Remember - it's the W.S.J.
Emotionally, of course I'd like to see -- At Last -- some tit for tat, 8 years worth of TIT -- compressed into One TAT-tribunal. </ fantasy> W.T.F. wouldn't.
Yes, of course this is WSJ-filtered 'advice' -- as if none of the above had quite happened the way it did, espcially in the sheltered enviro of the CIEIO crowd that is their lawful prey. Simply - BO doesn't want to emulate the prodigal and his Handler, for all good reasons not-to seem to be just as retarded a a stubborn brat. Still, given that it IS all a Play:
It might well be a decent strategy to show some initial-forbearance (as you say, until a track record of sane, also effective decisions have occurred.) Let early hints be dropped though, of judicial proceedings being 'worked out' -- lest the perps experience some period of jubilation. I do not want them getting any free comfort; I want them to sweat, to remain in Doubt about just how meticulous and long -??- is to be the New Admin's memory of every detail of the Last Admin's corruption. Treason? are enough of the vox pop up to dusting off its definitions, some months down the pike?
No one person can clean the Augean stables, of course -- the fantasy of these elections always is, that that bully-pulpit occupant has such magical powers. Nay s/he merely needs to Seem to have those, while the perps sweat. Congress will have to grow up and face the debacle, as parties to its creation maintenance and vacillation all-along.
Strange things happen ... periodically, even here in Disneyland.
This is, after all -- the 40th anniversary of the disastrous year from which our decline began its regular negative slope. Is 40 enough, to finally face the trend? (No Idea - here.)
Will be waiting with the millions to see if the new crew is on any similar wavelength. Cthulhu knoze that the kid has been prepped for a range of methods, via all the pseudo-science of the law and during his actual in-the-streets up-close encounters with how our cities look, from the forgotten disaster zones.
(Most previous millionaires who got to run -- only read about that stuff going down, in the bowels of our crumbling city centers.)
I discern that B.O. is a patient, methodical sort. That's the best start I can conceive of.
(Now if the current crop of State *AGs right-Now employing those familiar, 8 yo tactics to impede voting -- succeed sufficient to another manufactured squeaker? I don't think we'll have an Al Gore rushing to be humble This Time Around.)
Like GA:
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/georgias_secretary_of_state_pr.php
