[kabar]

Agree with your analysis on pre and post crash. The welfare state is unsustainable and its collapse is inevitable. Unfortunately, it could take a long time to happen as long as the Dems can tax and spend and eviscerate the military--guns versus butter. In the meantime, the rapidily changing demographics of this country fueled by immigration and minority birthrates will make the Dems the permanent majority party at the federal level.

I really see no way the Reps win in 2016 regardless of how Obama performs in office. Hillary will be the next President barring some health issue or something else preventing a run. She is next in line and Obama will support her. Bill's enthusiastic support on the campaign trail was just building up the chips for an Obama endorsement in 2016.

[Bernard]

Can't agree on Hillary in 2016; she has been caught napping in public again, this time by herself. As she gets older and more vulnerable, it's less likely that the other ethnic groups who think they make the difference for the Dems are going to wait their turn, whenever that night be.