On a lighter note, I enjoyed reading this little opinon column. I do disagree with the author on a couple of points.

I would prefer:

1. Sarah Palin as Secretary of Energy or Interior

2. John Bolton as Secretary of State

3. If Romney were elected, this would mean that Ron Paul was not and I would hope that he would be the Secretary of the Treasury giving him the FED on a platter.

4. Joe Arpaio as the Homeland Security Director.

5. Issa as Speaker of the House and Sessions as the Senate Majority Leader.

Haven't decided on an Attorney General.........

GOP victory would raise specter of a frightening scenario

Published: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 8:32 AM Updated: Sunday, January 22, 2012, 9:46 AM

Staten Island Advance

OPINION

By THOMAS V. MURPHY

Some darkly speculate that the 2012 elections will sweep progressives into exile. Envision a new retrograde administration. Interchange freely any of several contenders as polls vary. (Liberals: Read, shudder, roll up your sleeves, get to work!)

Imagine: President-elect Mitt Romney and Vice President-elect Condoleeza Rice arrive at the blizzard-snowy Capitol for swearing in. The invocation by a creationist fundamentalist, blessed the anti-federalist 10th Amendment, invoking states' rights freedoms on environmentalism, consumerism, labor, education, and of course, evolution (as just "a theory that's out there").

The new president's inaugural address -- January 20, 2013:

Romney proclaims "a new restoration of American freedom" has consigned progressives to the ash heap of history. Regulations of industry, finance, consumerism, the environment and health care will give way to entrepreneurial initiative. Old fashioned American ingenuity will blossom.

With the repeal of socialized health care, medical insurers and pharmaceuticals will have restored to them the free market that has made our health system the best in the world. Investing in innovative research will facilitate price structures commensurate with investments. Only the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith's competitive capitalism will self-regulate their unbounded incentive.

The workforce can expect an economic resurgence as labor law is scaled back, allowing employers to control their own businesses. "Re-evaluations" of overly burdensome and costly plant safety straightjacket rules will enable businesses to pour those savings back into running their operations to reap increased corporate profits and trickle down to benefit consumers. Federal right-to-work laws will eliminate labor's elitist stranglehold on industry.

His peroration: Let natural resources be used as God intended in creation, to be exploited by mankind;

Let's end prohibitive restrictions on economic development;

Let's liberate developers of coal, oil, natural gas, timber, the fisheries and crop-saving pesticides as handmaidens of innovative business practices, free of government regulations;

Let's encourage new products, lower prices and industrial growth on the WalMart model of low wages and no costly benefits or employee control;

Let radical science alarmists no longer prevent the advance of chemical and biological product experimentation;

Let traditional families prevail over destructive alternative life styles;

Let Homeland Security's mandate be domestic surveillance and immigration deportation, (with non-union worker exemptions for needy business interests);

Let our foreign policy motto be "Don't Tread On Me" with a military budget to match any perceived threat to our international commercial interests; Let triumphant 'American Exceptionalism' dominate and astound the world;

And finally ... Let the good Lord's sun shine on this "new restoration of American freedom."

Speaker of The House Eric Cantor's top priority H.R.1, The Social Services Budget Adjustment Act, will be followed with H.R. 2, The Privatization Of Social Security And Medicare Act.

Senate Majority Leader Rand Paul's S.1. Market Freedom In Health Services Act will be introduced. With a 71-29 filibuster-free majority, he expects enactment before the State Of The Union Address this month.

Supreme Court nominee Rick Santorum will be fast-tracked through Senate confirmation for the upcoming reviews of Roe-v-Wade, Dodd-Frank financial reform, labor laws and traditional marriage appeals.

Labor Secretary-designate, Ohio Governor John Kasich, said public employees should expect legislation excluding them from collective bargaining. Omnibus reviews of labor laws will include a pro-business reconfiguration of the National Labor Review Board.

Education Secretary Michelle Rhee and Health/Human Resources Secretary Michele Bachmann jointly announced the Traditional Family Supremacy Policy, endorsing private school vouchers, voluntary deviant-behavior reorientation programs and a review of public library reading catalogues.

Treasury Secretary Paul Ryan endorsed libertarian, anti-government author Ayn Rand's concept of "rational self-interest" which liberates individuals from overblown commitments to others who wallow in their inability to lift themselves up by their bootstraps. Free-market tax policies will allow personal initiative to flourish.

Secretary of State Jon Huntsman initialed an agreement written in Mandarin, maximizing U.S. corporate production in Chinese factories employing only communist government controlled unions.

Defense Secretary John McCain indefinitely extended our military presence in Afghanistan. He denied that the concentration of nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers in the Indian Ocean and eastern Mediterranean had any hostile intent.

Sarah Palin's first pronouncement as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau nullified decisions made under former President Obama's interim appointee as unconstitutional. Agency powers will devolve to the states, giving governors the authority to develop voluntary consumer fraud guidelines favorable to local businesses.

At his first daily White House briefing, Press Secretary Bill O'Reilly distributed forms to members of the press to submit questions in advance, warning that reporters with "an agenda" will be ridiculed.

He encouraged a common sense dissemination of information, hailing a Fox News poll showing union member and retiree support for the administration's dismissal of National Labor Relations Board appointees and the program to curtail socialistic "entitlements" such as Social Security and Medicare, saying "That should be your common sense headline."

It was proclaimed that the intense blizzard currently disrupting the Inauguration ceremonies was evidence that global warming is scientific charlatanism. As the good Lord's sun broke through on President Romney's repeated Inaugural theme, "a new restoration of American freedom," the spontaneous pealing of church bells was heard throughout the land.

Staten Island Advance