This is an interesting article

[bertine]

Why the GOP Should Fear a Romney Presidency

Romney will face these problems early in his presidency. He will inherit the leadership of a party with commitments to (1) further increasing tax cuts -- especially for the wealthy; (2) reducing deficits; (3) shrinking the size of government; (4) increasing defense spending; and (5) promoting a muscular foreign policy unafraid to use military force to solve foreign-policy problems, for example, in Iran and Syria. At the same time, Romney has promised to "save" popular middle-class entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, and to replace Obamacare with reforms that keep its most popular elements but jettison the features that make it economically practical. To top it off, he faces a reckoning in January 2013, when the Bush tax cuts expire and a sequester of defense and social programs goes into effect. That combination of tax increases and spending cuts will help solve the deficit problem, but it risks pushing the economy into a new recession, and it is completely unacceptable to the tax cutters and defense hawks in his party.


He is also going to do one on Obama's second term.

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I like how "Day One" he's going to do everything.

[bertine.livejournal.com]

I think it is funny how much power people think the President has. As Obama (and Bush at the end of his second term) has shown, you can't do anything without congress and even if you are on the same party it doesn't mean they want to push your policies.

[i12bmore.livejournal.com]

This times a thousand. I think, even with Congress with historic-low approval ratings, there won't be a substantive change in Congress because the average American misattributes to the President powers and responsibilities that belong to Congress.

[jayp39.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the one thing that presidents do have a lot of power in is appointing supreme court justices. Even then they need congressional cooperation, but if the president and congress are in the same party there's unlikely to be anything stopping the president from picking whoever they want.