Post your bold predictions for 2014!

[geek tragedy]

Prediction:

Rand Paul will attack Chris Christie on the Fort Lee bridge scandal by saying that Christie's behavior was "the worst kind of abuse of power, the kind we're used to seeing from Barack Obama."

[abq e streeter]

1. The Cubs will once again, just barely miss making it to the World Series.

[JeffHead]

3. Really going out on a limb there, ain't ya.

[abq e streeter]

4. The OP asked for bold.What can I say?

[geek tragedy]

7. Well, most years they don't even come close, so that is kind of bold. nt

[Benton D Struckcheon]

2. 1. 3 million new jobs.

2. Repubs will hold their majority in the House.
3. China will have a financial crisis.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Issa will launch 4.3 million investigations into Obama White House cleaning staff.

[world wide wally]

6. Rush limbaugh will attempt suicide by trying to eat a live 32 pound lobster.

Just a hunch.

[bigwillq]

8. Michelle Obama will get pregnant

by another man.

[TeamPooka]

9. Tip: Jokes are supposed to be funny. Better luck next time. nt

[bigwillq]

38. The thread asked for bold predictions, not funny ones.

[TeamPooka]

39. You've confused "bold" with "stupid" and the type of thing they say in Freeperville

[bigwillq]

40. Oh, well.

It's just a silly thread on a message board. Life will go on.

Peace.

[TeamPooka]

41. yes it will. But at least we all know where your head is about the First Lady.

That comment is the exact same one made at RW sites about her by those that hate her.
Since you stand by your offensive comment and defend it then you are exactly who I think you are.

[femmocrat]

10. Democrats will hold the Senate and take back the House.

Hey, it's Christmas. I can dream.

[davidpdx]

11. This is going to be controversial and possibly offensive

Anthony Scalia will finally kick the bucket. Upon doing an autopsy doctors will confirm he never had a heart to begin with.

[Jamaal510]

12. The Raiders will win 7 to 9 games. nt

[RBInMaine]

13. Christie will get his stomach stapled, and he'll burst the staples out with LOTS of pizza.

[RBInMaine]

15. Unemployment down to 6.5%. Congressional control stays as is. My Paul LePage voted OUT as Gov. YAY!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

14. NYC Mayor Diblasio

will have a huge impact on national political issues which will favor Democrats.

[CTyankee]

16. I like the way you think.

I say yes to that!

[blkmusclmachine]

17. DC Democrats throw the Midterms. Democrats kill the safety net. Teabaggers increase their numbers on

Capitol Hill. Obama says some stuff, but doesn't follow thru. Democrats remain absolutely enamored with Party-destroying "bi-partisanship."

[RBInMaine]

34. Please, get on an upper.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Sitting congressional Democrats will ...

get on the same page and start writing and introducing progressive legislation (e.g., increase to the minimum wage, fix the Veteran retirement problem, extend U/C, comprehensive immigration) ... leading Democrats to take the House and expand in the Senate with more progressive candidates, as all Democrats have something concrete and clearly distinguishing to run on.

AND ... the few persistent ones of DU will buy into the next great scandal the gop gins up against President Obama ... again.

[DFW]

19. The Republican savior Gerry Mander rules

They keep the House (barely). Bonehead has a real bar room brawl to keep his speakership, but holds on to it, in part because most House Republicans realize that it is not a position that will further anyone's career in the next Congress.

We keep the Senate (barely), and Reid's invoking of the nuclear option saves our asses for now, but storm clouds gather on the horizon, as we can't ignore what will happen to our courts (all the way to the SCOTUS) next time there is a Republican president and Senate.

Obama's administration FINALLY realizes that they can overtly work together with Howard Dean on health and medical issues without there being 10 year old replays of the enhanced "scream" nightly on CNN to distract from it.

Fox Noise continues to lose out on viewership except in the South and the Plains states, and they continue to go the way of Glenn Beck (entertainment paranoia) in order to keep their viewers (and advertisers). CNN moves further to the right to try to claim advertising money from companies that give up on Fox but wish to stay to the far right of the spectrum.

The weather continues to get more and more whacky, and getting storm insurance for houses, vehicles and livestock will be more difficult than getting health care was for an unemployed cancer patient five years ago.

[karynnj]

21. The Senate based storm clouds aren't as black as you suggest

Having barely kept the Senate, we face 2016 -- when the Senators elected in the 2010 wave election are up. Just as the last two elections favored the Republicans because of our excellent results in 2006 and 2008, it will be the Democrats defending fewer states and having some seats that should be easier to win. (The miracle is that they went too extreme and in the last 2 elections lost 5 or 6 seats that were theirs for the taking. Had this not happened, we would be facing 2014 with a near surety of losing control of the Senate or having lost it last fall.)

Remember, whether Reid used the nuclear option or not - the Republicans did not need the precedent to do so.

I wonder if the real new battleground for health care will not be in the states. For instance, how will neighboring states respond if VT really enacts its version of single payer, assuming it works as well as it has in other countries - saving money, and all the stress of dealing with insurers. Hard to imagine it not spreading to Massachusetts and a few other states.

It may be ironic that the forces that made the system state based, might lead to the states as laboratories with real results showing what works better.

[DFW]

24. I see a threat, not certain defeat

A lot can happen between now and next November, and I suspect a good portion of it will be in our favor. Syria and Afghanistan pose potential dangers, but an improving economy and some the Europeans' emperors' new clothes (as far as their economies go) will start to wear thin. However, we have many vulnerable Senate seats up next year, and Rove & clones will pour a quarter billion into trying to sway the Senate their way. We will need some good arguments as to why people should continue to vote for sitting Democrats or switch to new Democrats challenging sitting Republican Senators. The Republicans have no good arguments as to why anyone should vote for them, but then they really didn't have any in 2010, either, and look what happened then.

[karynnj]

28. Completely agree on the threat in 2014 -- just mentioning that COULD be the worst point

I agree that any foreign policy thing could hurt - as even something that is better than where we are can be spun as worse than we could have gotten.

[Iceberg Louie]

20. Michele Bachmann will make a bid for Al Franken's seat

She will attempt to paint him as a pornographer (again), and he will frame her as a right-wing nutjob. Only one will have mounds of evidence to support his or her claim...

[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.

[otherone]

23. Georgia falls for Jason Carter..

[MillennialDem]

25. Scott Walker is indicted OR wins re-election. Sorry, no dethroning him otherwise :(

[BobUp]

30. Hang 'em High

I'd prefer an indictment myself. Voter's jaws will drop to the floor. I only hope it happens before the 2014 election so he'll be good and muddy.

http://scottwalkerwatch.com/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/scott-walker-investigated-in-secret-wisconsin-probe.html

[RBInMaine]

35. If he gets re-elected, they DESERVE IT.

[NoOneMan]

26. Weather related disaster costs will exceed those in 2013

[otohara]

27. Denver Will Sell Out of Marijuana

on the first day - heck maybe the whole state.

The local stations will be out in force oogling the dispensaries and asking the predictable stupid questions.

[LiberalFighter]

29. All the Republicans either die from a mysterious religious disease

or are transported to a planet in an unknown universe with enough resources for only half of the population.

[boomerbust]

31. Wisconsin wins National Title game

Beats Alabama 35-0

[bucolic_frolic]

32. Warning, I'm a Psychic!

Inflation will hit 4.8% by October

July will be the hottest ever on record with 103 degrees F in much
of the country

Democrats will gain 12 seats in the House, but lose 3 in the Senate

The stock market DJIA will hit 20,000 by December 3

Unemployment will fall to 6.2% causing the Fed to jump interest
rates to 3.5% by December 20, 2014, and causing a 30% market
correction from December 3 to March 30, 2015

Gasoline will be $4.25 a gallon on average

Many people will stop eating bananas

Congress will rescue the USPS due to citizen outrage over the
$.49 stamp

And in the future:

Hillary will run, but face the same fate as last time - an also ran

[Kablooie]

33. The sun will rise and the moon will set.

And we all learn to settle for what we get.
It will all go on if we're here or not,
So who cares?
So what?




Life is a cabaret my friend.
Either that or it's just a bowl of cherries.

[WhoWoodaKnew]

36. The economy will get stronger. The DOW will pull back...

then surge again.

[concreteblue]

37. CONservatives......

will STILL be douchebags.