Friday, January 13, 2006

Glaivester Reader Predictions

Earlier I asked my readers for predictions.

Well, here they are:

Dennis Mangan: Pat Buchanan will attend Ariel Sharon's funeral.

Derek Copold:

Calderon will edge out AMLO in surprise upset in 2006 Mexican election.

Republicans will hang on to Congress by the skin of their teeth.

Dubya will find good excuse to declare victory in Iraq and pull troops back to Kuwait and Kurdistan. Iran-Friendly Shiite government will lower the hammer in the Sunni triangle under our watchful eyes.

The Iranians will continue to jab us in the eye with nuclear threats, and we won't be able to a damned thing about it.

The Likud will take over the Israeli government, making big promises to the settler right, which they will betray after a few months of being in office.

HR 4437 will pass in a watered down form, but still with no "guest worker" provision.

A few GOP congressmen will get stung by the Abramoff scandal, but DeLay will escape with his seat. He won't return to the leadership.

Mel Gibson's Apocolypto will rock, sending his critics into further conniption fits.

daveg:

I think the Republicans will lose very few seats in the house, and perhaps even gain seats.

They will lose seats in the Senate, however, and may even lose control.

The House is more in touch with rank and file voters as demonstrated by the passing of real immigration reform. I think they will be rewarded for that.

The Senate has not done the same, and the Senate is also viewed as being the chamber involved in foreign policy and therefore more responsible for the war in Iraq. They will be punished for that.

Michael Brendan Dougherty has his own predictions post.

Martin Kelly:

We will all get rich from blogging.

Mark my words, my boy, mark my words...

That is all.

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