A job for Mitt
Another friend of mine told me he regrets Romney losing because he was looking forward to (I’m paraphrasing) ”Bainiacs running around the Department of Labor.” … Which leads to a thought: Why doesn’t Obama put Romney to work making the federal government more efficient? The Romney Commission! Let Mitt’s Bainiacs scour the halls of government–’You don’t really need that $80,000-a-year deputy speechwriter, do you?’–and then make proposals for where to cut, where to reorganize, how to get rid of the fat that’s marbled in.
Romney’s good at this sort of thing. There’s precedent for such a commission. It would make Obama look magnanimous and (what voters are said to want) bipartisan. It would be bipartisan. And if it actually did result in efficiencies would help validate the government that remains. (Meanwhile, it would defuse some of the well-justified reflexive antigovernment feeling on the center and right.) Even E.J. Dionne would approve. …
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No… stay away.
ninjapirate on November 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM
No way Romney would take part in such a scam. Because thats exactly what it would be.
Zaggs on November 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM
No need, Obama can handle it. Just watch and learn…
DarkCurrent on November 9, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Isn’t that why the Simpson-Bowles Commission was formed?
herm2416 on November 9, 2012 at 10:59 AM
This is NOT happening. There’s no way Obama would offer, considering that it would basically mean admitting that Romney knows private enterprise better than he does.
And there’s no way Romney accepts. Why be part of the admin you just spent so much time and money trying to defeat, and operate under a guy who doesn’t know what he’s doing only to have that same guy reap the rewards?
changer1701 on November 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Kaus is presumably trolling.
But seriously, Obama’s government is not inefficient because he just can’t figure out places to cut. Obama himself is not polarizing and partisan for lack of opportunities to be otherwise.
HitNRun on November 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Hell no. Romney would be insane to get anywhere near this administration. First of all, Obama’s government is run by czars, not the cabinet secretaries. Romney would just be window dressing. Secondly, when this thing comes crashing down, no Republican(even if their political career is pretty much over) wants to be within the vicinity of the wreckage.
Doughboy on November 9, 2012 at 11:01 AM
How could anyone suggest that the team behind cash for clunkers is lacking in brain power?
jhffmn on November 9, 2012 at 11:02 AM
Kaus sure is naive.
forest on November 9, 2012 at 11:03 AM
I am sure Obama will act on Mitt’s advice as he did with his Simpson-Bowles commission.
WashJeff on November 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Bark has a cabinet simply for appearances, we already know that his superior intellect is the real driver behind everything.
Bishop on November 9, 2012 at 11:04 AM
FFS , he would be the scape goat.
the_nile on November 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM
I’ve got a job for Rombama, hey Mitt why don’t you start by apologizing to those that actually support liberty and freedom. If you hadn’t projected yourself as just another big government stooge maybe you could have earned a few more votes.
MoreLiberty on November 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Actually, this sort of thing is what made Bill Clinton appear successful. He let the GOP congress do its thing, and cliamed the credit.
Droopy on November 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Actually, Reince Preibus should hire Mitt to fix the GOP infrastructure. The GOTV failure was not directly Mitt’s but the people he hired. Let Mitt be directly in charge of rebuilding the Party, and I guarantee success.
SAZMD on November 9, 2012 at 11:05 AM
Oh please. Mitt Romney is way too smart to aide an abet America’s greatest enemy in his quest to destroy OUR country.
Pork-Chop on November 9, 2012 at 11:08 AM
I hope Mitt does something completely different. He could lead y example. The government can go to he11 as far as I am concerned, we are going to have to work around what is coming down the pike and go galt as much as possible in the next four years.
Kristamatic on November 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM
John Huntsman II: Electric Boogaloo
portlandon on November 9, 2012 at 11:11 AM
i never wann see romneys face again.
take that bluegill.
renalin on November 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM
Zero already has a scalpel. For realz. He said so. He doesn’t need another one.
In any case, would Zero actually listen to any of Romney’s proposals? History sez no.
stvnscott on November 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM
No thanks..libtards you wanted this you own it. It’s all yours.
HumpBot Salvation on November 9, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I can see it now – a la McCain. In the first meeting, “Hey Mitt, I won”.
salem on November 9, 2012 at 11:17 AM
Tuesdays results say otherwise. Stop drinking the Mitt-Aid before you hurt yourself.
CTSherman on November 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM
I sure hope Mitt has nothing to do with this suggestion? It just be me, but when someone talks about me the way bho/team did Mitt, I DO NOT want to be around them or have any use for them! bho got re-elected and now he owns the whole nine yards!
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letget on November 9, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Nothing Romney says would be listened let alone implemented by Obama. It’s not so much that Obama hates everything Romney represents, thought that does figure into it. It’s that Obama thinks tht he has no actual need for Romneys skills… or anyone elses.
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters, I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
- Barack Hussein Obama
Alberta_Patriot on November 9, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Please . . . do you think that President Obama, the man who by sheer force of personality and intellect brought peace to the Middle East, slowed the rise of the oceans and brought unemployment down to 5.6& in his first term needs some insufferable fool whose only accomplishment was creating billions of dollars in wealth and jobs? Obimbo’s got this all under control.
SoRight on November 9, 2012 at 11:20 AM
Um, I think Romney wanted to be POTUS. Who cares anyways — we’re getting us some AMNESTY!
I’m told Hannity (idiot) and others (evil idiots) have “evolved” on the issue since, well, bringing in more Third World people programmed to hate America, Americans, and sign up for free stuff is the path toward prosperity and continual electoral success.
Yes, we’re going to make California just that much more insolvent and awful for you, Mickey.
Punchenko on November 9, 2012 at 11:24 AM
1. It makes too much sense for the taxpayers. The fools need to be exploited by Obama.
2. Romney should just live the good life. He earned it and the land doesn’t deserve a move of the finger by him, except maybe one.
3. Obama lied when he said that he’d review every line of expenses by the gov’t.
4. Obama owes the looters/moochers.
5. Fluke Obama and his into oblivion. They can all go to Hell, poor, hungry, cold and in the dark. Let them wallow in their Utopian pipedream and see where the cow provides mild from, and for how long.
Schadenfreude on November 9, 2012 at 11:29 AM
mild = milk
Schadenfreude on November 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM
A nothing job with no power.
Paul-Cincy on November 9, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Must be a slow news day with the writer not knowing what to do. Even his own words seem to say that this would never happen, why bother with writing it. This is about as dumb as suggesting that Bill Clinton become the next Pope.
cat-scratch on November 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM
Try reading what I wrote. Mitt was not directly running his campaign, he was campaigning. The people he hired to do that failed him. Additionally, the timeframe of a Presidential campaign is not favorable for using a new process; remember, Obama already had the infrastructure in place and 4 years to build on it. In my scenario, Romney would have 1-2 years to get the job done, more than enough time.
SAZMD on November 9, 2012 at 11:46 AM
You know what? I’m sick of Mickey Kaus. And Kirsten Powers. And Ann Althouse. And all these bloggers and pundits that have what they have because of conservative readership – yet support Obama. Sure Althouse says she voted for Romney – but she also said she is fine with Obama because of the social issue crap. I am worn out and done with all this.
djl130 on November 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Sure, one can asses responsibility for the failure of ORCA on Mitt’s underlings, no problem. I’m sure that being the good manager he is, given the time, he could fix it.
Fixing a GOTV logistical program is one thing. His inability to unify the party enough to get him across the finish line as the winner on Tuesday is something completely different and has more to do with his personality and convictions than it does his management capabilities.
Listen, I think Mitt Romney is a good man, a very good man. Rebuilding the GOTV program, yes. Rebuilding the GOP, hell no.
CTSherman on November 9, 2012 at 12:29 PM
I do not want Gov. Romney anywhere near BO’s administration. It will only tarnish him. He is too good of a man to be connected to that criminal.
Voter from WA State on November 9, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Yup, 100% scam. Plus he’d end up with a Chicago knife in his back.
petefrt on November 9, 2012 at 12:35 PM
FUBO Get a photo op elsewhere.
rhombus on November 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM
Mitt Romney: Fail Czar
Mr. Wednesday Night on November 9, 2012 at 1:18 PM