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Stocking the Cabinet: Who Might
Serve in a Romney Administration?
National Journal, by Jim O'Sullivan
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Posted By:StormCnter, 10/20/2012 4:36:21 AM
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| The day after his election as governor of Massachusetts in 2002, Mitt Romney welcomed reporters to his transition headquarters in the People’s Republic of Cambridge, informed his new constituents that managing the state’s pressing budget crisis would be his top priority, and began fleshing out the top posts within his pending administration. A decade later, a President Romney would again face immediate fiscal problems. But a vastly different set of circumstances would shape the personnel decisions that Romney could make during his transition to the Oval Office. For one, Romney, despite a 1994 U.S. Senate challenge to Democrat Edward Kennedy,
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Perry for Energy!
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
TulsaTowner, 10/20/2012 4:42:19 AM (No. 8947224)
I would rather eliminate the Dept of Energy.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Merlin251, 10/20/2012 4:53:54 AM (No. 8947227)
Condie Rice for U.N. Ambassador
John Bolton for Secretary of State
Rudy Giuliani for Attorney General
Representative Darryl Issa for DNI
Retired General David H. Petraeus for DCI
Retired General Stanley McChrystal for Secretary of Defense
Governor Sara Palin for Secretary of the Interior
Robert Portman for Transportation Secretary
Governor Rick Perry for Energy Secretary
Dr. Roy Spenser for EPA Director
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
country boy, 10/20/2012 5:25:22 AM (No. 8947237)
Gotta get rid of Bernanke. Quantitive Easing is like taking drugs.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JAN, 10/20/2012 6:53:59 AM (No. 8947300)
Like to see Steve Forbes as Treas Sec
Portman for Sec of State
Bolton as UN ambassador.
Giuliani as Attorney General
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mickeymat, 10/20/2012 7:00:02 AM (No. 8947316)
Grown ups.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
pickle1, 10/20/2012 7:23:41 AM (No. 8947373)
I hope this President will be smart enough to select strong people who really care about America its people and interest instead of their own interest.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
bpl40, 10/20/2012 7:55:38 AM (No. 8947416)
Bobby Jindal at HHS to clean up the 0bamcare mess.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 10/20/2012 8:43:07 AM (No. 8947517)
Eliminate EPA and transfer funding to the new Directorate of Rock & Roll headed by Ted Nuggent.
First things first.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
AppleAnnie, 10/20/2012 8:51:43 AM (No. 8947540)
I'd like to see Romney bring some big name, no nonsense private sector people into his Cabinet even if it's only for the first year to clean out the stables. They could be extremely effective and then return to private life. Tackle the Departments like Bain Capital! Haha, watch dem heads explode.
Example: put Giuliani at Justice for the first year and then Christie when his term is up.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
coldoc, 10/20/2012 8:54:16 AM (No. 8947549)
If departments like energy and education aren't outright eliminated, there needs to be a serious ideological purging of the federal government. Communists need not apply. One of GB's failings was to not serve pink slips on his entrenched enemies in government. EPA needs to be defanged from the get-go or they will stymie every energy decision President Romney tries to make.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 10/20/2012 9:00:13 AM (No. 8947562)
Personnel is policy - what about the czars?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
sgtfox of the jarhead clan, 10/20/2012 9:04:12 AM (No. 8947579)
Nobody who has ever REACHED ACROSS THE ISLE to the enemy or plays golf with democrats should be considered. Our culture war continues. Fight it like one. That might mean we will see a whole lot of new unfamiliar names. Sometimes recycling is a bad idea.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
floridagator, 10/20/2012 9:12:27 AM (No. 8947595)
Kimberly Guilfoyle for White House Spokes-goddess.
(not a Cabinet position, just wanted to squeeze-in that little dream)
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
capt scurvey, 10/20/2012 10:12:39 AM (No. 8947789)
I think I'd give Homeland Security to Rudy Guiliani and let Ann Coulter clean things up at the DOJ. John Bolton most certainly as SecState...
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
4freedom, 10/20/2012 10:16:54 AM (No. 8947803)
Before any appointments he should fire ALL of the CZARS!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
plumnellie, 10/20/2012 10:33:57 AM (No. 8947836)
Actually, I would enjoy Ann Coulter as press spokesperson. Can not imagine any of the biased media acting out with her at the podium. Plus she can articulate Romney's news and policies with humor and bite. Agree about Rudy at Justice and Bolton at State. Would enjoy Condi at the U.N. but would really like us to kick the U.N. to Africa where it needs to be. And, let us have our prime real estate back, plus save on all the perks and parking the officials get.
Would enjoy Palin as Ambassador too. But, do not want any current Rep or Sen to be tapped unless his seat would be taken by a Repub. I also like Forbes at Treasury. He has been a steady, conservative, intelligent voice for fiscal restraint for decades.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/20/2012 11:56:41 AM (No. 8948037)
It better not be any RINO's or Lefties! We need to expunge 110% of them from any public life! Back to the salt mines, you might strike gold!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
harper, 10/20/2012 12:38:21 PM (No. 8948137)
Decimation is the removal of one in ten.
I wonder if selective decimation of the fed gov bureaucracy would be enough to remove all of the communists? Probably not, but a worthy first year of mandate goal nevertheless.
Bolton for State.
Nugent for Sec. Defense
Guiliani to the FBI
LaPierre as UN Ambassador
Sarah for energy Czar...
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
afherkdriver, 10/20/2012 4:28:09 PM (No. 8948505)
If he does't defang the EPA and other agencies that rule by fiat, his election will be meaningless and all this will be for naught. The US is at the abyss.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 10/20/2012 4:31:50 PM (No. 8948510)
Romney probably has binders full of qualified names!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
tisHimself, 10/20/2012 4:39:29 PM (No. 8948525)
Jindal at HHS would be inspired.
Herman Cain has significant experience with the Federal Reserve.
Look away from the Bush retreads and east coast ivy league heavy mindset. Reagan did it and life was good.
An insider and policy wonk should be assigned a non cabinet position of swing a brickbat at every executive order, czar action and administrative regulation implemented since January 2009. That would be Gingrich. Somebody with no political future but whose love and understanding of this country is without question.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
afherkdriver, 10/20/2012 6:54:29 PM (No. 8948807)
#11 has a great idea. Gingrich would do a wonderful job.
Dennis Miller would make a great press secretary.
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