1. In Iraq, those participating in the armed services and police force start taking up alliegance with the extremist factions in an effort to save their own lives which are in peril because they work with the Americans. (The extremists might even offer an amnesty program.)
2. Those who can’t distance themselves fast or far enough are murdered by the extremists.
3. Civilian morale sinks in Iraq and the situation starts unraveling slowly. As it becomes evident the US is going to bolt–or draw down–the country rapidly descends into chaos.
4. US troop morale is down. Volunteer re-enlistment levels in the US armed services drop.
5. Foreign partners become increasingly difficult to obtain as the rest of the world realizes the US can not be counted on. Soldiers are not offered. Intelligence sources dry up.
6. Syria and Iran come gunning for Israel, which is now strictly on its own.
7. There is a quickening and emboldening of Islamism throughout the world as moderate Muslims give in, realizing the US will never come to help them.
8. Kim Jong-Il again refuses to particpate in 6 party talks until the Dems give him enough bribe money to build his bombs.
9. Islamists become increasingly bold in their demands for ‘equal rights’ in the US. Many legal test cases and increasing dhimmitude by the MSM. Bin Laden never has to fire another shot. Over the next 15 years, he lets the lawyers haggle it out.
10. Appropriately enough, Nancy decides on pale yellow curtains.
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Apologies to all. I’m not in the best of moods right now.
I prefer to think optimistically myself: Bush is still president and I think it’s highly unlikely that there will be any sort of premature withdrawl as long as he is there. So, I think we’re okay for the next 2 years at least.
I think so too, but it depends on how much the world thinks it can trust Bush. Maybe it doesn’t feel much trust in America right now. There’s only one guy standing between them and the abyss.
Elections are evil.
The destructive belief that these (or any) votes are a means by which the will of the people is expressed through or mystically infused in the victors is the problem. You buy that, you buyâ€â€ask forâ€â€all of the above. And all of the opposite, in 2004. And all of something totally different, in 2008. Without judgment. You’ve surrendered.
Theoretically, I guess, in small enough individual races, it can be true that “the voters have sent a message,” but aggregated results of unrelated electionsâ€â€e.g., the D/R balances in congressâ€â€are random marginal phenomena. They don’t signify. They’re rhetorical magicians’ cabinets.
Most of these shitty things you’ve listed, if they happen (and most of them will) are thanks to the success of small-d democratic propagandaâ€â€effects of how the U.S. is viewed through the prism of a national referendum that never happenedâ€â€not results of how the American people have actually behaved, or of what they actually think. We don’t know what they did, or what they think. There’s only the puff of smoke.
We are not the government. Between Monday and Wednesday, no one changed. You have not disappeared and been replaced with Nancy Pelosi. Magic is not real. Don’t inhale.
(Yeah, I know it’s too late. It already was.)
Add to predictions:
No conservative judges appointed to Federal bench.
Global Warmtion taught in kindergarden.
Apologies to all. I’m not in the best of moods right now.
12 years of House and Senate control and the last 6+ years of the Presidency.
-And still could’nt even get a bagel right.
Fucking Duh.
The Democrats took the House and maybe the Senate, but I was under the impression that George Bush was still President.
Given that he has conducted the war in Iraq with minimal imput from, or deference to, Congress, what’s changed?
Stoke the dialectic!
Are you off your meds again?
I wonder if the motivation to defend our liberty against Islamofascism simply hasn’t been great enough to make the MSM propaganda machines seem really traitorous. In 1941 it only took a couple of thousand deaths to anger America; today it simply takes more deaths to convince the citizens of a fight’s worth and motivate the reolution to continnue it to victory. Without angry resolve, the nation has wimped out to LibDem propaganda.
We’ve become so used to death as a solution to problems, e.g., abortion and euthanasia, that there simply was not enough outrage over the deaths of merely 3,000 citizens to last more than a few years’ effort against a huge Islamofascist threat. We need much greater damage to realize our peril.
So let’s see, there were 2,400 Americans killed at Pearl Harbor in 1941. By my estimation, with 4% inflation compounded annually, it’ll take approximately 31,945 deaths all at once, on American soil, to activate the nation into genuiune, committed defense of its liberty.
Now all the terrorists have to do is decide which major city in which to set off the dirty bomb.
It looks like we are finished in Iraq and probably Afghanistan. The Democratic House majority will simply not fund the miliary, intelligence, or aid budgets needed. They can’t stop Bush from issuing military orders directly, but without funds the WOT stops.
Blair is out in Britain very soon and with him our last effective support overseas.
Whence Israel? See above.
Our local supporters in Iraq and Afghanistan are going to die.
Close to home, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, can now block any use of Yucca Mountain for storing nuclear waste. And he can also block any other site. This kills the revival of nuclear. Every major state but Texas is controlled by nuclear opponents.
Boom times for wind and solar – they were booming before anyway. Biotech and medical research will get unlimited money – this will slow down progress but not stop it. Ethanol and biofuels will continue to be subsidized roughly as is.
No Federal judges will be confirmed until Bush leaves office. And he better not need any cabinet officers – they won’t be confirmed either. The payback is going to be brutal.
No Child Left Behind is dead. A new federal bill will end national standards and neuter the department of education but increase federal spending sent directly to states. The bill will make life much tougher for private schools and home schoolers. Bush will sign it; he really has no core beliefs on domestic policy.
Border Fence? “what Border Fence?”, “I don’t see no stinking Border Fence!” Easy call, Demos don’t want one and Bush doesn’t want one, it won’t be funded. Border security will revert to nada but not a single agent will be laid off.
Taxes will rise – most by invisible means since that will be less honest than increasing the income tax rates. But a nice carbon tax on airplane fares is almost certain. Again Bush signs.
NK and Iran will forget what they said last week about being nice. Or had they forgotten already?
Some good news. The idiot siblings (and that is my polite version), Frist and Hastert, return to the political obscurity they so richly deserve. (Frist can return to surgery and improve both politics and medicine).
John Edwards seems screwed – he holds no office and his 2008 rivals each won big yesterday. The GOP has no candidates for 2008 and it wouldn’t matter.
“Predictions” are about the future. These are observations. Don’t worry, we’ll fix everything, we always do. Now, run off and play.
Sorry other david, y’all simply break everything that we fixed, and break worse what was already broken.
Thanks. I needed a loud, uproarious, can’t-catch-my-breath, rolling on the floor laugh today.
david: Savor the moment.
And leave the somber business of restoring American socialism, hating middle class (and Middlewestern) white folks, and anti-christian bigotry to our most mendacious, intolerant, and chickenshit sitepest.
Cool. ‘Cause I needed a break.
Uh… most of this stuff has already happend under Bush and the Repubes. Talk about late historical revisionism.
Would any of you cry babies like some cheese with that whine?
‘Elections are evil’? Yeah, they had been running that way for awhile up until yesterday.
I hate to point it out to you wingnuts, but if Osama bin Ladin gave up jihad and tried to settle his issues with us in court, we would have won the war on terror!
Isn’t most of this list what Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress has accomplished over the past 3 to 6 years?
Iraqi officials aligning themselves with extremist factions? The country rapidly descending into chaos?
US troop morale low?
Allies hard to find?
You folks are beautiful!
Man. You guys aren’t even trying anymore, are you?
And by “trying” I meant pretending. And by “meant” I mean “I should probably proofread myself a little better before bringing the snark.”
The point still stands. Doesn’t take much to jettison 230 years of principle, does it? I mean, we were right the hell down and angry and all of the above in 2000, 2002 and especially 2004. We bitched, moaned, complained, looked for conspiracy, woed-is-us’ed, the whole nine yards, just like you all are doing. I get that, I really do.
What I don’t get is calling the basis of this whole American Experiment “evil.”
Shorter Goldstein:
Remember when I said that the liberals are traitors for sapping America’s resolve? Now it’s MY turn to do the sapping!
does ahem even follow the news? most of this stuff already happened! iraqi armed forces taking part in sectarian violence? that started a year ago!
maybe the democrats win in congress will finally get the right to begin following what’s really happening in the world, and not just reading news from sites designed to only report progress.
Uh, gordo?
You do realize this is not my post, right? Or did the sadly, no folks just wind you up and set you off half-COCKED again?
Jesus. What a tool.
Jeff–
No, I hadn’t realized that. Thanks for telling me. Why are you letting someone who wants to sap America’s morale post on your blog?