President Obama

[dino]

I've got the exact opposite prediction. The left has the White House, the Senate AND the House of Representatives. They'll be able to get almost anything through. As a result, we'll bail out every failing private sector industry, they'll socialize everything not nailed to a desk, and taxes will go up to pay for it all. In the end, the economy will be worse off, President Obama will look like Jimmy Carter 2.0 and he'll be a one and done President.

Then, in 2012, a true Reagan-inspired Conservative will come along and start to fix it all.

The danger the Democrats have put themselves in is that they've got no one to blame when all of this fails. They're at the big kids' table now. Every time something fails, or worsens the situation it was designed to repair, they'll get more and more desperate, and they'll panic.

I do think he could take the same path as Carter but the one thing Obama has going for him is that the democrats (and a good chunk of the media for that matter) have so snowballed the public in believing that the situation we are currently in is only the fault of bush and the republicans and they will continue to shed the blame for everything. If they are able to keep up this media barrage that they were able to "keep us from sinking further" then he may get a second term.