[okie01]

In 2016 they will be running a new non-incumbent candidate who is a mere mortal that they are not as emotionally invested in, and it will be unlikely to be a better scenario for Democrats than it was this year.

Three problems with your forecast:

1. By 2016, Obamacare will be in full flower. As such, it will no longer be a candidate for repeal, but part of the political landscape.

2. The Democrat Senate and the demoralized GOP House will likely pass some form of amnesty in 2013. Thus, by 2016, the electorate will be awash in millions of freshly-minted Democrat voters.

3. We are also likely to have institutionalized a Cap & Trade Scheme plus all the accompanying EPA regulations. The economy will never be the same again.

It will be a Brave New World by 2016 -- one that is going to be hostile to most conservative ideas.

[dfwgator]

It’s going to be like Canada, where the “Conservatives” only run on a platform of running the socialist engine better than the Liberals.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“As such, it will no longer be a candidate for repeal, but part of the political landscape.”

This is my huge worry over this loss. It’s aggravating generally, but this seals our coffins for medical care in the future.

Even 100% Repub Congress in 2014 is too late - it’s already started, and politicos never have the gumption to take on the smallest largesse from any law.

Heavens we should deconstruct new government departments and put bureaucrat/stiffs out of work!

We are doomed.