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If Obama wins, what would he do in a second term?
Washington Post ^ | May 4, 2012 | Ezra Klein

Posted on 05/04/2012 8:09:31 PM PDT by Innovative

"In a second term," Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Obama "would be unrestrained by the demands of reelection."

...His only specific prediction was that Obama would "remake" the Supreme Court.

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At the end of 2012, we'll face what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke calls "the fiscal cliff": The Bush tax cuts are set to expire, the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts initiated when the deficit "supercommittee" failed to reach a deal are set to begin, we're expected to hit the debt ceiling again, and many other programs and tax credits will come up for renewal.

Around the Hill, they refer to this as "taxmageddon."

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Beyond the deficit, Obama's advisers see two big unfinished pieces of business from the first term: climate change and immigration reform.

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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; immigration; obama; supremecourt; taxes
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To: Tau Food

Will we at least be allowed to choose the color of our mandatory magic underwear?


41 posted on 05/04/2012 9:12:28 PM PDT by JDoutrider (Impeach! Incarcerate! Deport!)
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To: steel_resolve

We may be a minority, but we are of sufficient size to render Romney “insignificant” following his defeat. Hopefully, we can then reunite.

If you think Romney’s defeat would be a disaster, it is a preventable disaster. Just don’t nominate Romney.


42 posted on 05/04/2012 9:18:40 PM PDT by Tau Food
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To: napscoordinator

“You have to have principles at some point in your life.”
____________________________________________

In love and war, principles count for very little.
Just ask the British about that.
If you do not win the war, your principles will be worth zip, zero, nada.


43 posted on 05/04/2012 9:20:34 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: JDoutrider

Only if you’re a bishop.


44 posted on 05/04/2012 9:22:07 PM PDT by Tau Food
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To: Innovative
A second Obama term does in fact terrify me, and here's why, compliments of Ann Barnhardt:

The entire Obama regime propaganda on unemployment is driven by the fact that they keep REDUCING THE SIZE OF THE WORKFORCE. People can only collect unemployment benefits for 99 weeks. As soon as a person goes beyond 99 weeks, the Obama regime declares that person as NO LONGER IN THE WORKFORCE. There are people who have been unemployed for over two years who would work if they could find anything, but the rat bastards in the Obama regime and their propaganda arm, the media, just evaporate these people from existence, and they additionally reduce the size of the labor force arbitrarily, just so they can hit whatever predetermined number Valerie Jarret, David Axelrod, Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke decide it is going to be. This is what they are doing on every single unemployment report. It is all as fake as a Thai Rolex. Eventually, the Obama regime will go full-Marxist stupid, drop the labor force to 52 million and declare that Great Leader Obama has delivered a FULL EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY. And anyone who dares disagree will be shot in the back of the head with one of those 450 million rounds of .40 cal that the Obama regime just ordered.

45 posted on 05/04/2012 9:27:00 PM PDT by Marathoner (At least Ann Romney won't tell us what to eat.)
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To: steel_resolve; ClearCase_guy

“you’re insignificant minority.”

Wel then heck, you Romney voters have nothing to worry about.... it’s in the bag for ol’ Mittens.

Oh, please come back and tells again how insignificant we are..... after the election.

I would have voted for NEWT.


46 posted on 05/04/2012 9:34:47 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: Innovative

What will he do? He’ll do more cocaine.


47 posted on 05/04/2012 9:35:29 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Innovative




Looking for a new wife might be a start.

48 posted on 05/04/2012 9:37:52 PM PDT by quantim (Obama = #theoccupier on twitter.)
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To: Mark
“Note to self: a lot of Obama supporters out here.”

That or treasonous fools.

49 posted on 05/04/2012 9:38:13 PM PDT by BigCinBigD
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To: Tau Food

” If Obama wins, there will be four years of benign gridlock.”

Executive Orders sound familiar?


50 posted on 05/04/2012 9:42:28 PM PDT by Rembrandt (Part of the 52% who pay Federal taxes)
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To: Innovative

The end of America.


51 posted on 05/04/2012 9:47:22 PM PDT by Jay Santos CP ("Idiocracy"... It's no longer just a movie.)
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To: AlexW

Well, heck, I’ll repost my response from a couple of nights ago when all these “I’m-not-voting-for-Romney-even-if-it-means-Obama-wins” creatures were stomping about in full regalia:

“I get the impression of a bunch of adolescents who fancy themselves saving the day by dying at the Alamo, when the more appropriate analogy is Pickett’s Charge.”


52 posted on 05/04/2012 9:48:13 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Rembrandt

Yeah, he’ll still be able to order pizzas.


53 posted on 05/04/2012 9:51:50 PM PDT by Tau Food
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

precisely


54 posted on 05/04/2012 10:02:25 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Considering the evil way this country has been governed for a considerable length of time, a red one would be more appropriate. The worst defacement of the Stars and Stripes occurs when its enemies, our radical rulers fly it.


55 posted on 05/04/2012 10:10:26 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: Innovative

My question is can this country survive another 4 years with Janet Napolitano in charge of DHS and Eric Holder as Attorney General after their involvement in the “Fast and Furious.” Scandal


56 posted on 05/04/2012 10:15:14 PM PDT by moonshinner_09
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To: Gator113

I don’t like romney any more than most, I just fear obama to such an extent that my vote is abo. like am earlier poster said, let the adults take care of business while people like you work on polishing your righteousness.


57 posted on 05/04/2012 10:20:54 PM PDT by steel_resolve (Ships With Holes Will Sink And I Will Swim)
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To: Innovative

Supreme Court, taxes, immigration, climate change ... are all on Obama’s agenda.


They are all on Romney’s agenda too.. And from the looks of their records.. One will just continue the others work.

Thank you.. Have a nice day and no. I won’t vote for Romney.


58 posted on 05/04/2012 10:24:39 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Innovative

Right on target!!! The ranting, raving, anti-Romney Freepers remind me of the saying from “Amazing Grace” which goes something like this “I was blind and could not see”. Sad!!! Simple, for Freedom, Liberty, Opportunity, Individualism, our children, our children yet to come, our magnificent country, ANYBODY BUT OBAMA!!!


59 posted on 05/04/2012 10:28:43 PM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (My only objective is defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!)
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To: Innovative

As long as voters continue to play the game and vote for the “lesser of two evils”, we will continue to get what we’ve been getting—evil.


60 posted on 05/04/2012 10:29:21 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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