An Illusory Presidency of Mitt Romney would be a Titanic ( of Fantasies ) to be sunk by an iceberg called "Tea Party" and Republican Super Bigots in Congress - These extremist ideologues would cause a horrible paralysis of U. S. Government and its services

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New Republic, Norman Ornstein : The Extremist Conservatives and the unrealistic Paul Ryan budget would force Mitt Romney to cut lots of Social Spending, Social Services, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Health Services, and even fundamental services that are non military like Air Traffic Control, it will kill the Coast Guard, transportation, energy programs, NIH, CDC, Customs, FBI, NASA, and so on. None are possible with the stringent conditions of Crazy Republicans and their budget cuts.

The New Republic

The Doomed Marriage Between Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans

April 19, 2012

By Norman Ornstein

Norman Ornstein is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a weekly columnist at Roll Call.

The Doomed Marriage Between Mitt Romney and Congressional Republicans
 
Some excerpts :

Start with the budget designed by Representative Paul Ryan, which House Republicans passed on a party line vote, and which Romney warmly endorsed. While that endorsement may have won Romney some credibility among conservatives, it also promises to tie his hands considerably if he wins the election. To take one example: The Ryan budget says that it will reduce all discretionary spending, domestic and defense, to 3.75 percent of GDP by 2050, less than half of what it is today; but Romney has also pledged to put an ironclad 4 percent of GDP floor under defense spending alone. Taken together, then, a Romney administration would be committed to abandoning the entirety of non-military government. No air traffic control, no Coast Guard, no transportation, energy program, NIH, CDC, Customs, FBI, NASA, and so on. None.

Of course, that is 2050, decades off. But the Ryan budget also poses headaches for Romney right now. It jettisons the bipartisan agreement reached last year to avert default, offering sharply lower discretionary domestic spending numbers for next year’s budget. That means there’s a looming confrontation between the House and the Senate over their respective spending bills, which could result in a government shutdown when the new fiscal year begins on October 1—less than five weeks before the election. For House Republicans, mostly from safe seats dominated by a feisty conservative base happy to have a confrontation, that is just fine. For Romney, not so much.

In the meantime, the Ryan budget numbers have been translated into a dozen specific spending ceilings for Appropriations subcommittees. That means the vague promises of cutbacks are in the process of becoming concrete proposals for cuts in specific programs. To pick an example, we already know that the House will propose a drastic cutback in funding for food stamps. At a time of high unemployment, that will allow President Obama to conveniently portray not just the GOP, but Romney personally, as bent on taking food out of the mouths of poor children for the purpose of protecting tax breaks for billionaires. The food stamp cut will be matched or exceeded in coming months by other even less popular cutbacks, in health research, farm subsidies, food safety, and a host of popular programs.

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