Posted on 01/08/2015 10:17:27 AM PST by PROCON
Looking into his crystal ball, Karl Rove, the veteran Republican strategist and prognosticator, offered a salvo of political, cultural and sports predictions for 2015 in his first Wall Street Journal column of the year.
Here are some of the highlights:
Presidential Politics: Neither Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren nor Vice President Joe Biden will seek the Democratic presidential nomination. Hillary Clinton will run for president.
The 2015 Ames Straw Poll will be canceled in deference to the "credibility" of the 2016 Iowa caucus.
Courts: There will be a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices will decide that the Affordable Care Act doesn't permit subsidies in states that don't have their own exchanges. And the president's executive actions on immigration will be ruled unconstitutional.
Congress: The House and Senate will move forward with a surge of bipartisan legislation. Congress will pass a budget on time for the next fiscal year. Republicans will spend more on the military though less time at home. A conservative vision for 2016 will take shape on issues such as entitlement and tax reform.
Barack Obama: The president will threaten to veto more and more legislation. He will alienate Democrats on Capitol Hill because of his obstructionism. He will be held responsible by voters for any stalemate. Obama will play "lots more golf."
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No Karl, it will set box-office records but Hollyweird will ignore it.
Prediction — the Chamber of Commerce will give Rove tens of millions of dollars to support RINOs and to go on TV to slam conservatives and the Tea Party.
Who elected Karl Rove to anything?
I hope he's right. Hillary is very defeatable.
Courts: There will be a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices will decide that the Affordable Care Act doesn't permit subsidies in states that don't have their own exchanges. And the president's executive actions on immigration will be ruled unconstitutional.
I hope that vacancy happens soon. The old biddy is dead enough now. She should make it official and get the hell off the court.
I think he’s wrong on every count.
Karl did!!! DUH...hehehe
Bipartisanship. That means the RINO's will go along with the democrats and business as usual will prevail.
Yup, Oregon will win the National Championship.
I don’t know who will run for president, but I’m sure Hillary Rodham Clinton will not.
Prediction — the Chamber of Commerce will give Rove tens of millions of dollars to support RINOs and to go on TV to slam conservatives and the Tea Party.
Criswell was more accurate than Rove.
” Prediction — the Chamber of Commerce will give Rove tens of millions of dollars to support RINOs and to go on TV to slam conservatives and the Tea Party.”
W I N N E R
Criswell Predicts! I knew there was somebody he reminded me of.
"Remember, my friends, future events such as these will happen in the future." Who can argue with that?
They didn’t. That’s why he had to take the job making predictions....
Pray for her make it to 2017 so President Cruz can nominate her successor.
At least she's an American and I think we can agree that she's not exactly an energetic socialist. Just let her mark a couple more year's time, and then retire.
The more out of touch he gets, the more the media pays attention to him.
Karl Rove will not STFU.
But not by any Republican chosen by the Gope. And the Gope will choose the Republican Nominee, Probably Bush, minimally possibly Romney. Christie is not in the running however hard he may be running; he has not paid his dues to the Party. Boehner and McConnell with advise and direction from the Imperial Party will choose have chosen the 2016 Republican Nominee, the guy who will be Honored by his Party and who will then take an election Dive.
When does this has-been closet liberal predict he will shut his own pie hole?
Agreed. It has been reported in Newsweek that because of the way the Senate filibuster rules were crafted, the present administration might not be able to appoint someone that she would regard as a worthy liberal successor.
Who do you think President Obama could appoint at this very day, given the boundaries that we have? If I resign any time this year, he could not successfully appoint anyone I would like to see in the court. [The Senate Republicans] took off the filibuster for lower federal court appointments, but it remains for this court. So anybody who thinks that if I step down, Obama could appoint someone like me, they’re misguided. As long as I can do the job full steam…. I think I’ll recognize when the time comes that I can’t any longer. But now I can.
http://www.newsweek.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg-explains-why-she-wont-retire-272876
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