AUGUST 30 / What would President Obama do in a second term?

HE CERTAINLY won't tell you.

Kimberly Strassel does . . . 

. . . in this must-read column: "The Silent Second-Term Agenda," Wall Street Journal," August 23, 2012. A sampler:

Higher taxes. Greater spending. No real changes for Social Security or Medicare. Climate change legislation. Congressional gridlock. "[Fine]-tuning the regulatory apparatus he has designed specifically to go around Congress." Union dominance over employers. More Solyndras. More executive orders to do things Congress refuses to do. The construction of a statist bureaucracy that will "keep the rules going past an Obama administration." Leftist Supreme Court appointments. No leadership on free trade. No restoration of America's influence in overseas. A greater risk of a nuclear-armed Iran.

None of this is hyperbole. Mr. Obama is open about his tax aims, is proud of his spending and has never apologized for his regulatory ambitions. Despite a shellacking in the midterms, he moved left, and a November victory will reinforce his sense that he was correct to do so.

While Democrats will take careful pains in coming convention weeks to avoid outlining the president's intentions, they are sitting in plain sight. The real choice this fall will between Mitt Romney's reform agenda and a Supersized Obama. No wonder the Democrats are keeping mum.