Rick Perry Unveils Reform Plan to ‘Uproot and Overhaul Washington’
As presidential plans go, this is about as bold and sweeping as it gets. The realist in me says that much of it is impossible to achieve. Get Congress to work part-time while cutting their salaries and staffs? The most dangerous place on earth tends to be the space between congresscritters and a camera, and many of them use their padded office budgets to reward friends and family. Changing the federal judiciary at such a fundamental level? Putting term limits on Supreme Court justices is so far outside the box that it’s a bit tough to get your head around.
But going big as this plan does might enable some of these reforms to be enacted, and they are good reforms. Some, such as the moratorium on regulations, can be done through the executive branch alone. Reforms of EPA and DHS are long overdue. It’s heartening to hear a presidential candidate propose it.
The Uproot and Overhaul plan is the third major policy that the Perry campaign has rolled out in recent weeks. It joins Cut, Balance and Grow and Energizing American Jobs and Security as some of the most sweeping and detailed plans any presidential candidate has ever put forward.
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