Post your bold predictions for 2014!

[stuarttman63]

22. Hopefully, not wishful thinking but we'll see.

I predict the flap over the initial roll-out of the Affordable Care Act will have completely dissipated by March 2014 and that the program will be running as smoothly as we all hope by the summer. Speaker of the House Boehner will continue to have terrible trouble with the tea-baggers in his caucus, leaving him with the two choices of either expelling them or coming to some sort of "Grand Bargain" with them(rather than with Obama and the Democrats). I predict in the face of this dilemma that he will do neither leaving him to bumble on in his office as the Worst Speaker Ever. In November of next year, I see the Democrats gaining at least two seats in the Senate(remember that the class of 2010 will be running for re-election) and a modest gain of ten to fifteen seats in the House. The Democrats will not gain the majority but they will whittle away enough at the republican edge in the House to force Boehner to have some kind of showdown with the tea baggers. Whether this will lead to a final split will depend on how much the tea bagger faction in the House and Senate likes its perks and power.