrogate,
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:00 pm | #5
OMG I have never heard Orzag speak before–what a total nimrod highpitched geekazoid freak he is!!
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:03 pm | #6
And this is what we the people expect, protection from those who would do us harm. Good job to Gregg, but he/they should be doing this more often.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:16 pm | #7
Judd Gregg was already on Obama’s pay-no-mind list after withdrawing his name from consideration for the Secretary of Commerce post when he realized what Obama had planned. Gregg has been consistent in his criticism of the spending spree. Too bad it’s him retiring in NH and not Olympia Snowe in Maine.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:17 pm | #8
Wow…Gregg just smashed that little, little weasel…Orszag. He is the biggest douche in the world. Simply put, he needs a slap..that voice, he was surely the doofus whimp that got the snot beat out of him in 5th grade and got picked last in dodgeball class…
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:18 pm | #9
Remember when people who broke the law actually went to JAIL? Those were the days.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:23 pm | #10
The whole thing get boiled down to Orzag basically saying “I will obey the law because congress will pass a law allowing TARP funds to be used for our political gain Judd and you can’t do anything about it.”
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:24 pm | #11
So Pres. Obama’s budget fundamentally alters TARP to the point where basically it’s a new program that will be wasted on something different from the original projects it was wasted on.
But when TARP gets *really* unpopular (if it’s even possible for it to get any less popular), Obama will say that TARP was Bush’s creation. Even though the worst aspects of TARP were implemented by Obama/Geitner/Summers/Romer/ZimbabweBen/Orzag.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:29 pm | #12
My jaw dropped when I heard Gregg start to hammer that little weasel. And then when Orszag tried to argue the point, Gregg really slammed him until Orszag looked like a little peanut melting in his chair.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:31 pm | #13
THAT’S what Orszag looks like? I rarely look at photos or videos of politicians, so until this I’d never seen Orszag. He doesn’t look old enough to be chasing girls, much less running financial policy for the biggest economy in the world.
February 3rd, 2010 | 8:43 pm | #14
Thank goodness Gregg decided not to align himself with this administration. They are weasels.
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:00 pm | #15
Hope Gregg knows he’ll be a hero if he keeps this up —
“Clearly we’re not going to agree and you’re not going to follow the law.”
Liars, cheats, thieves. Look them in the eye and tell ‘em every time.
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:16 pm | #16
So if I heard the clip correctly, they intend to do what they want with the money and have Congress provide cover by amending the current TARP law to accommodate their plan after they tell Congress how they want the law written?
Hubris!
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:24 pm | #17
Here is an alternative to TARP:
http://the-raw-deal.com/2010/02/03/tarp-alternative-by-lt-daniel-kaffee-guest-author/
Nathan R. Jessup
http://www.the-raw-deal.com
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:29 pm | #18
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February 3rd, 2010 | 9:16 pm | #16
Exactly. They will do as they please because they still have the votes and will pass a law to provide cover for themselves as they fritter away more of our money without accomplishing anything. November can’t come soon enough!!!
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:42 pm | #19
Wonder if they planned on amending the TARP fund payback plan scheme ‘law’ before they seated Scott Brown? Wouldn’t put it past them.
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:45 pm | #20
pm wrote: “Hope Gregg knows he’ll be a hero if he keeps this up — ”
You know, the strangest thought just struck me. Gregg is not running for re-election this fall. And after almost three terms of being a fairly quiet, stay-in-the-background kind of senator, suddenly he’s making waves. LOTS of waves. BIG waves.
meanwhile, the biggest lament among conservatives right now is that we have no one to lead us and no clear front-runner for the next presidential election.
Is Gregg possibly setting himself up for a presidential run in 2012?
February 3rd, 2010 | 9:56 pm | #21
Who is the moron at the very end who says, “that’s how laws are made, Congress passes them?” Notice how Orzag tries to hide behind that profundity like that was his point all along.
These people are beyond arrogant-there is no word strong enough to describe the habitual bald-faced served up with a straight, and might I say, “weasily” face
February 3rd, 2010 | 10:03 pm | #22
I think Gregg is legitimately frightened for the future of this country. He is not running for reelection so he doesn’t have to worry about making waves with the elite New England PC crowd for being mean.
I think the guy is just plain scared and angry.
February 3rd, 2010 | 10:04 pm | #23
Orzag is ff***g moron. I hope he goes straight to jail.
February 3rd, 2010 | 10:13 pm | #24
More Republicans need to speak up and not allow such blatant misrepresentations. Use of the word “integrity” makes the point.
And at the end Bernie Sanders was rather nonchalant and snarky about cirumventing the agreement that was made with the PUBLIC when TARP was passed. A public promise was made, then according to him can simply be amended to suit Congress’ current whim.
February 3rd, 2010 | 10:18 pm | #25
Subsequently, Sanders attacked Gregg in a setting that Gregg could not respond. Sanders went on about actions taken by Republicans that added to the deficit, saying nothing about how the current deficits were multiples of what he had just condemned.
Sanders’ diatribe lacked “integrity”.
February 3rd, 2010 | 11:19 pm | #26
Judd Gregg is a fiscal conservative. I like what he says and I like the way he took to Orzag. Yes, I wonder if he will position himself for a run in 2012 since he is retiring from the Senate.
February 3rd, 2010 | 11:38 pm | #27
Orzag’s out-of-wedlock baby is sad evidence of the type of moral-equivalency dealt daily in this administration. He certainly is a weasel for our times.
February 3rd, 2010 | 11:58 pm | #28
Wolfwalker, I think we could do a lot worse…Greg would be an excellent candidate. Central casting couldn’t put together anyone better…I think after the DalaiBama, the country will be looking for an adult to grab the rudder and steer the ship away from the killer reef. Romney could be that guy but he looks a little too perfect, his teeth are just too white and his smile too robotic. Greg looks like he’s been outdoors a few times. He has a few lines in his face. He looks like he’s been really happy and really sad in his life. Not so with Romney, and that kind of thing translates into votes. Being a fprmer businessman from New Hampshire can’t hurt and he has a record of wanting environmental protections, but wanting to DRILL FOR OIL! He won a ton of money on the Powerball, which means, like a lot of regular guys, he’ll buy a lotto ticket when he’s felling lucky.
My favorite might be Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, but I don’t think the country will be in the mood for another whizkid. Judd Greg just might be the right guy at the right time.
February 4th, 2010 | 2:35 am | #29
This is a step in the right direction. But, personally, I won’t be happy until Gregg snatches Orszag’s toupée, sets it on fire, and dry humps it Jimi Hendrix style. Take that, you little sissy!!!
February 4th, 2010 | 5:37 am | #30
Orszag *is* a toxic asset in need of relief.
February 4th, 2010 | 5:52 am | #31
There is a silver lining in this. Apparently Orszag got a clue and actually got a hairpiece that fits instead of that one that looks like Punxsutawney Phil is sitting on his head. Guess Washington has its privileges.
http://bentcorner.com/2008/11/barack-obama-picks-a-man-with-a-bad-toupee-to-be-in-his-administration/
February 4th, 2010 | 6:45 am | #32
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February 4th, 2010 | 7:18 am | #33
Ok, OK, That’s enough dissent for today. It’s getting so bad, even RINO republicans can see throurgh our BS
I’ll have to go on the attack again tomorrow and most of all remind them, It’s not about me!
(Probable reaction of BO to the dust up)
February 4th, 2010 | 9:25 am | #34
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February 4th, 2010 | 10:17 am | #35
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February 4th, 2010 | 12:32 pm | #36
With reference to #33, BO did go on the attack again at the prayer breakfast! He is certainly revealing himself to be the Classless Marxist…
Oh, did I forget to mention, it’s not about him!
February 4th, 2010 | 4:00 pm | #37
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