'The American People See That This Agenda Is Way Far Out Of the Mainstream'

While that's indeed increasingly clear, predicting a takeover of Congress next year may be a bit ambitious, although I do see a backlash against Obama and the Democrats brewing. Know this much, however: The media will be more vicious than ever against the GOP heading into the 2010 midterms. It'll be uglier than ever.

These may be dark days for the Republican Party, but a top GOP congressional leader predicted today that Republicans would trounce Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections and could take back control of the House of Representatives.

"I really believe we've got a shot at taking back this House because you see what's gone on here with the unfettered ability of this administration and Nancy Pelosi to run this Congress," Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., the No. 2 Republican in the House, told ABC News in an exclusive interview. "The American people see that this agenda is way far out of the mainstream. They want a check and a balance on this power. And I think at the end of the day that's what rules come November 2010."

Democrats currently have a 257-178 majority, meaning Republicans would need a net gain of 40 seats win control of the House. That would be a historic landslide similar to the 54-seat gain in 1994 that gave Republicans control of the House.

Certainly not impossible and it seems to me there is more anger toward big government at this time than there was at a similar juncture in 1993. What Cantor and the Republicans need to do is keep the agenda focused on economic and tax issues and don't play the left/media social issue game.

Even on health care, an issue that has historically favored Democrats, Cantor predicts Republicans will have the advantage in next year's midterm elections. Democrats may have the votes now to push through their version of health care reform, but he says they will face a backlash with "lasting ramifications that will impact the ballot box in November 2010."

"They can jam it through," Cantor said of the Democratic health care plan, "but there will be a huge political cost for this kind of plan to pass in the House."

Cantor should also stress the fact an increasing number want this reckless stimulus spending curbed.