The year is 2016 and Obama is leaving office.

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21. I believe Obama will win in 2012, but I think the House and Senate will stay the same or...

...get a little worse, seats-wise.

We have a huge deficit of seats in the House. IIRC, we're down more than 25 seats there. In the Senate I don't have the numbers. Let's say everything stays the same, Senate, House and Presidency-wise. It's basically going to be 4 more years of the same. If I knew a little more about the Senate situation, maybe I'd be more optimistic.

But really, I'm now quite accustomed to the New Normal: Not only is very little done, but Repuke legislation is the norm so long as we do not have a Democratic President, a majority in the house and a 60 seat majority in the Senate. Every single one of those criteria has to be met or it's Repukes run the show, apparently.

In other words, I'm getting used to the concept that I need to start restructuring my life to accommodate an even further grinding of this country into a police state. I have little hope of any viable defense, save possibly withdrawing concern for national politics and desperately trying to use state politics as a firewall for this fascism. In Oregon, strong states rights would be a good thing to keep the Federal police state drone at bay, hopefully. I know I'm kind of lying to myself even then.

PB