Obama is proposing the change. But this nomination is not a good sign for Obama’s change – shame on bill’s handling of wee ho lee case and refusal to apologize.
What? What Obama is saying is like this, “I want this guy who ‘lost’ or incapable of protecting the plans for nuclear weapons to now be in charge of our trade agreements.” What a change Obama is going to make by appointing Bill Richardson ???
This guy is proved to be unable to take charge of federal agencies, see below:
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2008/11/25/richardson-free-trade-oped-cx_dh_1025hemel.html
The confirmation battle might be a bruiser. When Richardson was energy secretary, two computer hard drives containing nuclear weapons secrets disappeared from a vault at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, an Energy Department facility. At a Senate hearing on the security breach in 2000, the longest-serving Democrat in the chamber, Robert Byrd of West Virginia, vowed that Richardson would “never again receive the support of the Senate of the United States for any office to which [he] might be appointed.” But with Obama and the Senate Democrats still in the honeymoon phase, it seems unlikely that Byrd would (or could) make good on his eight-and-a-half-year-old threat.
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