Court’s decision to overturn Washington,
Give Driver’s Licenses
confi dential balloting in which workers now
D.C.’s, gun ban. Obama will get a chance
to Illegal Immigrants
determine whether they want to be
to fi ll 14 appeals-court vacancies, and unionized. Even former Democratic
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Probability: 8.5
presidential candidate George McGovern
is 88.
U.S. Impact: 6.6
warns that the measure could deny
GOP Impact: 7.4 “freedom to many Americans.”
Enact Amnesty for Illegal
GOP Misery Index: 7.43
Immigrants
Obama says giving illegals licenses “is
Impose Greenhouse
the right idea.”
Probability: 8.2
Restrictions
Unfortunately, a driver’s license confers
U.S. Impact: 7.8
many other rights to anyone who holds it.
Probability: 8.5
GOP Impact: 8.8 With a license, you can board a commercial
U.S. Impact: 7.8
GOP Misery Index: 8.26
aircraft, open a checking account, or register GOP Impact: 2.3
Democrats know that amnesty for
to vote.
GOP Misery Index: 6.2
America’s 12 million illegal immigrants
“When you give somebody a license you
Energy companies are bracing for a
is the best way to lock in the gains it
give them the keys to the kingdom,” says
double whammy: Obama will push for the
achieved in 2008.
ALIPAC’s Gheen. “You have at that point
greenhouse-gas cap-and-trade system he
Given the 2006 political backlash
given them a type of legal presence.”
once said would bankrupt coal-fi red power
against immigration reform, however, plants, while hitting oil companies with a
look for Obama and Congress to move
Hike Taxes
windfall profi ts tax. It’s all part of “spreading
circumspectly. The fi rst step will be
Probability: 6.6
the wealth around.”
legislation fast-tracking naturalization
for all illegals serving in the U.S. military
U.S. Impact: 7.2
Silence Talk Radio
or attending college. Next, processing
GOP Impact: 6.3
backlogs will be expedited. Given that 67 GOP Misery Index: 6.7
Probability: 5.6
percent of Latinos voted for Obama in Obama promised to cut taxes for 95
U.S. Impact: 7.8
2008, the long-term impact on the GOP percent of Americans — quite a feat, GOP Impact: 8.5
could be devastating. considering that only about 60 percent of
GOP Misery Index: 7.3
Amnesty would be “a nation killer” Americans earn enough to pay taxes in the
Democratic Campaign Chairman
politically, says William Gheen, president fi rst place. Political sleight-of-tongue aside,
Charles Schumer recently compared
of the Raleigh, N.C.-based Americans for any realistic hope of extending the Bush tax
outlawing talk radio with “limiting
Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC). It would cuts died on Nov. 4. Obama has yet to back
pornography.” So should Rush, Sean,
“destroy any future hopes for immigration off on his plan to hike taxes for the
Laura, and the gang start looking for
enforcement or border security,” he warns. wealthiest 5 percent of Americans, despite
another line of work? The guess here is
the worst economic conditions since the
that the Democratic troika of Obama,
End Faith-Based Initiatives
Great Depression.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Sen.
Probability: 7.7
Harry Reid will have too many bigger
U.S. Impact: 7.1
Implement ‘Card Check’
problems to deal with, at least initially. But
GOP Impact: 6.5
in the Workplace
count on frequent attempts to intimidate
right-minded radio.
GOP Misery Index: 7.1
Probability: 6.0
Obama insists that religious groups
U.S. Impact: 8.1
Promote Islamic Education
not discriminate in hiring, which could kill GOP Impact: 7.2
Probability: 5.5
faith-based initiatives. This could mean,
GOP Misery Index: 7.1
for example, that an Orthodox Jewish
U.S. Impact: 6.1
The unions helped elect Obama and
group would have to hire an avowed
expect some payback. They’re demanding
GOP Impact: 2.7
atheist to administer a faith-based
approval of the Employee Free Choice Act,
GOP Misery Index: 4.76
program. “He’s rolling back the Bush
which, naturally, being a government
Despite the recession, Obama plans to
protections,” Richard Cizik, vice president
program, seeks to take away employees’ free
pour $2 billion into reforming schools —
of the National Association of
choice. The act would eliminate the
not in America, mind you, but in the Middle
Evangelicals, told The New York East.
Times. It’s all part of Obama’s plan to defeat
global terrorism by winning “the battle of
ideas.” Obama promises to “work with
moderates within the Islamic world” by
Count on frequent
establishing “a $2 billion Global Education
Fund to work to eliminate the global
efforts to intimidate
education defi cit and offer an alternative to
extremist schools.”
right-minded radio. Rush Limbaugh’s skeptical reaction:
“You’re going to be paying for schools that
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