Tomorrow: Obama's First Day In Office
Now that Barack Obama has spent two years campaigning, won an election and has now been sworn in, the difficult part will begin tomorrow: His first full day of work as President of the United States.
Obama will reportedly be meeting tomorrow with Sec. of Defense Robert Gates, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen, Gen. David Petraeus, and others to discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Attending via video teleconference will be Gen. David McKiernan, the commander in Afghanistan, and Gen. Ray Odierno, the commander in Iraq.
Also up for tomorrow, the new White House has confirmed, will be a meeting with his economic advisers, expected to take place in the afternoon. The big task there will be discussion on his economic stimulus plan.
It should also be noted that Obama performed some significant official acts today, as well. He issued an order halting all pending regulations that were issued by the lame-duck George W. Bush but have not yet taken effect. And the Senate voted unanimously to confirm six cabinet officers.
The only fly in the ointment was that Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) held up the unanimous approval of Hillary Clinton to become Secretary of State, requiring an open debate and a recorded vote to be held tomorrow.
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Looks like someone didn't get the message about putting aside childish things...
January 20, 2009 7:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's not going to happen over night, it's going to take years. Hell, about a quarter of the population hopes Obama fails because if he succeeds it means doom for the GOP. They'd rather Obama fail miserably and then put a Republican into the White House in 2012 if they were being honest with you.
The vast majority of the House and Senate representatives have come up in the Clinton and Bush years - they don't know any different. Politics is a sporting event, with entrenched sides that must win at all costs.
January 20, 2009 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Half-right. It will take years... in the form of getting such childish partisan 20th century asshats handed their back-sides in 2010, and again 2012... etc.
January 20, 2009 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
A popular Republican meme is, "Why should people give Obama a chance, when no one ever gave Bush a chance?" And you can read this on blog after blog.
Irrespective of the fact that the Failed President had carte blanche, even for such crazed adventures as Iraq.
You're damn right these curmudgeonly misanthropes want Obama to fail.
January 21, 2009 4:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's all they've got? That's easy to deflect even by GOP standards.
Anyway, I seem to recall that, in 2003, most of the 28%'ers said questioning the president in wartime was a federal crime tantamount to giving aid & comfort to the enemy. My my, how opinions change...
January 21, 2009 8:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
It actually unnerves me how Americans opinons can change. I heard some polling, however informal and sloppy it may have been, comparing him to a Mazerati and Al Gore to a Ford Taurus in 2000. Bush is car wreck, not a car. How could *anyone* have thought differently?
Sure he got Scalia to banana-republic the electin and steal the election, but a *lot* of people voted for this less-than-worthless leader. How did that happen?
How did Americans come to persistently believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11, unlike any other substantial polling group in the world?
January 21, 2009 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Reminds me of similar conversations in the Left blogosphere: why should Obama try to work with Republicans when they haven't tried to work with Dems?
January 21, 2009 9:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any report of what Clinton said to Cornyn when she "chatted" with him today?
January 20, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Any idea when the senate is going to take up the Ledbetter / fair pay acts?
January 20, 2009 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I was down at the mall today. I didn't see the panic nor a fight for porta potties nor a stampede out of the city, all of which Fox News spoke of endlessly and endless other officials on news programs and in papers.
Fixed News strikes out again.
January 20, 2009 10:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well all the reports ive heard from have said that there was not a single arrest, or anything close to it.
January 21, 2009 1:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
And then there was Faux News' constant converage of Shrub leaving DC and Shrub's arrival in Texas as opposed to the Obama events in DC. They tried to make Shrub look like a hero. Disgusting.
January 21, 2009 5:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
When will we, dull our sense for what is real, for what is happening at the moment.
I am impressed at the American people, to come together to elect someone that is worthy of them
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January 21, 2009 12:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Deep question: Is Wednesday the day Obama declares the U.S. an Islamic, socialist, homosexual dictatorship? Or will he wait until Friday afternoon?
January 21, 2009 8:19 AM | Reply | Permalink
It won't be Friday afternoon, because as a secret Muslim Obama has to perform a secret Jumu'ah prayer on Fridays. Therefore Friday will be inconvenient.
Obviously, he will declare himself Czemperor on Sunday, when all real Americans will be in church and can be more easily surprised.
January 21, 2009 8:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
According to one woman at a Palin rally, he was supposed to wear a turban to the inauguration. "mark my words", she said.
January 21, 2009 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
And you did! Kudos!
January 21, 2009 10:56 AM | Reply | Permalink