Penny Pritzker is gone???? I thought he nominated her for commerce.

Aaaah. so in January he's going to get rid of all the political insiders he's invited to serve in his cabinet? Like we've been saying all along.. Obama is nothing but empty promises and catch phrases.

Why is the President-elect being held responsible for the current mess? Why can't the CURRENT PRESIDENT DO HIS JOB?

Guys,

Don't forget we still have a President.

He is called George W. Bush.

Is the guy asleep at the wheel as usual?

What is he doing about the current Market collapse?

Until Obama becomes President he can do nothing.

George Bush can use a single Executive Order to fix some of this crap.

Boy, who did we end up with such an incompetent like Bush?

Pathetic indeed.

President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.

Don't ask don't tell is OK for now.

Why should the military wanna know if I am gay or not?

I think there are more important issues regarding the military that the new President has to tackle.

Obama's Attorney General Wants to Regulate Internet Speech.

“The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is gonna be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at.” - May 28, 1999 NPR Morning Edition

Pardon me, but I’m looking at the First Amendment, and I’m a bit confused. Where in this statement does it say that the government has the authority to impose “reasonable restrictions” on speech?

Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech. That appears rather clear. It doesn’t authorize “reasonable restrictions”, or “reasonable regulations”, or what Holder really wants, “reasonable federal censorship.”

We apparently will have an incoming administration blissfully ignorant of the Constitution they will swear to defend. Barack Obama couldn’t articulate a coherent statement on gun rights despite his supposed status as a Constitutional scholar, Joe Biden couldn’t figure out what Article I actually establishes, and now Eric Holder hasn’t read the First Amendment. Maybe we should pass out more of those Robert Byrd Pocket Constitutions during the transition, and hold a test before Inauguration Day.
Anyone want to guess what form those “reasonable restrictions” might be? Perhaps, say, regulating content in the blogosphere? I’m guessing that will be Target One for the Holder-run DoJ.

Steve_NJ,

Let us start with a really simple one, exactly WHAT do you think the President (Bush or Obama) can do with that executive order?

Instead of whining that every problem since the big bang is Bush's fault, why are you not screaming at the DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS to get OVERSIGHT in place on the first bailout?

Pelosi & Reid are the ones asleep at the wheel and they were trying to run the whole country over a cliff until public pressure forced them to back off this insane auto bailout.

Still don't understand the Clinton appointment, assuming the reports are correct. She's not exactly among the steady hands I assumed Obama would tap.

Announcing the financial team on Monday will be a good move, however. Assuming management of the bailout plan will be the immediate challenge.

Censorship: "We apparently will have an incoming administration blissfully ignorant of the Constitution they will swear to defend."

Lol, a little over-dramatic are we?

Nothing will improve in January, if anything, it will get worse. Pelosi, Reid, Franks, Dodd and now Obama and his joke of an administration are all a recipe for disaster.
Obama and all his "yes men" set the bar so high during the election that now they are coming out and telling everyone to lower their expectations. They know Obama isn't really the Messiah they packaged him as to get elected.
Obama is hiding from the economic disaster because he has no idea what to do.

Obama supporters are suckas!!!

"Obama is hiding from the economic disaster because he has no idea what to do."

Well, yes and no. He can say what his plans are economically (maybe that's part of the problem) but he isn't president yet so he's powerless. But, assuming that the president and congress can do anything much to help the economy (beyond lowering taxes) is an 8th grader's way at looking at American economics.

Don't believe the tripe Socialist historians have given you about FDR and the economy-his administration and Congress's economic policies made the Great Depression drag on.

The economy is tanking seemingly as if no bottom in sight. There is absolutely no leadership, anywhere, to be seen.

You certainly cannot expect George W. Bush to come up with a great idea; after all, he is incompetent and a lameduck. The Congress of Pelosi and Reid has done nothing for two freeking years, except promoting their Affirmative Action candidate, ridiculing and ignoring correct solutions by people like Hillary Clinton.

Our Greatest Smartest Changest Leader, Pres. 0bama, took his first "present", to have got his corned beef in answering a question about the economy, rather than taking an future leadership role and telling the american people what he is going to do.

Does he know?

Obama is avoiding the current economic crisis. He could come out with what his plans for the economy will be once he takes office and the stock market will probably react in the positive. As long as he stays quiet, it will continue to take a downward spiral. No one likes the unknown.

Also, many companies are closing their doors in anticipation of the huge tax increases they will see under an Obama administration. With the economy already in the dumper, they know they will not survive with Obama at the helm of the U.S.

What I find funny though, is that Emanuel is lowering expectations by telling Americans that Obama will be taking over the White House during the worst economic crisis this country has seen, so not to expect much once Obama takes over. Really? I guess since Obama won a majority of the votes, they are taking advantage of our ignorance. I believe that Reagan took over one of the worst economic crisis' this country has ever seen from the Carter Administration. And a lot of the policies that Obama is embracing were the same as Carters!

A new documentary called "How Obama got elected" interviews many Obama supporters. When they were asked questions given multiple choice answers about Obama, most of them got them wrong. Shows how completely clueless and how low our standards have fallen. Oh, but when the question about who said they could see Russia from their house was asked most people said Palin, even though SHE didn't say it. Tina Fey did in an SNL skit.
People took the lies the Obama supporters made up as factual, but don't even know what the real facts are.
God help us!

Mr. Obama addressed the nation and internet on Saturday to update us and to reassure us that he and his wise councelors are workiing on a two-year plan to provide jobs and to strengthen our economy at the same time. He can official do nothing until he is officially president. Mr. Bush is in the driver's seat. Instead of trying to help us, he is ignoring us, waiting until he can official run away on January 20th. Before he leaves, he will dig our ditches even deeper with his "midnight" regulations.

Bob Woodward questions the Clinton pick as well. I think the quote attributed to him is 'Obama must be smoking something.'

Beyond that choice, his transition is going well. Early reviews on Obama's pick for Treasury seem positive.

If it turn out that Obama is not American citizen, and was born in Kenya, he can not take the presidental office,Who will be the president ? Joe Biden ?

I guess the Slogan for the
Obama Administation will be:
Change? What Change?
With Dashle, Richardson, and
Hillary leading the way it's more like
"Back to the Future"!

For those who are still blaming Bush in today's blog...A little tiring after 8 years, ain't it? What are you going to do after January 20th, 2009? You got into such a habit of blaming Bush for everything, that I have to remind you to refrain yourself from saying such giberrish as, after January 20, 2009, "Look what mess Bush made for Obama clean up!" For there is no end of this from you, even until 2012 when Obama is voted out of the White House, and the Democratic Challenger? No other than the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I am not saying that she will win though. For those Bush haters, watch out for your tiring language, we don't like to hear broken record like yours. Retire your rhetoric, would you? I am looking for "CHANGE" in your usual blaming game.

Obama's transition is going smoothly enough. His cabinet and White House team are getting rave reviews, and he's already been able to calm the roiling markets with the Geithner pick.