Posted on 11/09/2020 9:02:01 AM PST by The Pack Knight
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), a thorn in the side of President Trump for much of the last four years, has reportedly been asked by Joe Biden to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
“He is currently discussing the nomination with his family and is expected to accept the appointment,” The Buffalo Chronicle reported Saturday.
“Biden advisors expect that Romney — a former management consultant by training and a former CEO of Bain Capital — will be tasked with making the national healthcare system more affordable without legislation that modifies the Affordable Care Act,” the Chronicle reported. “It’s unclear if Romney will be tasked with creating open market pricing systems for a’la carte medical services, which could advance the work that the Trump administration has done to require providers to make pricing for their services public. That strategy is seen as key to creating a price competitive atmosphere between providers.”
But should Romney accept such an appointment, that would cost the GOP a senator — at least temporarily. “According to State law in Utah a Senate vacancy will be filled by gubernatorial appointment from one of three individuals nominated by the Legislature, each of whom must be a member of the political party of the prior officeholder,” the paper wrote.
According to the Chronicle, Romney hopes that Republican Governor Gary Herbert will appoint former Rep. Mia Love (R) to fill the vacancy.
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Going to be in charge of the ACA? Playing his comments on the ACA from the 2012 election season would make for interesting committee hearings during his confirmation.
The only bright side is that it would remove him from the Senate with the possibility of a more reliable Senator being appointed in his place. That would reduce the number of “Super RINOs” to 2 (Murkowski and Collins) so if we hold both Senate seats in Georgia they would have somewhat less sway...though a 50-50 vote would still result in a Harris tie breaker.
Remember...before Obamacare, there was the model of Romneycare in the state of Taxachusetts...
This just proves two things...
1. Romney has always been a RINO...
2. Romney must be up to elbows in government pay-for-play corruption...just like Sleep Joe...
Annnnnnd there’s the Biden payoff.
Romney is a Democrat in Republican’s suit....................
The traitor gets paid.
exactly, the only reason he ran for Senate to begin with was to be a POS and be a thorn in the side of Trump for however long he was POTUS....
If Trump doesn’t succeed in overturning the fraud, Romney will have no reason to be in the Senate and would jump at the chance to by BIPARTISAN....LOL
Romney doesn’t want to be a junior Senator. He’s only there to undermine POTUS.
Hmm...well it would be at least a nominal improvement unless she decides she wants to showboat like Romney.
Well, his party of preference won, and Biden should thank Mitt for all the help he gave to the democrats, and as a reward, Mitt should be given a position in his cabinet, but democrats should make him the head of the DNC.
He can do to Medicare and Medicaid what he did to the Big Dig.
Governor Gary Herbert did not run for reelection. It is more likely governor Herbert is selected by our new governor Cox.
I have a distant cousin (3rd, I think) who is on the state committee and can't stand Mitt. She is a beer swilling Mormonite (Jack Mormons, I think they call them) but is so conservative that she makes me look like Bernie Sanders in comparison.
Yeah...Ambassador to Siberia
I have better descriptive terms for Romney of the magic underwear, but I will refrain from posting them here. Ooops my dogs just did a Romney in the back yard.
China will pay him more as a cabinet head than a Senator.
They may as well put up a ‘Made in China’ sign outside Capitol Hill. They own a major portion of it already along with a pile of state secrets and FBI files.
Call folks like Mitt and Bloomy what they are, dirty ‘businessmen’.. and guess who else benefits? Not the USA.
China will pay him more as a cabinet head than a Senator.
They may as well put up a ‘Made in China’ sign outside Capitol Hill. They own a major portion of it already along with a pile of state secrets and FBI files.
Call folks like Mitt and Bloomy what they are, dirty ‘businessmen’.. and guess who else benefits? Not the USA.
Watch the Senate...
If the GA seats are stolen and we end up 50-50...?
Watch out for Murkowski or Collins to Jump over to D side...
Then batten down the hatches...
Romney has a vested interest in making sure no one sees the laptop from hell, donchaknow.
“That’s what basically The Lincoln Project is, the RINOs parting Temper Tantrum, as they know they’ve lost to Trump.”
All dead meat hanging, just awaiting the butcher.
If the discredited institutions allow the coup to stand, there is no reason conservative nationalists should not cleanse the Republican party in both primary and general elections.
We’ll finally be rid of these traitorous bastards.
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