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Romney for health-care czar?
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... 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 ...
Romney’s Name Now Being Tossed Around As Daschle’s Replacement
Say Anything —
... Some are apparently serious about it, and why not? Romney instituted socialized medicine in Massachusetts. ...
Alternatively, He Could Tie A Kitten to His Head and Demand to Be Called "Susan the Great"
Whiskey Fire —
... Mitt Romney for Health and Human Services chief! Marc Ambinder says that Obama could do worse. No, he fucking couldn't. In the first place, Romney's an idiot. In the next place, he has his head up his ass. Additionally, he's either a reactionary slime about women's rights to their own bodies, or else he's lying about same , which isn't much better. Moreover, Hugh Hewitt likes him, and Hugh Hewitt is an ass. FInally, what the fuck? Mitt fucking Romney? A lot of shit seems to bob up out of the Atlantic lately. Must have been some sort of spill... ...
Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake —
... My bad!
What happened to Daschle?
A possible replacement.
Stupidest. Suggestion.Ever.
Cool, the stimulus is getting larger.
But don't they know this will hurt NYC's economy?
Don't like the sound of this.
MN recount update.
OMG EVERYONE HATES OBAMA OMG!
Change you can believe in.
Ericka Andersen: Romney as Daschle's Replacement? Naaa
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... -- was criticized by conservatives during the 2008 election, but emulates what Obama wants to implement nationally. If Obama were to entertain this unlikely scenario (a Republican in charge of healthcare?!), Marc Ambinder notes he would definitely need an active pro-choicer to lead in another role in order to appease the base. Romney is a pro-life Mormon whose nomination would like enrage liberals either way, though. Fifty-six percent of people in ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — IS MARC AMBINDER SMOKING CRACK? Ambinder's proposing Mitt Romney as Obama's health care czar: President Obama could do worse. Romney has a bad reputation among Congressional Democrats, so I can't imagine they'd cotton to this..... A bad reputation among Democrats? Gosh, why would that be? Let's look at the speech he gave last week to House Republicans at their retreat: ... The question is: whose leadership and ideas will turn things around. ... The new President and the Congressional majority are having a difficult ...
Morning Skim: Post-Daschle; Stimulus and Despair; Saving Media
Opinionator —
American Prospect: Ezra Klein shortlists possible Daschle replacements . At the top: John Podesta, Ed Rendell, Kathleen Sebelius, John Kitzhaber. The Swamp : Karen Tumulty suggests another possibility: Mitt Romney. Marc Ambinder agrees. More possibilities discussed at The Treatment . Post Partisan : Michael Kinsley on Daschle’s demise : [T]he main reason that Geithner survived while Daschle didn’t is that Daschle came second. Second is exactly the wrong place to be. The malefactor who comes first gets away with it because the issue is new and ...
Marc Ambinder: "Czar Romney?"
Daily Kos —
This has got to be crazy talk: President Obama could do worse. Romney has a bad reputation among Congressional Democrats, so I can't imagine they'd cotton to this. In fact, it's highly unlikely. But what Romney, in a bipartisan fashion, was able to do in Massachusetts -- even with caveats -- is pretty much the same as what Obama wants to do on a national level. Karen Tumulty notes that Romney is the only American who can claim the provision of universal health care as a resume line. Didn't help him in the GOP too much, but that's another discussion. If ...
Mittens
Political Animal —
... a proven problem-solver on the health care issue, who has shown that he is willing to invest whatever political capital it takes to get the job done. Someone who has shown that, on this issue, he can work pragmatically across party lines. Someone who has partnered with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the chairman of the Senate health committee, on a plan. In fact, he's the only person in America who has ever put together and passed a universal health care program. That man: Mitt Romney. Marc Ambinder is skeptical about the likelihood, but seems to approve of the idea. ...
And there’s no time for the man who has sung his bar/…and there’s no time for the man called Czar
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Auguste
I hope Jesse doesn’t feel scooped if I recount a conversation we had earlier today, translated from IM-speak:
Me: What a douchebag.
Jesse: How about this?
Me: You fucking one-upper.
Seriously, I wouldn’t have thought it would be possible to make a worse suggestion for what-we’re-apparently-now-calling-health-care-czar than a guy whose one qualification is that he managed to restrain his veto pen while governing as a Republican in Massachussetts, but I’ll be ...
