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In the months before the 2012 election, a group of high-powered consultants and political operatives prepared a secret report for candidate Mitt Romney, explaining how he should take over and restructure the federal government should he win the presidency.
The White House staff is similar to a holding company read one PowerPoint slide, which would have been presented to President-elect Romney as part of an expansive briefing on the morning after Election Day. It went on to list three main divisions of the metaphorical firm: Care & Feeding Offices, like speechwriting, Policy Offices, like the National Security Council, and Packaging & Selling Offices, like the office of the press secretary. This was the view of the Presidency Romney would have brought with him to Washington, a glimpse of the White House that never was and plan that never saw the light of day.
But now the secret is out. On May 29, the Romney Readiness Project, the Republican candidates transition organization known as R2P, published a 138-page report detailing how it prepared for a potential Romney victory. It is the product of a team of nearly 500, who labored in Washington and around the country to be ready to help Romney assume the reins of power on January 20th, 2013, in accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010.
The non-profit R2P, Inc., chaired by former Utah Gov. Michael Leavitt and run by former General Motors chief financial officer Christopher Liddell, benefited from free rent and other federal support, and drew heavily from the business and consulting community Romney, a former consultant and private equity executive, knew so well.
Among the recommendations for the Romney administration:
A plan to restructure White House operations to suit Romneys corporate management style, with clear deliverables.
Detailed flow charts delineating how information and decisions were disseminated through the administration to achieve unity.
Plans to evaluate Cabinet secretariess performance by systematically assessing the efforts of their departments in contributing to [Romney's] priorities and objectives, perhaps by a newly created deputy chief of staff for Cabinet oversight.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/06/02/mitt-romney-inc-the-white-house-that-never-was/
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)And he's crawling out out his hole again
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)in 2014, last time it worked out well for us.
malaise
(269,157 posts)orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Fascism to the highest degree and with more modern accoutrements.
A power-tool for the Oligarchs who would save so much money by not having to resort to their current methodology. Easy. Simple. Cut-and-dried.
summerschild
(725 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)please tell me it is satire.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,833 posts)Can you imagine what a horror show the "government" would have become?