Wednesday Morning Open Thread

Good morning.

Your president-elect will be doing another press conference this morning. The press corps will undoubtedly spend a good part of that event asking about the same questions about the Blago scandal. They're obsessed. Imagine, just imagine, if the White House press corps had treated the build up to the Iraq war or the leak of Valerie Plame's name with the same ferocity.

Somehow I'm not surprised that it was a Democrat who caused the first problems for Obama. I fully believe that the biggest impediment to enacting the agenda of change won't be the hapless Republicans. It will be the Democrats who are either corporate-controlled or spineless, both of which there are way too many.

Let's thread the news...