My Top 10 Political Predictions for 2010 (in no particular order):
- Not a single incumbent GOP US Senator or Congressman loses their seat in the mid-term elections. The same will not be true for the Democrats. Which will result in…
- Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives. But even if they somehow don’t, Nancy Pelosi will no longer be Speaker of the House.
- Texas Republicans will once again sweep every single state-wide election in 2010. Local Dems will find a way to spin Bill White’s loss as proof that Dems are making a comeback in Texas (despite Newsweek’s hopeful prediction to the contrary)
- Harry Reid will no longer be “Senator” Harry Reid, as he joins the unemployment line in Nevada.
- Kay Bailey Hutchison will have lied to Texans (again) and will not resign her US Senate seat after losing to Gov. Rick Perry in the March primary. (UPDATE: March 3, 2010 — Just a few days before getting trounced by Gov. Rick Perry, KBH announced that she would not immediately resign her Senate seat after the March 2 primary…which was the last of her resignation promises. Now she’s vaguely pointing to some date closer to November. Which she will obviously stretch out until at least 2012.)
- Michael Steele is forced out as Republican National Chairman.
- There will be an Islamic terrorist attack on US soil that kills Americans. Obama will finish his round of golf before calling it an “isolated, man-made disaster.”
- President Obama will be on TV more than Leave it to Beaver re-runs and Michelle Obama will continue to dress like a WWF wrestler.
- Israel attacks Iran. Obama condemns Israel, sides with the American-hating terrorists in Iran.
- Locally, I think Donna Howard (D) loses her 1-term stint as the Texas State Representative for District 48 to Dan Neil. No Obama coattails for this Liberal in an otherwise fairly conservative district.
A bold list of predictions.
I only disagree with #9. Not only because Israel doesn’t have the capability needed to attack Iran, and Iraq would never allow them the air space or refueling stop, but because I am predicting the current Mullahocracy regime will fall.
What it will be replaced by is unknown and a major concern, but the Mullahs will go down.
Agree, Iraq doesn’t even control their air space, we do! I don’t see Israel “sneaking” by our AWACS or ground radars.
No, and they wouldn’t even try without our and Iraq’s complete approval, which ain’t gonna happen with the Poseur In Chief we have now.
When Israel took out Sodom WhoseSane’s nuclear reactor, they landed with fumes in their fuel cells.
They would require refueling, and they don’t have that aerial capability. I doubt Saudi Arabia would be willing to assist, either.
Found this article interesting. Obviously I am one of the many who think she is joke, so I am interested in your perspective -
Sarah Palin will headline first-ever Tea Party Convention -
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2010/0106/Sarah-Palin-will-headline-first-ever-Tea-Party-Convention
I’ve been opposed to big name politicians — especially not-truly Conservative politicians co-opting the Tea Party movement.
Sarah Palin getting paid (allegedly( $100K to speak at a Tea Party convention means that it truly is no longer a grass roots movement and has been sullied.
And I’m a huge Palin fan, too.
While I never respected the Tea Partiers, you are absolutely, 100% correct. This is not a small angry minority. This is a VERY organized “movement” with lots of large financial backers.
You’re mostly wrong — the Tea Party movement was as purely grass roots a movement as there is.
It was not a highly organized nor funded movement. You are obviously confusing it with Lefty George Soros, ACORN, and SEIU organized and financed movements.
And what’s not to respect about average, every day citizens coming out on their own (not bussed in by SEIU and handed pre-printed professional signs) and airing their grievances with their government?
Does “power of the people, by the people, and for the people” really scare you that much?
Well, I cannot really believe that either side is grass roots. It could go either way with any and all political groups. It is not possible for any of us to say who is financed and who is not, because the other side will always say the opposite.
Why are you anonymous on this thread and Steven on the other?
Not sure, I just typed Steven in on here. My name is still on the other one.
Steve,
I’ve attended numerous Austin-area Tea Party events.
As one of the most prominent Conservative bloggers in the area, I would like to think that if there was an organized organizing going on…or any $$$ being forked out for support, endorsements, or coverage, that I would have been in on it.
I assure you, I wasn’t. I was there (were you?). It was as organic as it comes. Your view that it wasn’t comes from what? What you saw on MSNBC?
I only went to the first one in Houston to see what it was all about. The most entertaining part to me was to see the 1,000 or so people there, and then hear our idiot representative John Culberson tell the press there was 10,000.
http://www.desertconservative.com/2009/03/10/stop-democrat-spending/
2010 will see the US continue to lose its power to influewce world events in its favor, militarily or otherwise. Sadly, Obama has drowned in a deep tank of his predecessor’s Kool-Aid, and it appears we will soon be waging war on five separate international fronts.
It’s truly astounding to watch us — for a full decade — send fighter jets and drones and bombs and invading forces and teams of torturers and kidnappers to Muslim countries, or, as we were doing long before 9/11, to overthrow their governments, prop up their dictators, occupy what they perceive as holy land with our foreign troops, and arm Israel to the teeth, and then act surprised and confused when some of them want to attack us. In general, the U.S. only attacks countries with no capabilities to attack us back in the “homeland” — at least not with conventional forces. As a result, we have come to believe that any forms of violence we perpetrate on them over there is justifiable and natural, but the Laws of Humanity are instantly breached in the most egregious ways whenever they bring violence back to the U.S., aimed at Americans. It’s just impossible to listen to discussions grounded in this warped mentality without being astounded at how irrational it is. What do Americans think is going to happen if we continue to engage in this conduct, in this always-widening “war”?
So, Mohammed, did you enjoy Avatar?
lol … No 2 – I adore you
Kay Bailey Hutchison is a huge lying RINO. I bet she does back out of resigning.
Add Diana Maldonado, Democrat House District 52 to that list. Totally rode Barry’s coatails.
Donna Howard has been in office since March 2006 after winning the special election called due to
Todd Baxter’s resignation in November 2005. So technically, she is finishing out her second full term in office and will be running for her third.
I don’t agree with #2. I just can’t be that optimistic. I’m hoping you’re right, though.
Buck Up, Dianne.
Cook: Dems Could Lose The House.
Dems will get destroyed in the midterms. Political phenomenon called “backlash,” which has been happening the past 50 years or so.
Steve Schmidt, a senior member of Sen. John McCain’s presidential team, is quoted telling Palin’s foreign policy tutors: “You guys have a lot of work to do. She doesn’t know anything.”