The first step towards the realization of these scenarios already happened: the election of Obama.
As opposed to what, McCain?
I got news for you: the current GOP administration increased our unfunded liabilities with Part D Medicare, more spending on more useless crap (billions for nonsense like AIDS in Africa) than we saw out of any POTUS before.
McCain has his lips firmly affixed to the posteriors of the DC press corps - and would have been only moreso if he had been elected.
Given the two choices we had in this election, here’s a newsflash for you: you were going to get screwed, either way you look at it. The only difference was that one of the two was promising to buy you dinner first. Just promising.
There wasn’t even evidence that he had actually made reservations.
One perfect storm after another comes for 0bama.
The only thing that can stop him now is the (left wing) Washington Bureaucracy.