It is highly probable that the GOP will take control of the HoR in January 2011 with a fair-to-middlin' chance of taking the senate as well.
Now the first thing that should be noted is: the GOP is a bunch of spineless weasels (and that comes with an apology to all de-vertebrated polecat species). However, for the next 5 to 10 years that will actually be a positive because their cowardice has always been a fear of what the public will think of them. Well, for the next 5 to 10 years the public will be very concerned about spending, taxes and the economy. If the GOP is to be a bunch of puss-tard let them be a bunch of puss-tards that fear the Tea Party.
However, as concerns the pitfalls of a GOP victory please keep in mind that even if the grabs the senate the Dems can filibuster the living crap out of everything and platively cry, "Well, you guys did it first!" Public opinion will be against them but public opinion is already against them and still they demand bigger taxes and bigger budgets. The moderating influence of the blue dogs will have been swept away in the prerequisite GOP led rout so all we will have left are the die hard lefties in secure blue states.
But that's not the least of our worries.
Obama likes to rule by diktat and when he in confronted with a GOP-dominated congress that will become his reflex response. His aborgation of the legal rights of GM's bond-holders, the racist politicization of the DoJ, the SEIU thugs showing up at the homes of political targets are just the beginning. There is no reason to believe these behaviors won't become anything but magnified under Obama. This is, after all, the administration that released a "profile" of potential terrorists as members of the military who swore to protect and defend the US Constitution because they might actually think the 10th Amendment is the writ of law or something.
This is also the same administration that sent the First lady to speak before the NAACP on the eve of that organization's resolution to condemn the president's prime political opposition, The Tea Party, as racist. Coincidentally, the same day the NAACP resolution was passed the administration declared that its big beef with al Qaeda was that it AQ was acting like a racist organization because it was killing Africans. The declaration itself was stunnig as it seemed to back-handedly and with stunning insensitivity diminish the lives of all the Europeans, Indians, Filipinos and Arabs slaughtered by AQ but this administration can't even bring itself to call terrorism, terrorism. We are instead treated to terms like "overseas contingency operations" and "man-caused disasters."
But lo and behold, First Lady gives street cred to NAACP, which in turn paints the president's dissenters as racist on the same day the president reaffirms that terrorism is a racially motivated act.
Hold on tight kids, January 2011 is just the beginning.
