Obama's First Three Weeks - Response to Dan Rather's Complaint, 'Where's the Outrage?'

Reagan, Bush 1, Bush2, republican congresses among these 20 years during which the Republicans were pretty much sucessful in implementing their anti-regulation, free-market (minimal controls) agenda. And during the last 60 days of the previous administration, the chief executive was as busy as a bee underneath that slow exterior planting more executive order land mines to remove as many remaining corporate controls as possible in his final retreat. Now its clean up time.

The miracle is we elected a young, physically fit, mentally quick, grass roots, constitutional trained attorney-scholar to head the cleanup. Three weeks! Let's repeat that...it really seems like the new president has been in office more than a year. He is so in-the-air and 'at it' it seems he has accomplished the impossible, being in several places at once.

There is a thought, though, just extrapolate one more term of the last administration and it is not hard to picture a radically different situation.... vacations, no questioning of bailed out banks and corporations, no explanation of how much and where the bailout money went (still have to fix that, Obama), no congressional input except to rubber stamp....on and on. Three weeks! And so different.

Come on. The new president and his administration of efficient worker bees have been so busy and efficient, the only attack the Repubs can come up with is he likes working in his shirtsleeves!! As if all presidents including Reagan didn't do the same. One can just hope the new president and administration keep up the hard work.
[published originally in The Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-12/wheres-the-outrage/2/]