Former Delaware Governor Pete du Pont had an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal yesterday arguing Obama will most likely be our most liberal public policy president since FDR.

So where is the new Obama administration likely to take us?

Seven things seem certain, says du Pont:

1) The U.S. military will withdraw from Iraq quickly and substantially, regardless of conditions on the ground or how it will embolden terrorists
2) Protectionism will become our national trade policy
3) Income taxes will rise on middle- and upper-income people and businesses and wealth will, indeed, be spread around
4) Federal government spending will substantially increase
5) Federal regulation of the economy will expand, on everything from financial management companies to electricity generation and personal energy use
6) The power of labor unions will substantially increase, through passage of card check legislation
7) Free speech will be curtailed through the reimposition of the Fairness Doctrine

In short, says du Pont, it will be the beginning of the Europeanization of America.