One Can Only Hope (2)

I am no fan of Bill Richardson’s. I thought his pandering to illegals during the Democratic Presidential candidate debates was despicable. I didn’t appreciate his ethnocentric campaign, and I sure as hell didn’t appreciate his disloyalty to Hillary Clinton.
So, I hope Robert Byrd was right back in 2000 when he said that Richardson “would never again receive Senate support for any office he sought”.
At that time, Richardson, who’d left his post as U.N. ambassador to serve as energy secretary, raised hackles by delaying testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding security lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratories.
As far as I’m concerned, Bill Richardson has a chip on his shoulder the size of a Redwood and a sense of entitlement the size of Rhode Island. I understand why Obama feels under obligation to him, but I sincerely hope the President-elect doesn’t waste political capital on his confirmation.