Mongoose #17 & #29:
In comments on this post, and others here at Belmont Club, you’ve mentioned stopping the momentum of the Obamassiah and the statist changes his apparatchiks are implementing at a breakneck pace. You are correct, in that it needs to stop, but I believe your thinking a little behind the putsch curve.
Now that they have power, they have no intention of giving it up, or slowing their further consolidation of power just for some niggling inconveniences like an election or two. We’ve already seen the legislation to fund ACORN.
With the collusion of the main stream media, election fraud on an a previously unimaginable scale, here in the U.S., will probably deliver solid return majorities of Democrats in both houses of congress.
As if this weren’t enough, the ace up Obamassiahs sleeve is the 20 to 40 million illegal alien Mexicans residing in the U.S. These are people accustomed to relying on government handouts and other patronage both here and back in Mexico.
By making them citizens, he adds 15-30 million new socialists to the voter rolls. This will ensure that conservatives, libertarians, and moderates are completely shut out of the political process in the U.S. for at least the next two generations.
By the time these immigrants descendents are ready to move up the educational and economic ladder, and become interested in personal liberty and personal financial freedom / responsibility, socialism will be fully ingrained in the national psyche.

Look for legislation giving them citizenship to become law before the 2010 federal elections. I seriously doubt Pelosi, Reid, or Obamassiah will miss the opportunity to ensure socialist control of government for the next fifty years. This will drive a stake through the heart of our Constitution, as the founders understood it, once and for all.