What Should Romney's White House Agenda Look Like?
Richard Fulmer ·
October 1, 2012 at 5:39pm
If Romney wins the election, he will have a short window in which to push his agenda. Traditionally, presidents get a hundred-day grace period, but the Democrats and the MSM will work to reduce or eliminate this. Romney will therefore have to act quickly. His first moves should be carefully chosen. He needs actions that will produce immediate positive results, providing the political capital needed to push the rest of his agenda. No doubt some of his actions will be dictated by events. Obama is showing no interest in providing the leadership needed to deal with either the coming "fiscal cliff" or the Iranian situation. Most likely, Romney will need to address each of these issues quickly.
What should Romney do and in what order?
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Nov '10
Re: What Should Romney's White House Agenda Look Like?
Get Congress to repeal the incandescent lightbulb ban. It's symbolic but would be universally popular.
Aug '11
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Cut taxes and repeal Obamacare.
Sep '10
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He would meet with liberal Democrats and establishment Republicans to plan how to implement a progressive agenda. No one honestly believes he is constrained by conservative principles.
Apr '11
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Three challenging bills, a bunch of executive orders, and a handful of easier bills:
Pass most of the Ryan Plan in its modified Romney form in a single behemoth budget bill, negotiated with the problem senators (possibly including a Democrat) during Obama's lame duck. This will include a repeal of the sequester.
Pass, essentially, Ryan-Wyden in a somewhat easier bill, repealing Obamacare.
Pass a tax reform eliminating state and local tax deductions, halving the second mortgage deduction and cutting the overall rate.
Pass the education reform bill (federal education money losing most of its current requirements and replacing them with school choice), skilled immigration reform (making it easier for high skill workers to come to the US), and either repeal Davis Bacon or get something from a labor supporting Senator.
Get Ben Nelson or another Democrat Senator with a Republican governor into a cabinet post.
Put in place the committees to rationalize discretionary spending and to cut regulation.
Pass the many executive orders needed to free up the energy sector.
Apr '11
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Do you think that he's only pretending to be interested in saving America from bankruptcy?
Dec '11
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Day 1- Cowbell
Day 2- Release the Ryan
Day 3- Get guys like this one and this one involved in the GWOT
Day 4- do what Romney does best analyse/delegate/ pick good leaders
Apr '12
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Reign in or eliminate regulatory agencies, he can do this with little contention by simply reducing their funding. Set up a task force to discover any such agencies working under the radar.
Have Ryan head up a committee to discover the best way to extricate Obamacare.
Invite Harper, Cameron, and Netanyahu to the White House accepting their ideas on leadership, Churchill bust, and map to Iran, respectively.
Nov '11
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Hear, hear. Reigning in the EPA should be a top priority. No doubt a lot of Obama's executive orders need to be repealed as well.
Nov '11
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Personnel is everything.
Sep '12
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Issue an executive order reversing ALL of Obama's executive orders.
Fire all the czars, find a way to get rid of Ben Bernanke, and clean house in the DOJ.
Nov '11
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I like this, but I wonder if it shouldn't be initiated in the House rather than by the President. Given the severity of the problems facing the country, I think that Romney should concentrate on (and be seen concentrating on) "big" items such as jobs, the economy, Obamacare, and Iran.
Aug '12
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Repeal Obamacare.
Hit hard and fast on everything.
Address the public every week, through internet videos, explaining what he is doing and why.
May '10
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Go Milton Freidman all the way.
Dec '10
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I'm beginning to believe the nation will be in full crisis at the time of inauguration if Romney wins. The only motivation Obama has for averting it is if he plans to run again in 2016, which, unlike others, I believe to be only a 50/50 proposition. (Sorry, I just don't believe Obama loves the country enough to help us over his political prospects)
The downside is, we'll be in full crisis. The upside is, it's easier to enact critical reforms in a hurry when the bottom is falling out (never let a crisis go to waste). So first, Romney should undo whatever he can of Obama's disastrous policies. Then, he should make government make sense again.
That's quite a lot, but he may have longer than 100 days if the country is in as much trouble as I think it is. /smiley face! /have a nice day!
Feb '12
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1a. Avoid largest tax increase in history (if not done in lame duck session)!
1b. Grant waiver to all 50 states for Obamacare in addition to other exec measures to limit its implementation.
2. Eliminate ridiculous regulatory expansion of last four years through exec measures, agency directives (non-legislative).
3. Eliminate all the czar positions and superfluous exec office positions created over past four years.
4. Move to legislation = tax reform, repeal of Affordable Care Act, Energy Bill, and substantial reductions in discretionary spending - hopefully removing an executive department or two
Medicare and SS reform will probably take longer than 100 days. Actually, Repeal might too. If repeal fails, strip away as much as possible from Affordable Care Act.
Nov '10
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He can pull and Obama and announce that his IRS and Treasury Department will not enforce any tax law that Romney doesn't like, etc.
Oct '10
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1. Repeal Obamacare
2. Eliminate the Department of Energy
3. Hamstring the EPA
4. Tax reform (reduce overall rate, broaden base)
And then watch the US energy revolution take the economy forward. As the Russians say, "A full belly conquers all."
Sep '10
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James Of England
Do you think that he's only pretending to be interested in saving America from bankruptcy? · 6 hours ago
He, like most moderate Republicans think government action is the solution to our problems. Deficits will no more constrain him than they did Bush.
The purse strings of the nation have been in the hands of Republicans for the past 2 years and nothing has been done. Republican's explanation for this is that if they refused to go a long with the spending, shut the government down, they would not get reelected. They go on to explain that if they do not get reelected they can't do anything about government spending.
The Republicans song and dance under Bush was even more ridiculous.
Market forces will at some point force fiscal discipline on Washington DC. Until that time the corrupt wimps that control both parties will content themselves with making excuses.
Jul '11
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Balanced budget amendment. That's all I ask.
Oct '10
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To sustain the revolution, reactionary forces must be ruthlessly suppressed.
Step 1: Distract the Legacy Media with a 4-year series of Congressional investigations into media-bias, payola, circulation number fraud, ownership concentration - whatever it takes to keep their eye off the ball.
Step 2: Prevent all expenditure by the executive on the Legacy Media. For example, move all advertising expenditure on-line - no more situations vacant or public service announcements in newspapers or on TV.
Step 3: Prevent all expenditure by the executive that ends up supporting the opposition. If some portion of a program's funds ends up in the hands of 'community organizers', stop it. Better 100 orphans go hungry than a single Acorn is allowed to grow.
Step 4: Attack Wall St and Hollywood tax breaks and accounting practices in the name of fairness and transparency. Aggressively pursue breaking up large banks and studios. If these industries want to fund Democrats, they're going to have to pay the price.
Step 5: Break the unions. Outlaw public sector unions. Make it illegal to use union dues for political purposes. Make it a serious offence to use government premises for electioneering. Prosecute promiscuously. Make them hurt.