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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend.... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (16845)	12/30/2005 12:04:20 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35834

From Blogs for Bush..... Predictions for 2006 By Mark Noonan at 09:00 AM NRO has an interesting collection of predictions and I recommend reading them. However, I believe that the readers of Blogs for Bush, left and right, are just as clever as the readers of NRO, so why don't we take a stab at our own predictions? I'll start off: 1. The Democrats will suffer a loss of seats in both the House and Senate in the November election. 2. Assad's regime in Syria will collapse in a democratic revolution. 3. Growing political unrest in Iran will make the Iranian government even more extremist and difficult than it already is; with an outside chance of a political revolution. 4. Iraq will rapidly fade from American news stories as bad news from Iraq dries up. 5. The Democratic left will become increasingly shrill as the year advances, while the political fall out from the left's defeat in November of '06 will be massive and may split the Democratic Party fatally. 6. The San Diego Chargers will go 14-2 next season. Go ahead and list your predictions in the comments - be careful, though, as we'll be keeping this and posting it again before the New Year. UPDATE, by Matt Margolis: I guess I'll add a few of my own... 7. Tom DeLay will be cleared. Rove will not get indicted. 8. The Democrat's strategy of using corruption as their key issue will backfire on them. That, combined with their lack of a plan for Iraq, will result in Mark's first prediction. 9. As a result of 8 and 1, Howard Dean will resign as Chairman of the Democratic Party. 10. George W. Bush's approval numbers will hit the 60's. UPDATE, by jlallen: It must be my turn 11. US dollar will continue to lose value against all major currencies with the exception of the Yen. 12. Energy costs will continue to climb as the growth of Chinese demand places new strains on hydrocarbon extraction capacity. 13. Democrats will continue to block ANWAR and US off shore energy recovery expansion, causing further strain on global energy markets. 15. The Cubs will start the first half of the season near the front of the league and stumble badly in the second half.