The flip side of this of course is that some people are *already* getting frustrated with Obama not changing the country overnight. He's been in office for 8 full days, and getting judged already?

Seriously. I was listening to NPR on the way home, and I hear this reporter go [paraphrase] "...so the Obama bailout bill passed in the House, but none of the Republicans voted for it. He claimed he was going to being bipartisianship to Washington, and he has failed."

God that irritates me. The man made a near-unprecedented trip to Capitol Hill to speak mostly with Republicans. He's reaching out a hand, even if he didn't succeed in changing anyone's mind. Regardless, like I said, it's been *eight fucking days.* Lay off the halo, but lay off the unreasonable expectations too.

These parties have been at each other's throats for so long its gonna take a while to smooth things over. In the same broadcast I hear the anchor go, "yeah, so the bill passed in the House, but there might be enough votes in the Senate for a Republican block." And I started thinking, when did this turn into a football game? How about the media actually discusses THE BILL and whether ITS A GOOD IDEA, instead of acting like there's gonna be a score at the end? Ultimately they (and we) are all working for the same thing, but you sure as hell wouldn't know it to watch the news.

/rant