{"id":1424,"date":"2012-11-05T07:29:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2012-11-05T07:29:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:29:17","slug":"the-choice-for-tomorrow-hughhewitt-com-11-5-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/05\/the-choice-for-tomorrow-hughhewitt-com-11-5-12\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choice For Tomorrow | HughHewitt.com | 11.5.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Among the great failures of the mainstream media in this campaign has been to claim that neither candidate has laid out an agenda. \u00a0Both have been as clear as candidates can be about their plans for the nation in the next four years. \u00a0On this, the day before Election Day, let\u2019s review the particulars:<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Energy<\/strong>: President Romney would open the spigots on domestic energy, meaning no capricious regulatory roadblocks to fracking for oil and natural gas as well as to mining coal (where he will re-visit the Obama administrations regulatory roadblocks). He will rapidly grant permits to the Keystone pipeline and similar projects as they come along. \u00a0He will not impose moratoriums on offshore drilling (as occurred for a year in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP platform blew up). \u00a0He will not fund ideologically driven alternative energy projects like Solyndra or claim that wind and solar are viable alternatives to fossil fuels, and he will not build energy policy around such a claim. \u00a0A recent Manhattan Institute study found that North America could be energy independent within less than a decade, some say within the coming presidential term. He would do everything in the federal government\u2019s power to ensure that happens. \u00a0On all these particulars, President Obama would do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Job growth<\/strong>: \u00a0More than anything else, job growth means small business growth. \u00a0President Romney will push Congress for renewal of the Bush tax rates (thereby cutting the tax rates small businesses pay) and then push again to lower them. \u00a0He will review all Obama era regulations of business and eliminate or recast those that impeded business growth. \u00a0This means he will not allow doubling of the capital gains tax rate, which is what President Obama\u2019s thirty-percent minimum tax would do. \u00a0He will undo Obamacare by state waivers, regulatory scrutiny and, as quickly as he can push it through Congress, legislation. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Federal discretionary spending and debt<\/strong>: \u00a0President Romney will eliminate programs and agencies (he has said that it is not enough to reduce programs and their bureaucracies; you have to zero them out, or they just grow back). \u00a0He will work with Congress to cut discretionary spending by five percent in his term, if achieved the first cut in that category since the Reagan presidency. His default position on all domestic choices between growing and cutting spending will be to cut. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Social Security and Medicare<\/strong>: \u00a0He will push for reforms that make these programs solvent. \u00a0Everything will be on the table \u2013 the higher retirement age and means testing as well as personal empowerment options, such as private accounts. \u00a0His top priority will be to ensure that for the next generation the guarantees these programs represent are real, not empty, while current retirees keep the programs in their current form (without reform, these programs may not remain viable through the lifespans of the already retired or about to retire). \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Global trade<\/strong>: \u00a0After small business growth, growth in global trade is the other major driver of job growth in America. \u00a0President Romney will open trade talks on a bilateral (country-by-county free trade agreements) and multilateral (a new round of talks) basis, which is what his pledge to seek from Congress Trade Promotion Authority means. \u00a0The current administration has initiated no \u2013 zero \u2013 trade opening talks during its term, the first administration since the end of World War II to fail to lead the world in trade-opening initiatives. \u00a0Meanwhile China has negotiated nearly two dozen. \u00a0Regarding China, before receiving Trade Promotion Authority, President Romney will open by executive action trade talks with China, which is what labeling the government of the world\u2019s second largest economy a \u201ccurrency manipulator\u201d empowers the president to do. \u00a0\u00a0On trade in general, his default position in approaching every decision will be to move assertively to open trade further. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>On religious liberty<\/strong>: \u00a0President Romney will end the use of federal law and regulation in health care and other fields to squash the freedom of Catholics, evangelicals and other Americans of faith to practice their faith in their lives. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>On life before delivery and on traditional marriage<\/strong>: \u00a0President Romney will do all a president can do to protect both. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>On rule of law<\/strong>: President Romney will respect the separation of powers and both the Constitutional and legislative limits on the power of the executive branch, including in the writing and enforcement of regulations. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>On the Supreme Court<\/strong>: President Romney will appoint justices like Scalia, Thomas and Alito, not Kagan and Sotomayor. President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>On foreign policy and national security<\/strong>: President Romney will rebuild our Navy, protect our borders, stand with our allies and approach would-be adversaries with firmness and no reservations or apologies about standing for American national interests \u2014 peace and security through strength. \u00a0President Obama will do the opposite.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><strong>Taken together<\/strong>: President Romney stands for a limited and solvent U.S. government, bounded by the whole Constitution, for an entrepreneurially vibrant American economy fully engaged in the international economy and for renewing American leadership on the global stage. \u00a0President Obama stands for the opposite.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\"><br \/>\nFew elections in American history have presented such a contrast. \u00a0Few have offered such different futures for the nation. The choice for tomorrow will define our national life for decades of tomorrows.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the great failures of the mainstream media in this campaign has been to claim that neither candidate has laid out an agenda. \u00a0Both have been as clear as candidates can be about their plans for the nation in the next four years. \u00a0On this, the day before Election Day, let\u2019s review the particulars: Energy: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[42,52,77,50,12,55],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicalcommentary-campaign-2012","tag-2012-election","tag-campaign","tag-election-2012","tag-gop","tag-hugh-hewitt","tag-romney"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1426,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarkjudge.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}