My prediction: A financial storm consisting of a mixture of commercial mortgage failures, resetting Alt-A mortgages, derivative meltdowns, rising energy costs, insolvent banks, overreaching Democrat tax policies, inflation and a continued Dow slide toward 6000 will enrage the American people. They will start the "de-Democratization" process by electing 30 Republicans and Independents to the House and at least 5 Republicans to the Senate. Obama will campaign furiously for his agenda with a "stay the course I have set" and "blame Bush" message. Americans will have already started to realized the monstrous error they made in Obama's election, but it will take until 2011 for the general consensus to be that he is an incompetent and a hard-line Socialist. He will be openly mocked and hated by everyday Americans and lose in a landslide to whoever runs against him in 2012.
He will be branded as the Herbert Hoover of the 21st century by historians.
Wishful thinking, Dr. Because the Republicans didn’t plan for succession, we will be living in a one-party system for years to come. The majority of the American electorate will be bought and paid for in 2 years....even more than they are now. The Republic is lost, and we have entered a socialist democracy era. Worse yet, “the one” will prevail for a second term, and only after that will he be unmasked....but, by then it will be too late.
How much more could/would Americans expect the government too do? Hell, the government is already at a bankruptcy break speed in putting this country into 3d world status now. Do Americans expect us to get there faster? Don't forget, along with many of the things mentioned in the first couple of posts here, that the illegals getting all benefits is going to be a massive dollar drain. Free health care, give away programs for illegals is going to cost billions. Billions we simply do not have any more.