Obama's destiny: Lame-duck revenge or four-year revolution?

Win or lose, after the election, President Obama will leave a bigger scar on our nation than we thought. If Obama loses, an unseen reservoir of ruinous proclamations, executive orders, and regulations will burst forth in his outgoing days. If Obama wins, our nation faces four uncontrollable years of lacerating presidential whips and chains.

Carol Browner, Obama’s former global warming czar now at the left-wing Center for American Progress, promised environmentalists on a September campaign conference call that the president has “a big to-do list for them” in a free-wheeling second term.