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I think there is a good consensus that a government purge is in order.

The planning for this should begin now, with the RNC, and the senate (potential) and house committee chairmen compiling long lists of appointees and bureaucrats who have misused their offices.

Because it can be very difficult to fire GS bureaucrats, the first step should be to transfer thousands of them to agencies slated for closure. If they are fired outright they can sue, but if their agency is discontinued, tough.

The next step will be the agency closures themselves. Cabinet officers should be appointed to shut down their various agencies, presenting budgets to congress that reflect this “downsizing”.

These closures should be done one after the other, because the Democrats will bitterly object to any closures, and by the time they can muster support to try and preserve some agency, distract them by shutting down another one.

After this, then the congressional committees will work full time to produce budgets - a big part of which will be to convert allocations that are currently micromanaged by the bureaucracy, into block grants to the states, left up to the states to manage as long as they meet minimum standards.

Harry Reid, as the minority leader of the senate, will still try to prevent any budgets, as he has done for the last 4 years, so the senate majority leader will have to pay the Democrats back by shutting them out of the process as much as they have shut the Republicans out of the process. No more “playing by the rules only when the Republicans are in power.”

After this, then there must be a major downgrade of the powers of the office of the president, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy.

The judiciary will be restricted in its interference with the states by the senate and house judiciary committees. This includes considerable narrowing of the reasons for death penalty appeals.

The POTUS must work with congress to limit the power of the presidency in the following ways:

1) Prohibition of Czars. Presidential actions, except White House operations, must be through confirmed cabinet members. Czars cannot use government monies, and will have no authority.

2) Prohibition of Presidential Signing Statements, Prohibition of the use of Presidential Proclamations to take state lands (along with returning the vast majority of existing land takings). Strict definition to Executive Privilege, along with exclusions.

3) Restoration and strengthening of the War Powers Act and the Posse Comitatus Act.

4) Strictly limit the ceremonial duties, public appearances, and foreign travel of the POTUS. This is why he has subordinates.

After this, the next step for a Romney presidency should be:

1) Restore and enlarge the FCC broadcast ownership rules, to bust up the media oligopoly in the United States.

2) The completion of the border fence with Mexico.

3) The rapid expulsion of non-Mexican illegal aliens from the US. (Strictly because of the numbers involved, and the greater threat of non-Mexican illegal aliens to US national security.)

Seriously, the US needs to consider a suspension of any Muslim immigration or travel to the US.