But she acknowledged that she now had to run the gauntlet of Euro-MPs, who have the power to grill incoming members of the European Commission - and the Lisbon Treaty says the High Representative sits as a Commission Vice-President.
Rich suggested that Gregory, who often guest hosts the "Today" show when Matt Lauer is away, get reassigned to the NBC morning show broadcast, where he can "speak truth to power by grilling Paula Deen" and dancing with Korean pop sensation, Psy.
But my lack of grill power may be all about my girl power.
TOWER OF POWER, B. B. King Blues Club and Grill, 243 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, (212) 997-4144.
The restaurant remains one of the city's top power eateries, its Grill Room filled daily at lunchtime with media moguls and banking tycoons.
(That's large enough for 14 quarter-pound hamburgers!) All that grilling power fits inside a sleek package that's hardly bigger than the microwave in your breakroom at work.
I still want that retro Weber grill powered by propane but simply can't afford it, I still want that high status job that I once had where I came and went as I pleased and people prefaced my name with Doctor, and I still want to know that I'll have an income and healthcare when I'm old and my daughter's education will be paid for.
And with meet-the-director parties for academy members frowned upon, one studio told an Oscar hopeful to show up at lunchtime twice a week at the Grill, a power dining spot, to schmooze with Oscar voters.
Another long-time popular power scene is The Grill in Beverly Hills.
Yes, today's monster garages are receptacles for a whole slew of suburban status symbols: high-design gardening equipment, name-brand power tools, restaurant-quality grills and precision-engineered leisure goods.
