Posted on 10/12/2007 2:07:18 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
250 million of that was for security and was well spent right after 9/11. The Olympics helped the Nation to heal.
The Atlanta Olympics cost the FED over 609 million. Romney did an excellent job.
Great solution. It's exactly what Romney did in Mass. Here's one example of a merger below.
As far as reorganization... I think you have been reading the Mitt threads too long.... I know you are virulently anti-Mitt but reorganization is why Romney has been called the best businessman in North America. You are starting to parrot some of his undisputed strengths. He reorganized companies for 20 years as a Venture Capitalist, reorganized the Olympics and did it as well to Departments in Mass. Its how he cut the 3 billion deficit. Romney's way of reorgnaizing and fiscal conservatism is exactly what the Govt. needs. I assume your agreeing with Romney on this point was just an abberation. Please continue on with Mitt Bashing...
From wiki-
The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is best known for its parks and parkways, formerly belonging to the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) and the Department of Environmental Management (DEM). Under Governor Mitt Romney, the MDC and DEM were merged to form the DCR.
So, because Atlanta grabs money, Utah grabs money. Right. Got it. Conservatives in Action. Bright and shiny Utah Olympics are good for Mitt, come see the Mitt show, unless we get down to the money, in which case everybody does it. What’s that called, cherry-picking? Part of the story?
Oh, that’s right, he was, um, what ever back then.
Anyways, on to the Big Dig. How’d Mitt do there? I’m sure you will have an excuse. Democrats. Dog ate the invoices. Was that way when he got there.
Do you think Mitt will do to the Republicans nationally, what he did in Massachusetts? Granted, not much of a party. Sick, weak, able to be taken over and have it’s last breath exploited by Mitt, and then left for dead. Where were Mitts coat tails?
How’s Mitts forced, state controlled, social-—is—tic Massachusetts Liberal, employment-for-life, heath care doing? Oh, that’s right, the Heritage Foundation made him do it. Check.
He did great fixing a DEM instigated disaster.
The plans were from the 1980's. Construction started in in 1991. Before 2001, Turnpike Authority officials and private contractors knew of thousands of leaks in the ceiling and wall fissures, extensive water damage to steel supports and fireproofing systems, and overloaded drainage systems.
Mitt came in and booted corrupt DEM appointed contractors and inspection officals and seized control of the project and got it fixed.
“Mitt came in and booted corrupt DEM appointed contractors and inspection officals and seized control of the project and got it fixed.”
Yahoo!
Say, I have a Q for you. Have you recently received “Temporarily Unavailable” messages when trying to post a reply on FR?
“He’s just got a ‘manchurian candidate’ vibe to him”
In your humble opinion.
Mitt Romney is a fine man and I am proud to support him. He has a wonderful, strong, committed family life. He has a proven record of conservative leadership. He does not deserve all these cheap shots.
“So, we got one raid on the nation for 400 million to friends in Utah, and a asleep at the corner office to the tune of billions as Massachusetts Governor.( In fairness, a few billion wasn’t his fault, but he did zero, nada, zip)”
Ignorance abounds, along with cheap shots. This is absolutely heinous. What does the word “fairness” mean to you?
I am so fed up with this garbage. And you try to use humor to cover your corruption.
So, as you said they were corrupt. And he 'booted' them? Wow, that's rugged. Tough. Like, John Wayne on the Charles. "Hey ya there, ya corrupt varmint. I be Willard, and you have been a cheat'n and a thiev'n and ...and..your booted."
Good old Mitt, riding the Political range on sunshine and a smile.
I live in Massachusetts, and voted for Mitt. He was a timid, managerial, ticket-puncher that used the state as a resume buffing exercise for his true goal of running for President.
Mitt never want any local Massachusetts office. He didn’t want to get into and mix it up in the very dirty, rough and desperate politics of this state.
His first run for office was for Ted Kennedy’s seat. He could of won it if he wasn’t such a stiff. Which, he is still. A nice stiff. A clean stiff, with a photo perfect family. But, a stiff never the less.
I don’t know why he didn’t run against Fat Ted again, I just figure as Mitt the water testing, number crunching, risk adverse stiff that he is, decided that he should find weaker opponents. Which to his learning curve, he did.
I can say that Ted Kennedy will eat him alive. Ted knows that even in his dotage, he kicked a clean cut, real businessman, honest, well educated Mitt all over the mat, and Mitt never came back for more.
Which kind of fits into my long years of watching Mitt. If he meets a determined obstacle, he just carpementlizes it and moves on. This should be really good for Washington.
Mitt should of run for a congressional seat. He really would of learned and changed with down in the dirt, retail politics. Alas, he didn’t. It would of been too ethnic for him. Too plebeian.
Post 49 equates Mitt Romney with Jim Jones - killing people with Kool-Aid. That is horrible. Mitt Romney is a fine Christian family man.
You are not using sarcasm - those are cheap - very cheap - shots.
That troubles me also, and that's why I can't support him in the primary. I definitely would vote for him in the general election if he gets the GOP nod, because at least he's saying the right things now--unlike Rudy.
Mitt's supporters should think ahead to the ads Hitlery's friends would run in September-October: back-to-back sound bites of liberal Mitt vs. "conservative" Mitt. They would be devastatingly effective for the Hitlery campaign.
I can’t wait for Mitt to debate Hillary on health care. Of all the GOP candidates, Mitt is the only one with credibility and a proven record of DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT instead of TALK TALK TALK. Mitt is a fierce campaigner and learned hard lessons during trying to kick Ted Kennedy out of the Senate.
I think Romney will do just fine up against Hillary. Just fine.
Actually I think Romeny is the ONLY Republican candidate who CAN REALLY beat Hillary.
I think Romney will do just fine up against Hillary. Just fine.
Yes, Mitt would do well against Hitlery talking about health care. Most of the current GOP field would.
What if the topic is abortion? Hitlery would say something like, "Well, I know where I stand, but as for Mr. Romney, it seems to depend on which office he's running for." What's Mitt's reply?
Any Republican will beat Hillary.
Wishful thinking, try again. Her husband had the most corrupt first term in history, but won a second.
The people that do the work, do the work.
The notion that any, bloviating, finger snapping politician does anything but use force is delusional.
It is like the War on Terror. The soldiers and officers and agents do the war.
Politicians, as a scummy class that they are, are always saying ‘I do bla, bla, bla’. Bull. No sale. Peddle elsewhere.
If any Politician want’s to improve health care, become a nurses aid.
What Mitt did do is expand government force, increase socialism, increase costs, rules, regulations and take away choice. Of course, like any good elitist paternalist, it was for the good of the peasants, the little people, the children.
Delivering yet more authority, power and liberties into the hands of the Massachusetts legislature is not my notion of conservatism. However, it does sell well for those that see what they want to believe.
That Clinton won, like his first election, wasn’t so much Clintons as Republican’s putting up uncommunicative stiffs. Hillary is the Mondale, Humphrey, Dukakis of her time. I'm not hustled by MSM love. They loved the others too.
Gimme a break. I could parrot your same arguments for him right up until he won election as Governor (remember, I supported THAT). It was AFTER he held elective office that demonstrated he was incapable at worst and hogtied at best to do what needed to be done. See, because of the fact he shrank the GOP strength even further in the legislature meant that a Republican Governor had no bloc of members to sustain a veto. Even had your boy managed to drag Kerry Healey’s butt to a term of her own, she wouldn’t be able to a damn thing. So again, spare me all the so-called wonderful things that he did, because the proof is in the pudding. He left the place in the worst-off state it has ever been in, and if you think he’d accomplish anything positive for Conservatives and the GOP in DC, you’re dreaming. Anything that would happen positively would be by accident, not on purpose, and would swiftly be changed to make it a negative for us. That’s the Precious Willard Way.
BTW, has your boy suggested closing down or reorganizing federal departments ? I’d love to see the reaction from his liberal buddies if he did. That’s a big no-no.
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