Republican rollback

23 September 2010 By James Pethokoukis

The party of no has revealed what it will say yes to. But a new Republican manifesto offers little more than undoing Obama s reforms, with vague talk of balanced budgets. Maybe that s smart politics. But America s longterm economic and fiscal woes call for bolder leadership.

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U.S. Republicans on Sept. 23 unveiled a campaign manifesto for the Nov. 2 elections in which they hope to gain control of the House of Representatives. The wideranging "Pledge to America" vows to slash spending and stop "jobkilling tax hikes."

The agenda proposes scaling back federal spending to 2008 levels, although with large exceptions, and ending government control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The document also calls for tougher border security, putting suspected terrorists on trial in military rather than civilian courts and repealing President Barack Obama's landmark and far from universally popular overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system.

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