Monday, November 07, 2005

[Question]

One Year From Today

But wait, before I go, two questions. The midterm elections are exactly one year out. Understanding that one year out is always a dangerous time to make predictions (it's alluringly close, and yet things almost always change dramatically), do you think:
that the Dems will take back either the House or Senate?

that the White House will have rebounded, or collapsed into such dire straights that the Dems are seriously contemplating impeachment?
(My guess: they're connected. If the Dems smell blood and the polls are looking good, they may think that getting back one chamber will give them the power to launch precedings against Bush. On the other hand, if the GOP beat back the challenge, Bush will stagger forward. My guess is that the GOP hangs on, rises from the corruption, and conducts one of the most vitriolic, sadistic, and overall cheap and sleazy midterm campaigns in history--just managing to hang onto power.)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yeah, we can definitely expect plenty of sleaze. I want to make pads of my political beliefs and just tear them off and hand them out to people rather than deal with trying to sit there and listen to the GOP's defense.

Jeff Alworth said...

It's possible that the Dems, so filled with bile and resentment, will this time take off their gloves. I think that would be catastrophic, but your anger is shared by almost everyone, so it wouldn't surprise me.