Which is precisely why the American people won't be behind Obama on this fight.

Their response will likely be, "If the banks are so bad, why did YOU prop them up over our objections!? To hell with you!"

I see 2010 being a disaster for the Obama Administration. Assuming CrapCare actually makes it to his desk (which is beginning to look doubtful) he (and Congress) are going to spend 2010 defending their support for it.

Global Warming legislation? Fegeddoboutit.. Coming out of the coldest winter in decades, breaking cold weather temps that have stood for over a century and with even UN scientists stating that the planet will be experiencing Global Cooling for at least another 20-30 years, any politician who brings up Global WARMING legislation will be laughed at and run out of office on a rail.

We have seen clearly that Obama doesn't have the political experience to expend his popularity capital for the gays in the military issue. I don't see this changing any time soon.

Gitmo closing?? Ain't gonna happen. With the specter of the Xmas Day attack, Obama will be hard pressed to justify the closing of Gitmo..

That pretty much is it for Obama's agenda. He won't get any help from Democrats in Congress either, as they will be too busy holding onto their jobs for dear life.

Add to all that that there will likely be a successful terrorist attack on US proper in the March/April or August/September time frame and the entire country will be screaming for Dick Cheney to run for President in 2012..

OK, that last one is probably not likely, but you wait and see what happens when Americans die on American soil from a terrorist attack. The American people will demand that Gitmo NOT be closed, but rather be expanded.

I predict that the Democratic Party is in for a very VERY rough 2010 and will see huge losses in the midterms on 2 Nov 2010.

Michale.....

There is a lot about this administration that is not going exactly the way I had imagined.

However, I think President Obama fully intended to fight the banks in 2010 and he will do just that if his tireless treasury secretary can bring congress along to pass the tough financial reform regime that Geithner has been developing.

Unfortunately, before President Obama could fight the banks and the AIGs of the system, he had to spend most of the year rescuing them first.