Someone. a Judge I believe, once opined:  "No man's life, liberty or property is safe when the Legislature is in session."

When a Party holds the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives, as Obama's party did when he assumed office, they took the opportunity to do everything they possibly could to achieve their expanded agendas.  To the extent that Obamacare was passed without a single bipartisan vote or any input whatsoever but was rammed down the complaining throats of the Republicans because Obama, Pelosi and Reid had the power to do it.  And Obama's magic pen wrote a lot.

Soon, the other party will hold the Presidency, the Senate and the House of Representatives.  

That is the "Big Picture". 

What do you think the Party who Obama, Pelosi and Reid humbled so overwhelmingly will do over the next two, and probably four years?  

The House will remain Republican; the Senate was most vulnerable this cycle, not two years from now.  What you see is what you get.