Prognosis

This morning, liberals, progressives, democrat candidates and campaign workers are licking their wounds after a tough battle as the GOP/Tea Party licks its collective chops. If you think the campaigns ads were ugly, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Mitch McConnell has stated his top priority is making Barack Obama a one-term president. It isn't jobs, the economy, even attempting to repeal "Obama Care." The grid-lock we saw in the Senate last year will pale in comparison to the partisanship of the next two years. Some of the blue dog democrats remain and will vote with the GOP and cloture will be next to impossible on any one issue. The 200+ bills passed by congress will continue to languish in limbo while the republicans sing echo the Groucho Marx song "Whatever it is, I'm against it."

The House, under a Speaker John Boehner, promises to be grotesque. He expects the president to compromise with the GOP as though he never has. Historically, Mr. Obama has compromised Single Payer and the Public Option, to name only two items, and received no GOP votes on anything! Finance reform and other bills received presidential compromises to the point that he appeared to be giving away the farm his entire term and the GOP response? "Hell no you don't!" Add to this GOP position, the Tea Party darling Michelle Bachman and her cronies who have promised to use GOP supeona power to organize witch hunts.

Republicans, tea partiers, and disaffected voters expect the GOP's priority to be jobs, but under the GOP, manufacturers received tax incentives for shipping jobs out of the country. That won't change. The democrats wanted a jobs bill that would build infrastructure, but the GOP won't pass or fund jobs bills. Guaranteed, unemployment will rise, but benefits will decline. Expect an increase in the retirement age and privatized social security which will be wiped out with the next stock market crash. Medicare hangs in the balance.

Repeal of Health Care Reform means more people will become uninsured due to pre-existing conditions including pregnancy, and unrestrained insurance premiums.

On the upside, Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and Steven Colbert will be funnier than ever--provided you can still afford to watch them.