Prediction 1: Both houses of the 212th Congress will be controlled by Republicans. The first order of business will be to swear in the new members and to organize the Congress. I predict that by January 7, 2011 the 212th Congress will have passed a bill to extend the Bush-era tax cuts by at least two years. I predict that by noon on Monday, January 10, 2011 Obama will have vetoed that bill.
Prediction 2 to N: Every other bill the Republican Congress will pass such as recinding Obamacara, returning the unspent stimulus funds to the general fund, etc., will all be vetoed by Obama.
Prediction N+1: The American people will be come so enraged that Democrats who refuse to override Obama’s vetoes will spend the next two years in Washington preparing for retirement.
Surely the lame duck session will include a few democrats who are still Americans first, pray, enough to kill the institutionalizing of socialism. It may take a decade to undo the wave of the Obama/Pelosi administration doings of only 24 months.
It is reported that republican leadership behind several closed door meetings, including retiring Senator Judd Gregg I believe, are marginalizing repeal efforts in favor of “changes” in Obama Care. The Maine twins, McCain & Graham, and Mercowski /sp/ will surely have their curls trimmed a bit by the incoming conservative senators, and what if we COULD turn a Leiberman and one other?