When the Gipper came to the UK - Reagan Era

Telegraph: Reports on the song and dance that it took to arrange the visit to the UK of then US President Ronald Reagan in 1982. 

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This is an excellent article but also fun folks, it shows how Diplomats get their knickers in a twist over all matter of things, before the new year this is fun read folks.    The President must have been popular with the Queen, as they both rode, and later after leaving office the President was given a knighthood, also when the Queen visited the US after the Reagan Era the Reagan's were invented on board the Queen's Ship for tea.    In all President Reagan was a great ally of the UK and of Lady Thatcher, they helped bring down the USSR. 

The Fiscal Deal and the Obama 2nd Term

Guardian: Reports the following from inside the D.C Beltway, " Senior senators say they believe a deal can be reached as US markets nervously await news from 3pm Washington meeting ".

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The Republicans are going to CAVE folks, the elite media has been running this narrative for weeks, any deal will be seen as a victory for Obama, and in many respects it will be real, the Oval will have forced the Republicans to agree to tax hikes, the same mistake that Bush 41 did in the 1990s.   The Democrats might say the will cut welfare but they never do, that is the base of the Democratic Party, the need people to be poor and afraid.    They need to make the impression that its the fault of the rich, why else would anyone vote for a Democrat or Labour politician.    The Democrats will spend the US in to a former Empire, the same fate of Rome and British Empires, when the money is gone your power is gone.   The US voter can not say they were not told, they are not even sleep walking in to being a lesser power, they are running to such a fate, what would the Gipper say of present day America. 

POTUS and the Fiscal Cliff

BBC News: Reports that President Obama is meeting Congressional Leaders at the White House at 8pm tonight in attempt to cut a deal before the US goes over the fiscal cliff. 

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The Republicans should hold the line, NO TAX HIKES on any Americans, and that should the Oval force the issue the Republicans will block the entire Obama Agenda on the Hill next year, NOTHING get through.   The Obama 2nd term would be over before it starts, all 2nd Term Presidents want a legacy, Obama only has  healthcare, or ObamaCare and he cant count that it wont be repelled by Republicans after 2016.   Thus the Oval should be treated to a Chicago lesson, if you overreach you get bounced hard by the other side.   Republicans hold the line, if the US goes over the cliff because of the Oval make the Oval pay in 2013, even further tax cuts not hikes, time to play hard ball folks.