steveaz @ 82 said:

“Return power to the states.”

That’s the last act in a multi-act play. Some predictions:

1) Obama and the US Congress go through extensive Kabuki theater that produces nothing of significance. The markets and credit agencies react appropriately, i.e. everything crashes big time.
2) Obama gets the heave-ho in 2012 along with the Democrats in the Senate.
3) ObamaCare along with most of Obama’s socialist vision gets repealed by the new congress.
4) After repealing Obama’s socialist program, the Republicans recognize the federal government is still bankrupt and opt to toss the whole socialist program into the trash can. Big problem: There are millions of Americans who are dependent upon Social Security and Medicare. The Republicans gift wrap and tie a bow around the whole stinking pile of excrement and hand it to the individual states: Your problem!
5) Hopefully after the smoke clears and the dust settles, there will be a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the 16th amendment will have been repealed. After those modifications to the U.S. Constitution, American socialism will lay dead and decapitated on the ground, with it’s mouth stuffed with garlic and a stake through its heart. Noam Chomsky could be elected President after that but be able to do nothing because he’d have no funding mechanism. He’d be all bark and no bite.