>>>If he wins the White House, the only way for Romney to succeed will be to side with the nation’s voters and throw out the club in Washington. That will be great news for the country but bad news for political insiders on both sides of the partisan aisle.<<<
This is a hell of a lot to hope for. I keep thinking that maybe Romney will be, so to speak, the sheep in wolves clothing - that the first thing he does coming into office is rescinding Kennedy’s executive order allowing federal employees to unionize, or deliberate defunding of many federal agencies, or wholesale firing of upper levels of entrenched liberal bureaucrats.
The only small clue I see is that he chose Paul Ryan as VP.
On the other hand, maybe this will be like the 1900 election - McKinley dies early in his term, allowing the younger and more vigorous VP to make his imprint on the presidency.
My gut feeling, sadly, is that we’re looking at another Republican caretaker who will go along to get along, and the left will continue its deliberate destruction of American society. Eventually, the society will collapse or convulse. I hope I’m wrong. God help us.
From what I understand, it is actually impossible to grow ourselves out of this debt burden we’ve accumulated quickly, that it will take decades if we hold spending down.
The ONLY way quickly to fix our debt problem is cuts.
We sell all the cadillacs and buy used Fords.
the following is just A, B, C, and W of agencies and departments. The remainder are found here: http://www.usa.gov/directory/federal/W.shtml
•AbilityOne Commission
•Access Board
•Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
•Administration for Native Americans
•Administration on Aging (AoA)
•Administration on Developmental Disabilities
•Administrative Committee of the Federal Register
•Administrative Conference of the United States
•Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts
•Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
•African Development Foundation
•Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
•Agency for International Development (USAID)
•Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
•Agricultural Marketing Service
•Agricultural Research Service
•Agriculture Department
•Air Force
•Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
•Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Bureau
•American Battle Monuments Commission
•AmeriCorps
•Amtrak
•Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
•Antitrust Division
•Appalachian Regional Commission
•Architect of the Capitol
•Archives (National Archives and Records Administration)
•Arctic Research Commission
•Armed Forces Retirement Home
•Arms Control and International Security
•Army
•Army Corps of Engineers
•Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Interagency Coordinating •Bankruptcy Courts
•Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
•Bonneville Power Administration
•Botanic Garden
•Broadcasting Board of Governors
•Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade
•Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
•Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
•Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
•Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
•Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
•Bureau of Industry and Security
•Bureau of International Labor Affairs
•Bureau of Justice Statistics
•Bureau of Labor Statistics
•Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
•Bureau of Prisons
•Bureau of Reclamation
•Bureau of the Census
•Bureau of the Engraving and Printing
•Bureau of the Public Debt
•Bureau of Transportation Statistics
•Capitol Police
•Capitol Visitor Center
•Census Bureau
•Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
•Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
•Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
•Central Command (CENTCOM)
•Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
•Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
•Chief Acquisition Officers Council
•Chief Financial Officers Council
•Chief Human Capital Officers Council
•Chief Information Officers Council
•Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee
•Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
•Civilian Radioactive Waste Management
•Coast Guard
•Commerce Department
•Commission on Civil Rights
•Commission on Fine Arts
•Commission on International Religious Freedom
•Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (Helsinki Commission)
•Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements
•Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
•Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
•Community Planning and Development
•Compliance, Office of
•Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US CERT)
•Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
•Congressional Research Service
•Constitution Center
•Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
•Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
•Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
•Copyright Office
•Corporation for National and Community Service
•Corps of Engineers
•Council of Economic Advisers
•Council on Environmental Quality
•Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
•Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
•Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
•Court of Federal Claims
•Court of International Trade
•Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia
•Customs and Border Protection
•Washington Headquarters Services
•Weather Service
•West Point (Army)
•Western Area Power Administration
•White House
•White House Commission on Presidential Scholars
•White House Office of Administration
•Women’s Bureau (Labor Department)
•Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars