That was my reaction to the announcement of former Washington State Governor, Gary Locke, to head the Commerce Department.
The reason being that Locke is very pro-business and pro-free trade, especially when compared to the rest of the Obama-tons.
While I won’t say he was a great Governor, Locke did open up many doors for Washington businesses to trade their goods around the world. He essentially walked current Governoress Gregoire up to a tree ripe with fruit. She then, being too lazy to actually pick the fruit, cut the branches off one by one via her excessive overspending, giving us the $8 Billion deficit we do not enjoy today.
Two things to watch for with him:
1. His wife, Mona, is a former newsreader (if I remember right, for the local NBC affiliate) and has taught him well how to look, act & speak on camera,
2. The guy is a wet paper towel. Anything Obama asks him to do he will do. The census will belong to Rahm Emmanuel within hours of Locke taking the oath, and
3. And most importantly, he is atrocious on the topic of immigration and he will tell his tale of being the child of Chinese immigrants over and over and over until you give him what he wants.
I was at Whidbey NAS when he was mayor of Seattle. Watching him gush over billy jeff back then was repulsive to say the least.
One question does come to mind however. When do we expect to see that Yaser Arafat look alike, Mike Lowry surface. That would be interesting, would it not?
Sound Politics has some stuff from Michelle Malkin about Locke. Ex-Gov. Locke is not Mr. Clean
Not the squeaky clean guy we might remember.
Although, compared to what His Imperial Majesty is used to, I suppose he’s a Boy Scout.