Kizhaber on HHS: "Sorry, Not Interested"

[the_chinuk]

Via OPB:

Former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber says he’s flattered by being mentioned as a possible cabinet secretary in the Obama Administration. But he says he’s not interested in heading the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

And Kitzhaber says he’s not being vetted for the job. Kitzhaber’s name came up after former Senator Tom Daschle withdrew his nomination to HHS.

Well, it's gotta be pretty flattering if you're enough of a positive figure and percieved as an honest broker that you're names' going to come up in the national press for an opening even if you aren't being considered for it.

[Reader Rabbit]

1. Well, crap.

I was really looking forward to seeing Kitzhaber taking on some of those Republican knuckleheads in the Senate.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Yes, he's a Democrat with spine

I remember calling the governor's hotline and thanking him for vetoing FIFTY of the Republicanites' lame-brain bills.