It's taken me almost a week to tread the path of the pundits opinions in the aftermath of the stunning victory of President-Elect Barack Obama. I'm extremely pleased about the first and not so much about the pundits, as follows. I am, however, interested in Obama's picks for his cabinet.
Some of the offers out there for posts to Obama's cabinet and their specialties. Quite a list of names in that menu. At this point, Rahm Emanuel has accepted Obama's offer for White House Chief of Staff. I am not sure whether I would prefer him there or in position as Speaker of the House where he would be extremely useful to Obama in accomplishing his goals. However, this suppositioning really is unnecessary and ticks me off, bt American Prospect does a good job of discrediting the idea.
I am thrilled beyond measure that one of Obama's first issues is to review and reverse Bush's executive orders. There are a lot of them and most are reprehensible. More on Obama's intentions to reverse these executive orders:
Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on climate change, stem cell research, reproductive rights and other issues, according to congressional Democrats, campaign aides and experts working with the transition team.
A team of four dozen advisers, working for months in virtual solitude, set out to identify regulatory and policy changes Obama could implement soon after his inauguration. The team is now consulting with liberal advocacy groups, Capitol Hill staffers and potential agency chiefs to prioritize those they regard as the most onerous or ideologically offensive, said a top transition official who was not permitted to speak on the record about the inner workings of the transition....
More on Obama's fist steps.
Saxby Chambliss is such a pig, which must make McCain and Palin alike in their support.
This is an awesome synopsis of what Obama's next steps entail.
Jonathan Chait asks: "What part of "overwhelming electoral defeat" does the GOP not understand?"
Damn, I'm getting hungry. I wonder what's for brunch?
On Obama's reception throughout the world. I agree, show me the money!
I love this: Obama a two-term President of the USA and tte folks jostling to create a relationship with him. A more negative attitude from the Boston Globe.
The New Yorker details "How Obama Won."
Naked Brunch Music: Amos Lee (Get them at my place)
Naked Brunch: Lusty French Toast, thick smoky bacon, tangy tangerines, and java. Yum!
And, just because it will aggravate Michael's musical taste:
Ta Ta!
"What part of 'overwhemling electoral defeats' does the GOP not understand?"
ReplyDeleteRecognition of this fact takes the ability to feel humility.
While Obama got only around 52% of the popular vote and this wasn't a 60/40 defeat or anything, this is still a rousing defeat of the entire conservative agenda that's been displayed over the past 8 years. For Republicans, like Peggy Noonan in her WSJ this weekend, to say that Obama won only a mandate to implement a "moderate" agenda is laughable compared to the support these fuckwads gave to Bush's hard right administrations after "winning" two questionable and incredibly close elections. If Bush's electoral "victories" allowed him a hard right mandate, then Obama has the mandate to resurrect Gus Hall and Eugene Debs and place them in his administration if he so pleases.