>Chris,
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>>>Are you suggesting that the Democrat Congress would have passed a balanced budget if it had been submitted? Get real. :-)
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>>No, do not think it, did not say it, did not even come close to implying it. Where did you get that? Please, you get real :-).
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>It's the most likely reason that he did not propose it.

I completely disagree. I don't know of any President coming into office with a clearer mandate, both in 1980 and 1984. He could have rammed a balanced budget down Congress's throat, and they would have said thank you sir, may I have another < g >.