I think the Republicans will lose numbers in the House and Senate in 2012.  The tea-Reps at the state level have attacked the most conservative sectors of the trade union movement (including building trades, fire, police; Reagan"Democrats", Kid Rock fans, Independents, the Real Joe the Plumbers, the Middle Class) so tough that they are the main numbers at ongoing protests. I've been to a lot of protests but I haven't seen these sectors this angry since maybe Solidarity Day 1981; and  women both in Congress and at the state levels. Along with the mass murder by a tea Party sympathizer aiming at the bullseye on Sarah Palin's website, the government shutdown and all the other anti-"middle class" stuff that the tea-Reps are going to do in the next year and a half, I think the Republicans will be toast by 2012.