Three possible outcomes of a politically split legislative/executive power base

Scenario 1: (least likely to happen)

The Executive Branch, the Legislative Branch, and the all of the American People work together to win the war on terror. Some evil terrorists who need killing are killed, the USA stops fighting a war for territory, and begins to wage a battle for hearts and minds, and succeeds.

Scenario 2: (most likely to happen)

The Executive Branch and the Legislative branch grandstand, bicker, piss and moan, and throw feces back and forth until the next election, while American troops continue fighting a ground war against a mindset. They have tried valiantly to kill that mindset for more than half a decade with bullets and bombs, but mindset persists. I copy and paste this paragraph verbatim into a blog post sometime in 2010 minus the words "half a".

Scenario 3: (absolute certainty)

The moon turns red as blood, the stars fall from the sky, the meek inherit the earth and there is finally peace in the Middle East.