Judd Gregg Makes Brett Favre Look Decisive

This story from The Hill about New Hampshire Senator and former Senate Budget Committee Chairman Judd Gregg's latest change of mind has to make you wonder whether even he believes anything he says these days.

Gregg, who admits that he's voted for debt ceiling increases in the past "because that’s what you have to do,” now says he's voting against the one the Treasury says is needed now because "this limit increase comes in an entirely different context."

"Different context" is one of those wonderful phrases politicians use to say something without actually saying anything.  Since he doesn't define it, we're free to make an assumption about what it really means.  My strong suspicion is that the "different context" is really just another way to say that the president is now a Democrat instead of a Republican and Gregg doesn't feel the need to support debt ceiling increases that are needed during his administration the way he felt he had to when George W. Bush was in the White House.

This latest change of mind for Gregg follows his reversal on reconciliation.  Gregg absolutely (and in retrospect almost infamously) defended the use of reconciliation in previous years when he chaired the budget committee and it was the only way the GOP majority could get what it wanted through the Senate.  Now, when the Democrats are in the majority, he's been quite vocal about how using reconciliation for health care is not acceptable because he says it would be attempt to get around the Senate's rules.

And let's not forget Gregg's initial Brett Favre-like episode earlier in the year when he first pushed for and accepted the president's nomination for secretary of Commerce and then...

...mysteriously announced that he had changed his mind.

What's next for Gregg? Agreeing to quarterback the Cleveland Browns and then deciding that the New England Patriots are a better opportunity?