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CBS' White House correspondent Chip Reid filed from Illinois but confined himself to the Judd Gregg story. The Republican Senator from New Hampshire announced that "irrevocable conflicts" prevented him from serving "100%" in Barack Obama's Cabinet so he would not serve at all. Reid consulted his Democratic sources on Capitol Hill and came up with this blind quote: "Gregg actively campaigned for the job then erratically dropped out without warning." NBC's Chuck Todd folded some Gregg reporting into his package on the stimulus. The idea of Gregg "an ideological conservative," in the Cabinet was "always sort of an odd fit," he reported. Gregg's decision to return to the Senate "blind-sided" the President.
CBS and ABC brought in their Sunday morning anchors to read the tea leaves. George Stephanopoulos of ABC's This Week reported a turf war between Commerce Department and White House over the administration of the 2010 Census; NBC's Todd reported that too, speculating that it could have been the "raw political reason" for Gregg's cold feet. On CBS, Bob Schieffer (at the tail of the Reid videostream) of Face the Nation reported that Gregg's fellow Republicans were "giving him a lot of static" for his bipartisanship. "They felt he was selling out." Losing its second Commerce Secretary nomination--Bill Richardson was the first--"does not help this administration's credibility," Schieffer asserted.
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