I don't think the economy will improve a little due to the natural business cycle, at all. The Democrats have done so much damage to the natural forces of the free market, that I doubt seriously if our economy will come out of the tail spin until MAJOR revocations and repeals of their horrendous legislation occurs.
Republicans are going to have their work cut out for them to repeal, or defund everything they can before our whole economy implodes. It's going to be all they can do to keep the walls from crumbling.
While they're doing all this, Obama will be acting as the primary Democrat Opposition Force, and using every power of the Executive to foil everything the Republican majority tries to do.
Don't forget, Obama is NOT Bill Clinton, or any other Democrat you care to compare him to. The standard model doesn't fit him, because frankly, he's not a politician. He's a committed Marxist ideologue, driven by an insatiable desire to implement every leftist wet dream that's ever been dreamt.
He is NOT going to move to the center, as Bill Clinton did. He will NOT play politics as usual, because in his twisted world, he's above all that. He's got a narcissistic personality disorder, with delusions of grandeur. He is The One, the Messiah, and he doesn't brook opposition to his grandiose Olympian plans by mere mortals.
If you want to play the game correctly against Obama, you need to throw out everything you know about American politics and look to history to find successful methods for dealing with someone like him.
Little hint: none of the successful methods involve political solutions.
That being said, Obama can, and most likely will be voted out of office in 2012. His approval rating has been in negative territory for a solid year, and there's little chance that it will ever return to positive territory again. He's losing Independents and Democrats in droves. He and his administration are so inept and incompetent, that it's highly unlikely that he'll achieve any real wins from this point on. Public perception of the man will follow his real performance, which will of course, be dreadful.
Oh, he may still get some Socialist goodies from Congress, but I'm talking about public relations victories that raise his approval rating amongst the voters. You've likely seen the last of that. The man is incapable of leading, and it's transparent. He's little more than a campaigner and cheerleader. A spokesman for radical liberalism. Nothing more. He's not going to do a single thing to restore anyone's trust or confidence in him. He doesn't have what it takes to do that because he's a complete phony.
Meanwhile, his minions in Congress are going to do everything they can to pass as much of the rest of his Marxist agenda while they still can. ALL of it is destructive to our economy, our security, and our liberties. NONE of it will endear Obama and the Democrats to the electorate, once the effects begin being felt.
By the end of 2011, he'll likely be in bunker mode, holed up in the White House, refusing to give press conferences, and throwing advisor after advisor under the bus. His delusional dictatorship is already coming unraveled, and the foundations of his support are badly cracking. By this time next year, he'll be lucky if he isn't facing impeachment and treason charges.
