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Open for questions, again
Ben Smith's Blog — The Transition's "Open for Questions" feature is, again open for questions, with some visible improvements.

Monday's Mini-Report
Political Animal — ... . The CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority today pledged to clean up the massive spill. * The Obama transition office has re-opened its " Open for Questions " feature, and it seems more user-friendly now. * The war in Iraq may not be over, but the major U.S. television networks have ...

Ari Melber: Ask Obama For a Torture Special Prosecutor
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions Search for "Fitzgerald" [...and] find our question Look right for the checkbox, mouseover it so it goes from white to dark, then click to cast your vote ...

Open for questions, now more open
Ben Smith's Blog — The relaunch of the transition's Digg-style "Open for Questions" page includes adaptations aimed seem aimed at protecting the system both from outside influence and from manipulation by users. The system allows users to submit questions and to vote which questions need answers. The top economic question currently asks about making bailout recipients accountable for what they do with the money they're given, and the top foreign policy question asks how Obama will bring about a Palestinian State. One central change: The new system prevents linking directly to questions. That makes it harder for ...

Action Alert: Action Alert: Vote for single payer on Obama's website
Corrente — ... position. The Obama transition team is soliciting questions from the public via their web site. Visitors may "vote" for the best questions, which will then be responded to by the Obama team. As of this writing, single-payer questions have been voted #2 and #3 under the "health care" section. Please help us vote them to the top and send a strong message to the Obama team and the new Congress that the American public favors single payer, not incremental band-aids. http://change.gov/openforquestions Read more…

Hullabaloo — ... ranked sixth in voting last time -- out of over 10,000 submissions -- but the transition team only answered the top five questions. Now that Vice President Cheney confessed his support for waterboarding on national television, flouting the rule of law, the issue is even more urgent. Activist Bob Fertik, who has submitted the question twice, explains how you can vote to press this issue on the transition team: Sign in at http://change.gov/openforquestions Search for "Fitzgerald" [...and] find our question ...

Ask Obama for a Torture Special Prosecutor
Daily Kos — ... in voting last time -- out of over 10,000 submissions -- but the transition team only answered the top five questions. Now that Vice President Cheney confessed his support for waterboarding on national television, flouting the rule of law, the issue is even more urgent.  Activist Bob Fertik, who has submitted the question twice, explains how you can vote to press this issue on the transition team: Sign in at http://change.gov/... Search for "Fitzgerald" [...and] find our question ...

Ideas from outside
Ben Smith's Blog — Alongside the Transition's large-scale "Open for Questions" effort, the independent, left-leaning social action site Change.org has gotten a wide response to its own system, "Ideas for Change," for suggesting policy ideas to the Obama administration. The responses are interesting, further left and more tightly-focused than the questions produced by Transition. Atop the agricultural policy pile: "Legalize Milk."

Don't Let Them Get Away With It
Open Left - Front Page — ... the night on January 20th, facing no further serious consequence for their actions.  After all, it will eat up too much political capital, be too divisive, and piss off too many villagers to do anything else.  Well, conventional wisdom is always right, until it's not.   Digby notes an effort spearheaded by Ari Melber to promote a key question about this on Change.gov.  Here's what you do: Voting remains open:   1. Sign in at change.gov/openforquestions   2. On the left menu, click "Additional Issues." Bob ...