Romney for health-care czar?
posted at 9:35 pm on February 3, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Worth flagging for its sheer audacity.
If Obama wanted to bring Romney into the cabinet, he’d have to balance him by appointing a pro-choicer to a top HHS post because there are so many controversial, sexuality-related programs in that department that apportion money. The thinking here is that Romney would be the White House health care czar and that a Democrat — Gov. Kitzhaber of Oregon, maybe — would move over to Health and Human Services.
What does Romney get out of it? Assuming that Obama’s ship is merely listing now and that the economy has recovered perceptablly, 2012 is not going to be an attractive cycle year for a Republican to run for president. If managerial chops are what’s needed, then Romney’s resume cuts in… something that, again, the GOP didn’t seem to much appreciate in 2008. Like Hillary Clinton, Romney might be willing to trade his political ambition for the chance to do something awesome for the country.
The One’s going to hand the left’s most cherished domestic policy ambition to a guy loathed by progressives for his opportunistic social conservatism? And Mitt’s going to accept, knowing that the right will turn on him viciously for being coopted into the cause of socialized medicine? Is it at all relevant that Romney’s chief qualification for the position has turned into a boondoggle despised by conservatives for its spiraling costs? What am I missing here?
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peacenprosperity – I didn’t say Romney was a bad guy. I just never got the impression he was a conservative in all senses of the term. His private career might have been stellar, but his public record suggests perhaps otherwise.
saint on February 4, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Why the hell not? He’s a RINO. Always has been. His conservative bit never did work for me. He’s always been pro-abortion. This “conversion” of his to appease the right never worked for me. He’s a big government guy. He thinks government has the answers. He likes government! He’s a liberal! He is NOT a conservative! The RNC is going to try to push him down your throats in 4 years! Remember that! He came in second to McNumbnuts! He’s next in line! It always works that way in the Republican Party! Always! He is McCain lite!
sabbott on February 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM
Gee, the sheer hatred of Mitt is astonishing here, as usual. At least we’ve cut down on the “magic underwear” stuff. But Saint, Romney IS a good LDS person. You are smearing him unfairly, and thus have been caught in a lie when you said he wasn’t a good man, since by saying he isn’t a Mormon except by name, you are mistaken.
I highly doubt Romney would do this job, though, and I highly doubt Obama would ask. Putting Romney in charge would be doing something competent, and Obama doesn’t want that! None of his picks so far show any signs of competence, and why would Obama change now?
Vanceone on February 4, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I realize this is a side issue, but Hillary took State purely for reasons of ambition. In the Senate she was still “junior Senator from NY” but at State she has some autonomy… even if it means that the policies she is likely to undertake stem from Obama’s warped/naive view of the Middle East instead of from her own, slightly more realistic view of things.
If Hillary — or any major Democrat — were truly interested in doing something awesome for the country, she would have stayed in the Senate and built a coalition of people willing to stand up to Reid, Frank, and the Obamacrats so that this country wasn’t subjected to two years (minimum) of unchecked liberal policies. Instead, she took the path of least resistance (and most prestige).
Y-not on February 4, 2009 at 11:52 AM
I don’t agree with you Allah that Hillary is so self-sacrificing. We haven’t seen the last of her yet.
But Romney- I hope he does care that much. He seems to.
And his managerial skills were not fully appreciated by the GOP.
Bcs the GOP is just another snot-nosed hi-society club.
If you aren’t one of them, they snub you.
Like they did Romney.
I wonder if Obama has the ba!!s?
Badger40 on February 4, 2009 at 2:38 PM
How could Ambinder write this with a straight face?!
Domino on February 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM
I don’t know how people can criticize Romney care while overlooking that the state was already on a path to universal health care. Romney care was taking a step back from that. Even the articles linked there point out that the legislature put in additional handouts Romney didnt want and they OVERRODE HIS VETOES. duh, what about this is to hard to understand for those that want to trash him – including Allahpundit
Resolute on February 4, 2009 at 6:04 PM
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