Shudder, Mittens'transition team is working; & his governing style "like at Bain Capital" - really!1

[UTUSN]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/politics/mitt-romneys-transition-team-is-hard-at-work.html

[font size=5]Campaigning Aside, Team Plans a Romney Presidency[/font]

By ASHLEY PARKER

WASHINGTON — As Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan fanned out across the country this week, glad-handing voters and donors, a smaller but no less important gathering was taking place on Capitol Hill: Mr. Romney’s transition team met on Tuesday with more than a dozen loyalists from the private and public sectors in space borrowed from a law office.

Mr. Romney’s transition team, which has quietly been ramping up since June, is an extension of his campaign and reflects many hallmarks of the Romney operation — methodical and disciplined, with acute attention to detail. The team also offers a glimpse of what might be Mr. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Romney’s approach to governing, functioning much like his old private equity firm, Bain Capital.[/FONT] The team is assessing the government and looking for ways to make it more efficient and streamlined.

“With Mitt, his approach to problem solving is first to identify the problem, make sure you’re solving for the problem actually there; second, look at best practices; third, apply best practices to the problem at hand; and fourth, execute on it,” said Beth Myers, a top Romney adviser who worked on his transition team in 2003, when he became governor of Massachusetts.

Mr. Romney’s transition team, known within the campaign as “The Readiness Project,” is led by Mike Leavitt, a former governor of Utah and a former secretary of Health and Human Services, and until recently included only three other advisers — Ms. Myers; Bob White, a longtime friend of Mr. Romney who was chairman of his transition in Massachusetts; and Ron Kaufman, a senior adviser and Republican national committee member from Massachusetts. ....

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[Jackpine Radical]

1. Sounds like something plagiarized from a management textbook.

“With Mitt, his approach to problem solving is first to identify the problem, make sure you’re solving for the problem actually there; second, look at best practices; third, apply best practices to the problem at hand; and fourth, execute on it,” said Beth Myers, a top Romney adviser who worked on his transition team in 2003, when he became governor of Massachusetts.

[beac]

2. The only transition that team will ever manage is sending Mittens

into well-deserved obscurity.

[UTUSN]

3. From your lips to Zeus's ear, but we mock at our own peril!1 n/t

[beac]

5. Yup, even with Mittens woeful incompetence on display daily, I still

worry about the gullibility of low-information "independents" and the incredible power of racism... not to mention black box voting.

I'll be working hard right up to election day. We all have to!

[Voice for Peace]

4. "the Romney operation — methodical and disciplined, with acute attention to detail" ahahahaa ahahaha

maybe they meant to say "a cute attention to detail" -- that would make more sense.

[napkinz]

6. "Romney’s approach to governing, functioning much like ... Bain Capital."

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. So they are going to run this country like a vulture capitalist firm?

Load it up with debt and then outsource when they determine labor costs are too high?

Kinda sounds like how he ran Massachusetts: loading up the deficit and sending jobs to India. Imagine that on a national scale.