1.0 link 164780 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/obamas-big-tent-bursting_b_164780.html Barack Obama, just a couple of weeks into his presidency, has already squeezed one person too many into his big tent, Judd Gregg, his new Commerce Secretary, a right-wing Republican who once wanted to dismantle the department he is about to run. Now if Obama's intention was in fact to get rid of the Commerce Department because it serves no purpose, the appointment would perhaps have made sense, but it appears that is not the plan, and so Gregg...

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