“Most telling” in Jeff Anderson’s eyes is that, on page 6 of “Believe in America,” Romney lists “five bills for Day One” of his administration. They involve: (1) cutting the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent; (2) implementing the Colombia, Panama, and South Korea free trade agreements; (3) surveying American energy reserves; (4) restructuring federal job-retraining programs; (5) cutting non-security discretionary spending by 5 percent. Anything missing from that list?
True, on the next page, Romney promises an executive order to “pave the way to end Obamacare” by granting waivers from the law to the 50 states, where applicable. But this is barely serious: most of the law isn’t subject to federal waivers, and a future Democratic President could reverse any executive order signed by Romney.
And it’s also strange, insofar as the House of Representatives this year, in their first legislative act, repealed Obamacare. If Republicans take hold of the Senate in 2012, they could repeal nearly all of the law through the reconciliation process—though they would likely have to except some of the Medicare cuts that Romney strongly opposes.
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