You could start with re-instituting the fairness doctrine. Maybe it would knock some of the support out from under the rabid right's propaganda circuses. Reduce the amount of elephant poop that we have to put up with.

Wow! Actually, the Bush administration has left this country in such a shambles that it's hard to pick a place to start.
Putting government oversight on the banks, and all corporations who demand a bailout would be good.
So it restoring the Constitutional rights that the Bushiato has taken away from us.
You made a good start with veterans with your appointment of General Shinseki.
And clean up the Department of Justice!

I see my comments are deleted. It is OK. I am not going to bother you any more. Have fun, Democrats and Good luck!

gains of 54 house seats, 13 senate seats and the presidency in two years...not bad, not bad at all!

yippee....most excellent news from the bush efforts to screw us all as much as possible....

EPA drops rules easing controls on power plants
By DINA CAPPIELLO Associated Press Writer

Dec 10th, 2008 | WASHINGTON -- Six weeks before leaving office, the Bush administration is giving up on an eight-year effort to ease restrictions on pollution from coal-burning power plants, a key plank of its original energy agenda and one that put the president at odds with environmentalists his entire tenure in the White House.

President George W. Bush had hoped to make both changes to air pollution regulations final before leaving office on Jan. 20. In the midst of a coal-fired power plant construction boom, the rules would have made it easier for energy companies to expand existing facilities and to erect new power plants in areas of the country that meet air quality standards.

But the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday conceded that it didn't have enough time to complete the rules changes, which were undermined by a federal court decision earlier this year that scrapped a signature component of Bush's clean air policies.

The EPA, in a statement, said that it "will continue to advocate for the important health benefits" the initiatives would have achieved.

Environmentalists, however, said the decision would leave intact for the incoming Obama administration the strongest tools under the law for dealing with power plant pollution...

sally your not truthful ever so go away

Butte on December 10, 2008 at 04:25 PM

I agree. This should be done no later than the summer recess. Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine on all public airwaves.

"An Obama job approval rating of 79 percent -- that's the sort of rating you see when the public rallies around a leader after a national disaster," said Bill Schneider, CNN's senior political analyst. "To many Americans, the Bush administration was a national disaster."

to quote kos and a not so successful vp candidate whose name escapes me...
you betcha!!

browner as energy czar is wonderful. she knows the ropes, will oversee a bunch of agencies the bushies have tried to destroy and rip off and she will set about reversing everything the presidummie and dickie decided....ya gotta love it!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28148474/

Did anyone see this? Our issues with health care are so serious. I think I will discuss this at change.gov. I am hoping for socialized medicine.

I've noticed a strong change in the people in my area. These somewhat-conservative people now want universal health care. So do some of my more conservative family members. Libs and progressives have done a wonderful job moving that issue from far-left to center over the years.

On Chris Matthews the other day, someone from Mother Jones was on and he was saying the center moved. Universal coverage is now center. This is incredible work!

i think you are correct geena. i have read that when polled most americans are for higher taxes if it would mean health care, decent schools and infrastructure came with them.

on another but related note i see time magazine has zoomed in on the role rand's insane belief in a world of pure of heart free marketeers always producing the best in every way and how nuts that kind of thinking ( which is of course the core belief of bush and greenspan and uncle miltie as well....)really is and where it has landed us...again!

"It's not easy being Alan Greenspan these days. As the former Federal Reserve chairman, he urged government regulators to take a light touch while banks like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers buried themselves—and the economy more generally—under a mountain of debt. Now that his reputation is plummeting faster than the stock market, he's been forced to admit a "flaw" in his hands-off ideology.

Of course, things look entirely different to members of "free-market advocacy groups," as they like to be called. One such group is the Ayn Rand Institute, named after the matriarch of the movement, whose antigovernment and anti-regulation views are embodied in her best-selling novels "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead." Indeed, Greenspan himself was a friend of Rand's, and a devotee of her extreme free-market philosophy, known as Objectivism..."

PeeWee, Can you really compare a May campaign technique to a President Elect looking for ideas? No one says he is going to take every idea and fly with it-----but maybe, just maybe some people with some intelligence and good ideas will strike a chord and they will use it.

Hi Gregg--

I will check out that article. It is rewarding to see that the flaws in free-market fundamentalism are being revealed. Well, with what is happening now, you could say the evidence is all around us. It was a surprise to read recently that they are making a movie about Atlas Shrugged. It will be curious to see how well that goes over at a time like this. I wonder if anyone here has heard about it?

I remember when the director of the Rand Institute--an Objectivist--was interviewed on Fox
after the 9/11 attacks. He promoted the use of nuclear weapons on either Iran or Pakistan. Scary.

The ONE thing I hope that Obama administration will do, is to advise Senate Leaders, that if Republicans set out to purposely obstruct a bill with partisanship, that immediately following the vote, they come out and hold a press conference on the steps, naming names and reporting the actions.

Let their constituents see what they are doing. So much for any reaching across the aisle, trying to put this country back together. The 2010 elections should be a piece of cake when the light is shined on these anti-Americans.

I will keep you in my prayers Obama and Biden Families. I have never had so much hope. Thank you for being you Obama. I am a 36 yr old Black woman and I am elated that change is coming for the 1st time I believe that my 3 teenage sons and my 16 yr old daughter have some real hope. To whom much is given, much is required.....please remain humble there are alot of devils out here that lurking. God Bless!

My concern about the stimulus plan.My stimulus plan is much better suited for todays economic challenges.I was thinking about a targeted stimulus plan.For example,I was thinking about (Triple Creation).We create a building or structure,we create jobs, and we create tax revenue.Simple example,multi-story parking lot.That create jobs building it.That create jobs maintaining it.That creates revenue because of parking fees.I know for a fact that lot of U.S. Cities need them.You could place multi-storie structure near airports, tourist destination,or downtown areas.Same goes for Bridges and roads.And thank you for letting me comment.

I missed the ‘Open for Question’s’ program and have questions about the continuation of TARP, anybody still there?

Is TARP a government account between a business and the government where businesses who receive TARP can only write checks from that account to other businesses for business purposes inside the United States?

Does TARP have a rule that businesses have to give monthly and year-end accounting statements to the Federal Government where the government can then verify TARP account information between the government’s account and the businesses account, subject to subpoena? (Would not those statements include the names and transactions of businesses that the TARP businesses are writing checks to from their TARP account that the government could document and later investigate if necessary?)

Is a branch of the IRS working with the U.S. Department of the Treasury to watch out for the American taxpayer’s interest with TARP making sure that U.S. Taxpayers’ money is not somehow transferred into a businesses capital account?

Can the U.S. Congress and/or the White House make new laws and regulations around TARP retroactive to back in 2008 where businesses can no longer take advantage of the Bush Administration not being more careful with the program by CEO’s giving their selves and their friends bonuses with U.S. Taxpayers money? If so, would not some CEO’s then owe the U.S. Department of the Treasury $18 billion dollars in bonuses for 2008 and the former administration an apology that the current administration should not accept?