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Editor says, what if the tied result of the 2012 election was thrown into the electoral college? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the November 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 2013, on this day of high drama, Government workers were sent home by the forty-fifth US President Willard ("Mitt") Romney. An article from the Deadlocked 2012 Election thread.
Deadlocked Election prevents America going over Fiscal Cliff 3Contrary to emotionally charged (indeed, factually incorrect) headlines such as "Romney to City - Drop Dead!" and "Let Washington go bankrupt!" the Federal Shutdown was in fact a carefully considered scenario that had been extensively "war-gamed" by Romney aides even before the deadlocked election.
The inauguration of Romney-Biden, and subsequent appointment of Paul Ryan as US Secretary of the Treasury had raised a glimmer of hope that a bipartisan agreement might possibly be reached. But instead, Congress had totally gridlocked, and with the Federal Government headed for shutdown, Romney had played the call he had been holding to his chest all long by calling their bluff and sending workers home.
Too late, Congressional Leaders had buckled, but the problem was they could not assemble in the capital to reach a new agreement with the Romney White House because the whole of Washington was locked after the employees have been sent home.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Deadlock 2012 Source: Wikipedia Labels: Mitt Romney, Joe Biden, Paul Ryan, Presidency, America. Editor says, in this article was explore a deadlocked election scenario described by Reuters. We have repurposed content from that article and also ideas received [1] with thanks from Scott Palter.
~ Truth is stranger than even OUR fiction, once again. About a year ago, we came so close to a Government Shutdown that the Federal workers were gettng instructions on Friday....but Congress managed over the weekend to delay the crisis.
~ Truth or fiction, sometimes it seems the U.S. still totters too close to making life imitate art, as could be the case here. Things have been creepy along economic lines since 9/11.
~ Once again, this isn't alternate history---yet.
~ With Romney's experience of breaking up corporations and selling 'em off, I wonder how he'd break up the US to sell it off. Think anybody would buy it?
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