Think of it as the first baby step.
Real cutting will only happen after 2012, when the Republicans pick up the senate.
Hopefully, there is a very strong, very conservative candidate who will run for president as well. Though he will have to announce late in the game, because he is going to be attacked and vilified with every bit of hatred and bile the Democrats can muster.
His best bet will probably be to order a return of most American combat forces, so his focus can almost exclusively be on domestic policy—something that Republican presidents have traditionally disliked.
But this can be done safely only if congress seals the US borders first thing, primarily to Muslim entry. An embargo of Muslim entry for four years. And no guff from federal judges that it is discriminatory.
The Republican will have to lead a Republican House and Senate to enormous cuts with dizzying speed. Closing entire agencies of government, then perhaps passing balanced budget and presidential line item veto amendments to the States.
Layoffs in the federal service of a third to a half of all government employees. And if any federal judge interferes, then threaten them with impeachment. And if this means cancelling their federal employee collective bargaining rights, so be it, and decertify the union at the same time.
Congress and the president should be laying off and closing parts of the government so rapidly that every day for months there should be a news story, and the bureaucracy will be so frazzled that they cannot launch a defense or counter attack.
A Republican without a jobs for Americans plan is a waste.
“And if this means cancelling their federal employee collective bargaining rights, so be it, and decertify the union at the same time.”
Federal employee unions may not bargain for wages or for benefits including healthcare or retirement.
Yeah, just like now, right? Nothing was cut because the funding for these so called cuts will still go on. Damn, are we stupid. Bonehead has got to go.