Signs of things to come?

While the rest of the media swoons over Obama and Huck[ster]abee, Salon.com puts 2008 in perspective this way:

1) The Dow Jones industrial average registers its worst performance since 1983 [the first of the two Reagan recessions and the worst since the Great Depression] on the first trading day of the year, falling 220.86 points;
2) The price of a barrel of oil briefly hits the magic number of $100; and
3) 16 states sue the Environmental Protection Agency over its refusal to allow California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles.

--Andrew Leonard

And there's this from your leader-in-chief: "Not over my dead body will they raise your taxes." --George W. Bush, Ontario, California, Jan. 5, 2002.