Republican hero

Nominee for Commerce Secretary, Senator Judd Gregg, R-NH, has withdrawn his name from consideration citing " irresolvable conflicts," namely the stimulus and the 2010 census. Of the President, he said, "We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy."

Those turncoat Senators Arlen Specter, R-PA, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, both R-ME, could take a lesson from this man of principle.