In a way, I split the difference here. Obama is going to leave the Federal judiciary in tatters. All of the regulatory commissions, though . . . When the Republicans retake the House and Senate next year (I'm more and more convinced that this will happen), do remember that the legislative branch controls the purse-strings. No money for those commissions? Guess what? They don't exist.
But, if McCain had been elected, it is entirely possible that he'd try to compromise on quite a few things that weren't in the purview of Defense. The Republican Party would be still wandering through the wilderness, and would most likely get its' ass handed to it in the 2012 elections, even though the Dems will be defending 24 of the 33 Senate seats up for reelection that year. It would be quite possible that McCain would be the last Republican President in our lifetimes.
As it stands now, Obama is taking the Democrat Party down that same path--but not all of them know it yet. It'll be classified as an "ambush." The M$M will wail and gnash their teeth, and they will discover that ordinary Americans--the ones that actually produce things--can't stand them, as they try to defame Republicans going into the 2012 elections. It would not surprise me to see actual violence against members of the media for their leftist slants. I don't want it to happen, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it occur.
