2007 Poli-Predictions

[Proteas]

Okay, this is something that is normally done every year. Here's the basic idea; post your predictions for what you think will happen politically during 2007. They can be serious, they can not so serious... have fun with it!

Now to get the ball rolling, I'll post a few of my own;

1. Thanks to the newly democrat razor-thin majority in the house and senate, not much will change for the better here on the homefront. So you know what that means? Business as usual in D.C.

2. Due to all the stress from losing the majority lead in the house and senate, the ongoing war in Iraq, and an everlooming deficit, President Bush will either start to go completly whiteheaded like Bill Clinton did during the last year or so of his presidency, or he'll start to go bald.

3. Green Day will put out a polka album full of political imagery denouncing the Bush Administration, and kids will finally see through the charade and see Green Day for the corporate sellouts they really are.

4. MGA Entertainment will put out a series of Bratz dolls so slutty that they will only be available adult bookstores, and even then they still won't realize the degenerative effect they're products have on people.

5. The crisis in Darfur will still be going on, and people across the world will still bitch and carry on about how the U.S. isn't doing anything to stop it... or the Somali civil war... or the starving kids in Africa...

6. We'll be no closer to leaving Iraq, and if we do get closer the American media sure as hell won't talk about it.

7. Rush Limbaugh will get arrested on drug charges, except this time around it will be for having something a more perceived "illicit" nature... like aspirin.

[Begoner]

I'll do the obvious one: we'll invade another Muslim country.

[IllustriousPotentate]

1. A member of Congress will be implicated in some sort of scandal.

2. There will be partisan bickering.

3. There will continue to be a budget deficit.

4. Politicians will focus on sound bites and pork rather than good legislation in preparation for the '08 campaigns.

5. The sun will rise in the morning.

[Begoner]

5. The sun will rise in the morning.

I'm not so sure about that last one.

[Exvee]

Japan will finally bring peace to the united states by taking over with a new progressive attitude.

[JudgeDredd]

I can't do predictions unless i'm very drunk, or wearing a tinfoil hat ..and i'm all outta tinfoil.

[Atavistic]

all matter will ceace to exist thus plunging the world into eternal emptiness and darkness.

just like all the emos want it to ¬.¬

[Oblivia]

I might as well put this one out:

There will be political instability across the country that it might plant the seeds of upcoming civil war where it's just going to be more than just to opposing sides like the North and the South. Hail Cascadia.

The Jihadists terrorist groups along with Osama Bin Laden's Al-Queda will begin to crumble as democracy is overtaking the Middle East by force and actually not coming from the US, but from the Muslim People forming the Middle East into something like the European Union and it would possibly be called the Holy Freedom Coalition.

Kim Jong Il North Korea has gone more than awal and threatens the peace of East Asia after the Six Party Talks had suddenly crashed into a almost two sided brawl without any nuclear warheads going off, yet.

[TheMason]

1) The new Democratic majority will not accomplish anything spectacular in its first 100hrs. However, they may begin pushing something like gun-control and loose it...

2) Hillary, Edwards & Obama will destroy each other battling for the Presidency paving the way for one crippled superstar to run in '08 or some no-name dark horse (who may actually have a chance...but we probably won't be able to spell his name).

3) McCain or Romney will clinch the Republican '08 bid...Gulliani and Rice will contend for VP...

4) Things will get better in Iraq leading to the US cutting our presence down to about 30,000...in 2008.

5) Kim Jong-Il will continue to misbehave in an effort to get more international aid as it comes to light that the country was hit by another famine in 2004. However, it will be too late and the dogs of war will be unleashed and we will be in the middle of a horrible war that dwarfs Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam.

6) In response to the Korean crisis the Democrats reinstitute the draft...

[xineph]

1. Bush will be an idiot.

2. The United States will be arrogant and inconsiderate.

3. The democratic party will continue to be weak and ineffective due to internal bickering and weak stances on issues.

4. The GOP scandals will cool down, but they will continue to prevent it from gaining any respect or power.

5. Various religious groups will claim that the apocalypse will occur within the next ten minutes. It won't.

6. The fight for national, legalized gay marriage will slowly move into favor for the gays. They will fight an uphill battle that they will eventually win, but not next year.

7. Ann Coulter will be outed as a man, and Bill O'Reilly will be outed as... Hitler?

8. Apathy will continue to be the American policy: Different groups will make stronger attempts to rally support for issues such as alternative energy sources and the various African massacres, but to no avail.

9. I will be crowned the new "Godfather of Soul". You know it.

[Der-Ubermensch]

Well aren't you all just rays of sunshine.

[Bolo]

At 1/1/07 01:50 AM, xineph wrote: 7. Ann Coulter will be outed as a man, and Bill O'Reilly will be outed as... Hitler?

Cheney will be outed as the antichrist. Much hilarity will ensue.

[oyster8]

1. We will intervene in Darfur by popular demand... only to criticize ourselves later for having no exit strategy

2. Matt Lauer will be first to nationally declare the War on Terror WWIII, and he will be promptly criticized by pundits around the country for doing so

3. Obama will lose all popularity after a fateful speech ending in him crying out in what can only compared to the roar of a dinosaur... BYAAAAHHH!!!

4. More anti-gay priests will be caught in homosexual relationships

5. The debt will increase evermore

6. Congress will do nothing for being barely split (and really, one guy in the senate is a populist who everyone just deems a democrat because they don't believe in third parties >_>)

7. "Under God" will appear somewhere it hasn't reached yet before Bush leaves the presidency

8. Telemundo will side next to fox, nbc, and abc on basic cable and come with local stations

9. Fewer people will no what a Libertarian is

10. China will come out of the Communist-closet and reveal itself for being more capitalist than we are

11. (The second part of 10 will be more the result of the Democrat congress than China just admitting that it is capitalist)

[TheMason]

At 1/1/07 03:11 AM, oyster8 wrote: 10. China will come out of the Communist-closet and reveal itself for being more capitalist than we are

11. (The second part of 10 will be more the result of the Democrat congress than China just admitting that it is capitalist)

Of course! The Chinese will realize they cannot out-socialize/communize the Democratic party!

Also I predict that the two parties will tear each other apart in that they reveal the scandals of the other. By the end of the year I think the scandal count will be tied at:

4 financial scandals for the Republicans, 3 for the Democrats
2 sex scandals for the Republicans, 3 for the Democrats.
There will probably be a tie scandal where Barney Franks and some anti-Gay far right Republican are caught doing the butt-nasty on some Carribean island.

The Libertarian party will replace the much more splintered Democratic party and begin the slippery slope to identicalness with the opposition party and corruption...

[Jose]

Here it goes.

1. The populist party will rise, and take over the republican party.
2. More Africans will die of AIDS because of the Catholic Church.
3. Dems will still be the party of no ideas, as where Republicans will still be the party of bad ideas.
4. Ann Coulter will still be a bitch.
5. The "no spin zone" will rename french doors to freedom doors.
6. We will invade a country containing brown people.
7. The draft will be reinstated, and the rich of the country will panic.
8. Putin takes over russia and installs a totalitarian government.
9. Partisanship will run rampant.
10. A pro-lifer will blow up an abortion clinic without seeing the irony.
11. The national debt will rise.
12. Bush will raise the terror level from yellow to orange if his rating falls any farther.

[The-evil-bucket]

1. The wind will blow.
2. The sun will set.
3. The Earth will spin.
4. Someone in congress will do something stupid.
5. Newgrounds will be filled will threads predicting 2008.

[Cole]

Obama announces that he's running; A member of Congress or the Cabinet does something really stupid and once again drops the Republican party another level.

[AapoJoki]

Nearly 70 well-known creationist scholars will gather together at a special "Evolution Conference" held in Alabama. After two days, the meeting, as expected, will conclude that all evidence for evolution has been grossly exaggerated or fabricated, and that coming up with the evolution theory was merely an excuse to bring down people's faith in the Bible and stray them away from God, a scheme by satan-worshipping scientists.

[TheSovereign]

1- We will destroy Islam with our miltary and god on our side!

2- Video games will be banned!

3- Masturbation will be made illegal!

4- The word of god shall be taught in public schools!

5- Abortion will be illigal!

lol republican!

[Memorize]

At 1/1/07 10:59 PM, TheSovereign wrote:

2- Video games will be banned!

Hilary Clinton.

Therefore, my prediction based on your's:

-Democrats will still be as stupid as ever.

[Imperator]

At 12/7/07 08:31 PM, SevenSeize wrote:
I can't remember yesterday, let alone March.

I believe they were still pretty high. My birthday is in March and I remember my parents trying to figure out carpooling and junk to come visit me to save gas.

****Everyone is going to complain about history, but no one will learn from it...

Historians are often ignored. :(

I guarantee the first historian who takes office will find a way to either:
1. Create world peace (by taking over the world)
2. Create world peace (by using history to show how stupidly similar all everyone's current problems are)

Here it goes.

Jose, nothing I didn't like about that list.....

Mine:

1.) Terrorists attacks will be stopped. Reps will claim it is because of their anti-terrorist rock. Bear attacks will also be stopped thanks to their anti-bear rock.

2.) Michigan will continue to flounder. Dems will blame Reps, Reps will blame Dems, and your average (now poor) Michigander will want to do away with both.

3.) We will be at war. If Reps win we will be in Iraq, maybe Iran as well. If Dems win we will be in Darfur.

4.) Debt will rise. If Reps win they'll lower taxes and spend a lot. If Dems win they'll raise taxes and spend a lot.

5.) Gas will exceed $4 a gallon sometime in 08. Americans will bitch, but apathy will kick in and we'll continue to take it up the ass.

6.) We'll still think about ethanol and other energy solutions without being any closer to actually achieving them.

7.) Scandals, corruption, and more political games being played.

8.) Abortion, religion, and Pot topics will run rampant on NG.

9.) The country will polarize and divide itself further, based on pointless political leanings.

10.) Same shit, Different Day.

[SmilezRoyale]

1) At the completion of the democratic primary, the general election will be skipped, and Hillary will claim her rightfully place as emperor.
2) and there will be nothing on the news to talk about, except at fox, who will have an exaggerated may day for at least 4 years.
3) Minority women will slowly lose their rights and social status in society as they gravitate more and more to meaningless relationships resulting in their husbands going insane and killing them, raping them, or defiling them to a life of 200+ pounds and bon bons, and under the influence of rap and pop culture fall into stratified professions such as prostitutes, strippers, and bartenders.
4) South Africa will unify the african nations under the pious reign of the W.I.C minimodel south african United nations delegation commitie, and there wil be no war only peace.
5) My sister will overthrow the Clintonian empire and establish the 'OMG' Dynasty.
6) Gai will be saved by the help of Al Gores Flamable tears that also have magical healing properties.
7) Christians will continue to be whinny about the degration of society, muslims will continue to follow up on the christians with murder, and aitheists will continue to be as pompous and arrogant as ever.
8) I will wash my hands of this madness with soap.