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Dems Talk About Need for Obama to Step Up
The Page by Mark Halperin - TIME.com — ... Associated Press: Party leaders are growing impatient with the president-elect's refusal to inject himself in the major economic crisis. Rep. Barney Frank tells consumer advocates Thursday: "He's going to have to be more assertive than he's been."       ...

MORNING READ
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room — ... Liberal bloggers push back against Democrats in Congress pressing President-elect Barack Obama to do more about the economic crisis. One blogger's suggestion that it's time to make the District of Columbia a state splits bloggers on both sides. But the blogosphere comes together to dismiss lawsuits over Obama's eligibility for the presidency. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and other Democrats have suggested that Obama hasn't been assertive enough in his support of the auto bailout. But Obama isn't even president yet and deserves more time, writes Awesome Blog's ...

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [57] -- End Of Prohibition 75th Anniversary Edition
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... This really isn't even a talking point, so I hope you'll forgive me. But Barney Frank got off such a funny line the other day that I had to highlight it here. Frank is one of the few people who realize that when Obama and the media talk about "post-partisan" what they really sometimes mean is "watering down the Democratic position." But it wasn't so much what he said as how he put it to the Associated Press: ...

Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Transition
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Believe me, no one's sparing the adjectives right now. This transition is the earliest, biggest, fastest, best organized, most efficient on record, even as Obama himself has "maintained one of the most public images of any president-elect." It's cause for congratulations all around, a powerful antidote, we're told, to Bill Clinton's notoriously chaotic transition back in 1992. In fact, we can't, it seems, get enough of a transition that began to gather steam many months before November 4th and has been plowing ahead for more than a post-election month now. ...

The Imperial Transition
AntiWar.com — ... breath, nearly two years of presidential campaign mania. Let's face it, whether or not the Obama transition is the talk of Main Street and the underpopulated malls of this American moment, it's certainly the talk of medialand – and at what can only be termed historic levels, as befits a "historic" transition period. Believe me, no one's sparing the adjectives right now. This transition is the earliest, biggest, fastest, best organized, most efficient on record, even as Obama himself has "maintained one of the most public images of any president-elect." It's cause for ...