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westerebus

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64. As odd as it seems.
Wed Nov 7, 2012, 07:43 PM
Nov 2012

Ronny Raygun came in on the middle part of a pretty good recession with promises of a turn around and no new taxes in his first term, the parallels are just there for the gleaning, soothsaying and interpretation of what we may see from the current resident of the Whitehouse going into his second term.

Given all things being equal with the split in Congress, a less than enthusiastic re-election, popular vote vice electoral college gamesmanship, current hot wars aka the middle east uprisings, a fair part of the global economy still bogged down, and such and so forth; what came from the second term of Saint Ron the beloved light upon yonder city's hilltop were a slew of taxes and a sparse amount of regulation.

Least of all, the second term brings its own bit of drama in the impeachment zone of full court politics.

The intersection of what if and what happen the last go round might be grist for the mill.

Up to you.

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