2011 Prediction

During my short life, I have always heard the rants of anti-incumbency. But already in the primaries, we are seeing that people are actually acting on it this year! This spells trouble for the Republicans, and my prediction is that Mitch McConnell will lose his post as party leader in the Senate when the next Congress convenes. (A no-name candidate under indictment won a primary in North Carolina last month, you might remember.)

The Republicans will be the party to suffer because they are being split by the "Tea Partiers." The blame will fall directly on McConnell, Kentucky's senior senator. Right where it belongs with his "sky is falling" rhetoric every Sunday on the news show circuit.

Beyond that, this nation is experiencing a change in political climate that is impossible to predict. But can getting McConnell out of our faces really be a bad thing?