“With out real congressional leadership we would be better off being minority underdogs by a vote or two in both houses.”
I tend to agree. Enough votes to stop a lot of egregious Dhimmi legislation but minority status so that any effort by Obama to blame the Republicans for everything will ring rather hollow.
A bonus will be that there might be enough votes to dump Pelosi and Reid from their leadership positions.
Recent polls suggest that your scenario is exactly what will come to pass: maybe a 30 seat pickup in the House and 5-6 in the Senate.
Such a result will give the GOP its best chance to win back the WH in 2012.
That's been my prediction as well. I think estimates of a 50-60 seat takeover are overblown.