If the Fed's most optimistic forecast were realized, it would be the fastest annual growth since 2004, when the economy expanded by 3.6 percent.
Still, to the extent Mr. Obama's vision is realized, it would radically reorder the power centers in Washington: emboldening the State Department, gradually refocusing the C.I.A. on traditional intelligence gathering, and handing primary responsibility for lethal operations to the Pentagon.
Once Iran acquires more than 150 kilograms of uranium enriched to 20percentt — which could happen by early 2013 if Iran's announced plans are realized — it would need only 12 days to produce enough fissile material for a bomb.
If such projections by Mr. Rothenberg and others are realized, it would push Senate Democrats tantalizingly close to the filibuster-proof 60-vote majority that has eluded Senate leaders since the late 1970s.
All told, if every single proposal in the plan were realized, it would erode the county's 2000 deficit -- which Mr. Gulotta's fiscal consultants have projected at $200 million -- by some $127.2 million.
If everyone would be able to use the same smart systems to trade and the unique recipe for success was realized, it would undermine the competitive advantage companies get by using AI to stay a step ahead of their competition.
Of course, even if that unlikely outcome is realized, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
For the commission to be effective, they realized it would need to be bipartisan.
That rhetoric may not be new, but if realized it would be a change of direction for a President who began by drastically increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan.
"It was more personal than I ever realized it would be, than I ever wanted it to be, than it will ever be again," he said of "A Place of Our Own".
