[bert]

There is another, a more likely possibility. The Woodward piece will be evidence that the successor was set up to fail by an administration that bluffed it’s way through the last year(s).

Any body who knows anything knows the next two years are going to be very difficult for the next president. The one who knows this best is the one who has no clue as to how to solve the problems........ The One himself

[vanilla swirl]

“Any body who knows anything knows the next two years are going to be very difficult for the next president.”

Another reason I’m not so hot to elect Mittens.
There will be a collapse sooner or later, whoever is in office will be blamed. Of course if it happens to Obama it will be Bush’s fault.

[Sgt_Schultze]

What he does know, and what he does plan to do is more of the same ... spending $400,000+ per ($28,000 per year) job “saved” or created.

[StAnDeliver]

"The Woodward piece will be evidence that the successor was set up to fail by an administration that bluffed it’s way through the last year(s). Any body who knows anything knows the next two years are going to be very difficult for the next president."

It's either the fiscal cliff, or hyperinflation. Bobo could do the Zimbabwe Paper Shuffle all too well...

[tanknetter]

There is another, a more likely possibility. The Woodward piece will be evidence that the successor was set up to fail by an administration that bluffed it’s way through the last year(s).

Here's a scenario that's been on my mind that last couple/few days.

Obama loses in the November. The Dems retain the requisite number of seats in the US Senate to filibuster at whim. Mittens is largely helpless to do anything substantive to really fix the situation and the economic slide continues.

In 2014 the Dems retake both the Senate and House and the situation further snowballs.

Then in 2016 Obama, riding in on an "I told you so Tsunami", becomes the second President in US history to win a second but non-consecutive term (Grover Cleveland is the other) ... and is perfectly positioned to finish what he's been starting these past four years.