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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Apr '11
Re: What Should Romney's White House Agenda Look Like?
liberal jim
James Of England
Do you think that he's only pretending to be interested in saving America from bankruptcy? ·
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.
His lifetime in balancing budgets and rescuing failing entities is less illuminating than his similarity to Bush? Is he like Bush in every respect?
May '11
Re: What Should Romney's White House Agenda Look Like?
genferei:
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. · 4 hours ago
WHAT HE SAID!!!!!!!
Jul '12
Re: What Should Romney's White House Agenda Look Like?
Jacob, I understand where you're coming from, but disagree for two reasons.
1) The President's Constitutional mandate is to see that the laws are executed faithfully. Whether it's good policy or bad, whether you like it or not, Obamacare is the law of the land. Rather than granting more waivers, President Romney should eliminate the 1000+ waivers already granted.
2) Eliminating the existing waivers will make the bill more unpopular, and thus increase pressure on Congress to repeal it. The President can encourage and negotiate, but has no power to repeal a law.
Basically, I'm uncomfortable allowing the President to have the authority deciding who does and does not have to obey Congressionally passed laws. Even if I like and trust him and his waiver benefits me.