DAVID WESSEL, WALL STREET JOURNAL: And look, it's not surprising, given how rapidly the economy is deteriorating, the prospect of the auto companies going bankrupt before the inauguration -- it's an urgent problem, and if you think the President is a lame duck and is impotent then you want the new guy to take over.

  Yeah but,  wait till obama is in office and watch the 'get something done' spotlight will shift away from the President back to Congress, which is where it should be anyway.  The President can only wait to sign a bill passed by Congress.  And the problem isn't that President Bush is a Lame Duck or 'impotent'.  Congress is a self-led institution and has it's own leaders.  If they want to get something done all they have to do is 'do it'.

I remember the year 2000 when Al Gore thought the electoral college was odd because where he came from the one with the most votes wins.

Now the 77 day waiting period to swear in Obama is odd.

What's next?

Oh, yeah. Capitalism will be odd.

Then gun ownership, then Christianity, then . . . .

I saw a poll where his approval rating was higher for his handling of the Mumbai attacks than President Bush's, even though he didn't do anything.

   Well there's a storyline we might as well get used to.  Obama does nothing...public cheers wildly, the Constitutions twenty-second amendment limiting a President to two terms seen as out of step with the majority of Americans.

Everthing will be Bush's fault anyway, why not wait till 1/20?

Folks we are in trouble "Mark Levin"

Peter Baker understands the Constitution better than most. Unlike President Bush who clings to the dreadful strict-constructionist dogma rejected by the majority change generation, Baker insists that change occur now! This "strange, odd" period of delay is culturally passe'. He knows that when our culture changes the constitution must change also. Recall that it wasn't until recently that the mention of God in the public discourse was actually constitutional! When those that believe in God failed to assert their rights the loudest mouths pronounced a new interpretation of the "old" constitution.We should all march on the White House and demand Bush simply transfer power now. After all, Bush can give up 77 days. That is not much in return for a future tit for tat. Maybe two years down the road another group can march and demand ObamaOne become ObamaGone. Maybe they could have a "sit-in" at the Capitol and tell Pelosistosis to go home to her plastic surgeon. Let's march for Change!

If we'll hear all of this B.S. when a Republican wins????  

"This
liberal would be all about socialize -- uh, uh, would be about
basically taking over and the government running all of your companies."-Maxine Waters 2008

Gwen Ifill asserts: "“what people are beginning to say is that this President-elect should be President now” and “people are saying why isn't Barack Obama leading the fight about the auto-makers?”

"[W]hat people are beginning to say ..." and "people are saying ..."? 

That is one of the most favored techniques employed by leftists in the Washington press corps like Gwen Ifill.  Allege that so-called "people say" something when in fact it is leftists like Gwen Ifill who say things and then allege that it's "people" who are saying such things.

These power-hungry morons don't want an inauguration, they want a coronation.  How do such childish brats get into positions of influence?  It boggles the mind....

BTW This also shows that they think a president is a dictator. What will Barry do - issue an edict that all poverty, and all financial crises and all problems of any kind no longer exist - and SHAZAAM! Instant utopia???

These people are dumber than I thought.

I think Obama fears, the longer the "pretend inauguration" takes place, the sooner the American public will find out they've been duped into voting a non-natural born, Indonesian-Pakistani-Kenyan citizen as president of the greatest nation on earth, the USA.

For Obama:  Orbis non Suffici ("The World is NOT enough") 

The government is like the Titanic - and no, I'm not referring to the sinking.  I refer more towards its attempt to change course prior to the sinking.  A ship that large, with propellors as big as those, can't simply change course that quickly.

Our government is a huge, slow-moving bureaucracy. I would suspect that part of the waiting period is to give the President-elect time to be brought up-to-speed on a variety of issues, as well as to give the government time to make all of the administrative changes that are necessary. (I can't even begin to guess what all of those changes would be - printing of government forms with new officials' names, email and computer security clearance procedures, who know...)

Government can't change as fast as Obama's campaign statements.  I would also suspect that time is needed to wrap things up with the outgoing president, as well as to make preparations for the new president.  I don't know if that's the way this works or not, it just seems to be a common-sense issue to me.  I'm sure the media could find out about if they tried, but then they would have to stop fawning over The One long enough to do that.

But to hell with all of that, Obama is the Change We Have Been Waiting For.  Bush could move to the EOB while Obama puts his pens and highlighters into the center drawer of his Oval Office desk, right?  If Bush were truly as gracious as the drive-by media said he was during this transition, he'd vacate the premises now.  <sarcasm finished for today - unless some slab-headed liberal gives me a dumb reply> 

The Electoral College has not voted for who will be president yet. You would thing the elites at PBS would know this. They vote December 15. Hopefully by then the Supreme Court will have BO’s citizenship decided by then

Barack Obama has never held a job that did NOT involve talking- unless you consider 'Organizing Communities for Communists' a job.

Barack Obama has 'ZERO' executive experience - he has never even run a lemonade stand.

Barack Obama was elected President of Harvard Law Review but published 'NOTHING".

Barack Obama was an Illinois Senator 1996-2004 - voted 'Present' 129 times.

Barack Obama never authored and brought to vote ONE BILL of his own. You know, the stuff, senators are supposed to do. Not just show up and vote 'present'.

Barack Obama, as a US Senator logged 143 days of which he accomplished 'NOTHING'.

Barack Obama (off teleprompter) name the most significant thing you have ever done? uhh umm er uh duh

Barack Obama could not even run his own campaign - David Axelrod did.

Liberals are bragging about being 'Conned' - how funny!

if you are a good enough 'Con Man' like Barack Obama – which involves appearing not quite good enough and rather sympathetic to those they 'Con' – you will get away with it.

Barack Obama walking the path between the 'Obama Current Truth' and the delusions of those who trust him - this apparition is either a fiend or the 'Messiah'.

The advantage Barack Obama has over his 'Rubes', is that his lies about his past and lies about the future of his 'Rubes' are so outlandish - the Obama lies are transmuted until the 'Rubes' rejoice in their being conned.

This orgiastic moment could only be achieved on those decadent 'Rubes' that think they are so intelligent that they could NOT possibly be conned - what a group!

I thought Ifill's book wasn't going to be ready to Inauguration Day.  Is it already finished and now she wants an earlier rollout? 

"I think that when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."  Barack Obama to "Joe the Plumber"

before he's actually in charge of doing something.  Maybe if he'd bothered showing any leadership while he was Senator he'd be more prepared.  Maybe he should be called the President Intern instead of President Elect?

“people are saying why isn't Barack Obama leading the fight about the auto-makers?”

In order to lead, one has to be a leader, either trained in leadership or blessed with the natural ability to lead.  Obama has neither.  He couldnt lead a horse to water.