"I am more scared about Nancy Pelosi ...

... and Harry Reid than about Barack Obama" was a listeners comment on National Public Radio that I heard this morning when I brought our daugther to school.

And yes, this is exactly what I am worried about when it comes to tomorrows election. Sure Obama has had many off-center ideas like pulling the troops out of Iraq by early 2008. Thank God he was not president by then.

But I give him credit for introducing health care ideas that make more sense than the absurd ideas of Hillary and for his aim to reduce taxes for small and medium income households. Not really my kind of guy but at least some signs of reason.

So my problem goes beyond. A pick-up of 15 seats in the House of Representatives is not out of question and my prayers go to all tough Senate races, do not give the Dems 60 seats. It will do the country no good.

Nancy Pelosi is not known for her humbleness when it comes to pushing her agenda. A potential president Obama will be pressured by a democratic Congress to not only raise taxes for his wife and Bill Clinton, but for the middle class who are already struggling enough with their mortgages and putting their kids through college. How could they be the one revitalizing the economy if more and more of their income goes to the IRS instead of their consumption?

A democratic supermajority will turn the country around and a nation that is admired for its spirit of freedom will be seen as going down the path of more regulation, less growth and therefore also less jobs. That is a path most countries in the European Union have taken for centuries and it explains why GDP per capita on this side of the Atlantic is significantly lower.

Dear American voters, for the sake of keeping my dream alive, that the United States of America is the land of the free, please be brave enough to split the power between both parties. vote John McCain into the White House and deny the Democrats a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate. I will be forever thankful.