Huffpo is claiming that they’ve found remnants of the website Romney hoped to launch when he was elected and also that they’ve spoken to the web company that designed it. They have screenshots.
For your majesty’s viewing pleasure.
Huffpo is claiming that they’ve found remnants of the website Romney hoped to launch when he was elected and also that they’ve spoken to the web company that designed it. They have screenshots.
For your majesty’s viewing pleasure.
It was kind of incompetent for the development company to have it visible to the whole world.
Which is in itself a microcosm of Republicanism today.
It might not have been up for the whole world to see. Chances are good this was a “demo” that was slapped together quickly to show the Romney people and let them have their input on what to add or change. Most website developers have their clients review the work in progress.
Still, somebody who had access to this “secret” site must have eagerly passed it along to others to see, and that is how this became public enough for others to capture screen shots. If this had actually been posted longer, I am sure it would have gotten millions of hits in a matter of moments and there would be far more images and pages to scan and keep for posterity. Too bad - I would have loved to see the entire website!
Yes, but it should have been password protected.
That really is a very, very simple site from the look of it. I’ve seen ratteries with more complex websites.
Kinda gives me the shivers though.
My question is, can a president really do that? I.e. use an executive order to exempt a state from legislated regulations?
Why not? HHS has been issuing waivers for many companies so they don’t have to comply with the parts of the HCR act that have already taken effect. Is there any difference?
The waivers are part of the healthcare bill. As I understand it, the point is to allow the states to experiment with different ways of implementing it, contingent on permission from the executive.
But I don’t think he could force waivers on states that like the bill as is.
I read, somewhere I forget now, that Romney planned to issue a hundred executive orders on day 1 and then start pushing congress for big bipartisan bills. I remember thinking that sounded like the kind of thing a CEO would do but it would be a disaster if he actually tried to implement it all.
If the state liked the bill as it is, they wouldn’t ask for a waiver. The point of the waiver idea is that he’d issue them to states who asked to be exempted from the ACA.
From the Huffington Post article:
If this is accurate then Romney was planning to issue waivers to all 50 states, not just those who asked.
Alright, I phrased that badly. The point is that states that didn’t want a waiver wouldn’t have used it. It sounds like the idea was to let all the (Republican-lead) states who wants to quit the ACA immediately to do just that while the federal government got to work repealing the whole law.
“What would Romney have done?” Which Romney? Tea Party Romney? Moderate Romney? Which one?
When Bill Clinton warned voters that Romney was going to try to make good on his (conservative) campaign promises, I thought he was probably right. Romney didn’t un-make those promises so much as he denied making them.
How scary is it that the Romney campaign apparently genuinely had absolutely NO CLUE that they were going to lose? Good Lord, Iran could have shoved a nuke up Romney’s butt before he figured it out that they had a delivery system.
Wow… no wonder McCain went with Palin.
Yeah, that too. I mean… how tight were those blinders?
That goes along with the whole “only wrote a victory speech, not a concession speech” tidbit too.
Eh, I don’t know that I’d use this as evidence that the Romney campaign was blindly assured of victory (the lack of a concession speech makes that case all on its own). Don’t forget that Obama’s “Change.gov” website went up the day after he was elected in 2008.
Campaigns build these sorts of things in advance. It’s like how there are boxes of “WORLD SERIES CHAMPION” t-shirts prepped for both teams, except that the losers of the presidency presumably don’t end up with their shirts sent to the third world.
Right, they need to. You can’t do all that on election night. We also heard reports that Romney had assembled a transition team and was at least thinking about cabinet choices, and even though he apparently did not really know where he stood in the polls, it would have been stupid not to make some preparations. And do we think other candidates wrote their concession speeches well ahead of time? If they do, they certainly aren’t going to admit it. You could tell Romney’s was prepared at the last minute and it certainly doesn’t compare favorably to McCain’s, but still.