How the Next 4 Years Will Play out

[Karmadillo]

http://www.ianwelsh.net/how-the-next-4-years-will-play-out

How the Next 4 Years Will Play out
2010 October 24

2010 – Republicans take control of the House. The Senate remains in Democratic hands, but the margin is reduced.

2011 – Bush’s tax cuts are extended. Social Security is slashed. This is done at Obama’s behest, so that Dems get blamed for it.

2012 – The Republicans take the Senate (this is virtually guaranteed, 2012′s geography is awful for Dems). They retain the House. They probably take the Presidency.

2013 – in charge of the judiciary, Congress and the Presidency, and with hard right crazies as a substantial caucus, the Republicans finally repeal the new deal. SS is turned into privatized accounts (older folks will keep most of what they have), Medicare is slashed going forward, regulatory agencies like the EPA are cut to the bone, education is turned over to the private sector as the Feds withdraw virtually all support for public schools and move to a voucher system. A new bubble (the last one) is inflated at all costs by Bernanke. Massive slashing of the federal civil service occurs, programs which are not slashed are transferred down to the States, where corruption is easier.

2014 – President Teabag starts a war somewhere to keep pump up the military Keynesianism. Said war is used as an excuse to even further curtail civil liberties.

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[leftstreet]

1. This shit is going to happen no matter which party has the majority

The Catfood Commission is happening under the Democrats

as is school privatization

War? LOL military contractors aren't exactly starving

:shrug:

[adigal]

2. I hope you are wrong

I can't see Americans sitting still while SS is cut and Granny sitting still when her Medicare is cut. I think that will wake my fellow Americans up to the greed of the right wing. I really think they have to overreach and do something like one of these drastic actions to wake the lazy-ass Americans up off the couch and their Jersey Shore and Dancing with the Stars nonsense.

[TheWraith]

3. You know what I hate about the blogosphere?

It makes everyone think that they're an expert on something, when in fact usually they're just a loudmouth.

[young but wise]

6. +1

[Javaman]

4. 2015...

the US/world economy completely collapses due to repuke/tea ballers stupidity

2016 Dems retake the majority in both houses and a Dem is reelected pres. repubs and tea bagging idiots are sent to the wilderness for the next 20 years.

2017-2025 the US rebuilds itself as a green energy nation as oil prices skyrocket and global warming goes full tilt.

[flvegan]

5. Can someone ask that author for this week's Powerball numbers?

[county worker]

7. Somewhere in the back of my mind I have a thought that influential people we see the inevitable

outcome if the government is reduced to teabag proportions and a backlash completely destroys the conservative movement.