2007 Predictions

I would like to do this each year before January 1st.  It will be fun to check up on these predictions from time to time and see how I did.  But it's not just about me.  I would like some predictions from the rest of you as well.  They can be sarcastic ones, depressing ones or uplifting ones.  Try to keep them to politics though.

Here are mine:

• The White House will try avoiding a few Congressional subpoenas, one of which will include the investigation regarding Dick Cheney's secret energy task force that convened in 2002.  Ultimately, the matter will end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
• The portion of the Military Commissions Act that allows for the suspension of habeas corpus will be declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.
• Al Gore's new book, The Assault on Reason, will do very well once it is released in May.  With the Obama, Edwards and Clinton hype dying down in the dog days of summer, Al Gore will decide in September to enter the presidential race.  Will he win?  Well, the contests do not start until January of 2008, so I am therefore not allowed to say!
• Wesley Clark will not run for president, and will instead position himself for a high foreign policy level job in the next administration.
• Harry Reid (D-NV) will step down at Senate Majority Leader and be replaced by Dick Durbin (D-IL).
• There will be a major staff shake-up at Fox News, as ratings continue to drop.
• In August, Newt Gingrich will announce his intention to run for president.
• At the end of the year, Sam Brownback (R-KS) will be the front-runner for the Republicans, and Barack Obama (D-IL) will be the front-runner for the Democrats.
• President Bush will announce a surge of about 20,000 U.S. troops into Iraq.  Attacks in the non-Anbar Province areas will decrease temporarily.  But more soldiers will lose their lives, as attacks will start increasing back to pre-surge levels before the summer begins.  General John Abizaid will resign, as will Peter Pace.
• There will be coup attempts in Somalia, Lebanon and Pakistan.

Comments

[George]

Do you have more info on the fox news ratings over the past few years? Compared to CNN or MSNBC?

I agree about Obama. I just began his book and I'm like 10 pages into it and I'm hanging on every word. I wish I had more time to read it now (but I have to post on here constantly :) ). Anyway, Obama certainly is a significant player these days.

And I think I may take a vacation to read Gore's book the day it is released.

I hope you are right about Reid and Durbin.

I hope you are right about Wes Clark too.

[crshedd]

I predict that Al Gore will announce as a candidate for President. The public will warm to the new, more animated Gore and he will get the nomination. Barack Obama, having run a respectable campaign, will be chosen as the VEEP candidate.

Since Gore really won in 2000 (if nothing else, he won the popular vote), Americans will decide he 'deserves' it.

Wesley Clark will have a shot at Secretary of State.