Media fail to take economic crisis seriously (Gene Lyons)

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Until recently, few outside New Hampshire could have picked Sen. Judd Gregg out of a police lineup. Chances are nobody will recall who the Republican lawmaker used to be a couple of months from now. For a bright, shining moment in February, however, Gregg became the most important man in Washington-the leading man on the evening news.

Having agreed to serve as President Obama's Commerce Secretary, Gregg apparently slapped his own forehead, remembered that he was a conservative Republican and withdrew. According to Politico.com, a roomful of GOP congressmen "applauded boisterously" at the news. On cable TV, carefully-coiffed brows furrowed at this epochal development: Did Gregg's reversal mean that Obama's "bipartisanship" had failed? Was his presidency doomed?

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