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Aside from that...

Economics: Things will continue in a steady-state shitty. The rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer, the middle class will be increasingly squeezed just by outside conditions.

National Politics: Democratic majorities in both houses in '06 despite gerrymandering rigamarole. The Republican Revolution Mk 2 will be kneecaped completely by '07.

International Politics: The War on Terra will peter out and become a sort of low-level hostility towards, well, everybody. Kim Il Jung may snap and try for forcible reunification, thus catching himself between the US hammer and the Chinese anvil, and going out in a blaze of glory. Blair will get his no-confidence vote and be turned out to write his memoirs.

Judicial Concerns: The most egregious of Bush's court nominees will continue to be fillibustered. At least one Supreme Court justice will either retire or croak (not Rhenquist - he'll hold on out of sheer spite if nothing else) and Bush will be stuck appointing an utter nonentity in order to make it through the confirmation proceedings.

Social Concerns: Things will be ugly, but they will not descend into an orgy of Nazi madness. (Message to the doomed romantics: Sorry.) Probably one, maybe two more restrictions on abortion and/or gay rights.

Terra!: There will be no more major terrorist attacks on US soil. There will, however, be at least one major attack on US citizens abroad, my cracked crystal ball suggests a cruise liner. The culprits will not be al-Quaeda, and they will not be caught.

Iraq: Things will worsen until Bush finally abandons Iraq in the general in favor of an ad-hoc UN Peacekeeper force in an attempt to curry favor for the midterm elections.

The Media: Will do what it usually does, chase that bottom line and not really give a crap for much else. A liberal mirror of FNC will arrive, flourish briefly, and then die unless it attracts a backer with the financial strength of Murdoch the Mighty.

Out-There Media Speculation: Murdoch, sensing the winds of fortune abandoning the GOP, sends fire and death through the FNC offices and tilts the balance from the right to the left.

Stuff That Only A Small Minority Of DUers Really Care About: China will begin building a space station. ISS will be completed. Some form of functional nanomachine will be built in the lab, although real-world functionality will not be available until the next decade. The Internet will reach an apotheosis of porn and become self-aware, an artificial intelligence with the brain of Dirk Diggler. The Yankees will continue to go to the World Series, and people will continue to not give a shit.

And Finally, The End: Bush's annointed successor will be hounded out of the country by a Democrat to be named later.

I think I covered everything.