It is great news to hear that Obama plans on overturning hundreds of the President's mandates! I understand that he will concentrate on the economy. It will be interesting to see how many of those mandates concern the economy...

Economic stimulus package. Hey, sounds like throwing money at people to keep them happy. Odd where have I seen this before, I swear somewhere in the past 8 years a certain president dd this, but who could it be?

I agree with the writer, it will be interesting to see what is on the chopping block. Could government surveillance like FISA and the Patriot Act finally be amended to not break the Constitution by watching its people? Could wealthy people have their money taxed and middle-class families recieve tax relief? Could it be that capital gains taxes will be increased? Could we see healthcare being mandated upon the citizens? Will we see social security be privatized so only the richest can retire, or will it be fixed? Could we see spending moved around from drug companies to green jobs?

Who knows, we will just have to see what change Obama will really bring to us.

I wish them prayers and good wishes and hope the transition runs smoothly. As far as decorating the house why the hmmmm? Let's pray our President elect will be able to get things going for America. I am sure he is hitting the road running. God Bless he and his family and God Bless America. We definately need all the help we can get and am anxxious to see our troops come home. God Bless them also.

I'm always glad to hear of any improvement that our government has about the economy. I only wish It wasn't better managed before they handed it over to a new president. Bush policies has aided in our nations debt and know Obama is left to fix the Bush problem. best of luck to our new president. change is what this country tursted.

It will take more than a year for Obama and his administration to cleanup behind Bush. It took Bush 8 years of doing nothing that created this mess. Bush did nothing in 8 years and we called him "Mr. President". No wonder the world was laughing at us.

I'm angry that AIG is getting another bailout when they had taken a junket to England not too long after the junket to celebrate their top sales people in CA. It's unfortunate the media did not publicize that more. Americans are being forced to pay companies for their mismanagement and that is not right. Anti-Obama people can forget about calling Obama a Socialist – Bush has already done that with all these bailouts.

I just wish the critics would hold off until President Elect Obama actually is sworn into office and has some time to do things. His powers right now are limited severely to studying the situation (which he is doing), surrounding himself with the people who will make his administration run smoothly (which he has started to do), and selecting his Cabinet (which I suspect he is already doing).

As for the Executive Orders Bush has used to circumvent the Congress, over 600 of them, there are a LOT of them that should be on the chopping block. I think Bush knows this, and I'm SURE Congressional Republicans know this. The Patriot Act, however, was enacted by the Congress, and therefore will have to go through the complete procedures to be either amended or overturned. It was ill-advised, at the least.

My hope is that Bush doesn't give away another ton of money to his buddies before he leaves office...it is so much harder to get them to return gifts that they refuse to acknowledge they've gotten.