Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna

...it's that the Obama administration continues to operate as it did for two years during the campaign and now, apparently, getting good players in place to hit the ground running after the inaguration. It has been and it appears to be a well-oiled machine and I think that's good for the country. We have a whole lot of problems that need to be addressed with the utmost efficiency.

From all that I've read, they have their priorities in place and realize what they can and cannot accomplish early in the administration. The one thing that is overhanging all these plans would be a GM bankruptcy. That would almost certainly result in the shutdown of the other two comnaies as well and could easily tip the U.S. economy in to a much deeper and protracted recession which would be difficult for any administration to minimize.