James (comment #3) said:
I’m still the optimist on this site – can’t help it. But it seems to me that Obama is the best thing to happen to the country since Jimmy Carter.

I’m not quite so optimistic.

If history shows us anything, then it’s apparent that we’ve just had irreparable damage done to the country via the Stimulus and Obamacare. Consider the following points:
-All federal entitlement programs always grow larger while always going bankrupt
-Federal entitlement programs never go away. Ever.
-Just three entitlement programs, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, account for nearly 60% of the federal budget already. Now Obamacare has entered the fold (see my first point about entitlements)
-If the Republicans take both the House and the Senate this November, they won’t be able to overcome Obama’s veto pen- a pen which I predict Obama will use out of spite, regardless of how much harm it might cause.
-For the Republicans to undo any of these entitlements, they would have to 1) control the White House, 2) have a majority in the House, 3) have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, and 4) have members both conservative and gutsy enough to side with those who want to cut entitlements.

I’m reminded of Bulwiyf’s battle with the Wendol Mother in “The 13th Warrior”. The two combatants faced off in a cave- Buliwyf with his sword, and the Wendol Mother with a talon dipped in some kind of poison. Buliwyf cut off her head, but not before she gave him a scratch with the poison. By the end of the final battle, the poison had killed him.

Obama and the Democrats may be defeated in November, and even again in 2012. But they are the Wendol Mother to the Republican Buliwyf. The poison of Obamacare, and other federal entitlements, is just now hitting the United States. As with Buliwyf, America’s demise will be fait accompli.

Get used to it, because it will result in some awful times in the coming years.