A Magnanimous Obama Also Offers Job to ‘Joe the Plumber’
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I was looking for my Election Central Fix.

You will have to rename it, but it certainly would be nice to keep some form of Morning Roundup for the early birds and expats.

I was wondering what Obama's first thought was when he woke up yesterday? On the scale between "Oh shit this has really happened, what have I gotten myself into?" and "Yippee look what I did!" I gotta think it was more the former.

Big job ahead, but the man's judgment is strong.

Really, TPM? Are you really "experienceing unprecedented traffic" at 9:40 on a Thursday morning?

Petraeus is pulling out an additional brigade this morning. Morning in America indeed....

According to Politico, Robert Gibbs has been named WH Press Secretary.

What kind of roles with Plouffe and Axelrod get?

So reality is starting to set in for me, yet I still cannot grasp the fact we won. The conservative world is crumbling. I should be ecstatic, yet I'm numb. I guess I'm in shock or a semi-permananent state of disbelief. I have moments of excitement but for the most part I can't believe our luck, cannot believe the historical significance, cannot believe the effect this will have on race relations and hopefully, our country as a whole. Maybe in a week the reality will hit me.

Maybe in December: when I'll know if Franken won or not. As a Minnesotan that has definetly been a big caveat to this election so far. Go Al!

So with FAUX apparently throwing Palin under the bus now, does it means they don't see a future in her and are trying to politically save McScum? Obviously there is infighting between those who do and those who don't in the GOP but I thought FAUX aligned itself with the former.

To David Kurtz: Rahm Emanuel taking a few days to weigh whether he should take the job as chief of staff isn't playing Hamlet.

He'd effectively be derailing if not ending his own career in elective office. The job requires 18-20 hour days. In 2006 as DCCC chief he was on the road so much his son stopped talking to him when he called home in the evenings. These are serious considerations for a family man and there's probably others he's mulling and talking over with Obama and his team. It's a pretty cheap shot to say he thinks it's all about him.

is expressing some serious reluctance about whether he'll accept the position of White House chief of staff: "I do know something about the White House and I have children now. I have a family." The tradeoff for Emanuel is that if he leaves the House of Representatives, he would be effectively giving up on his long-term goal of becoming Speaker.

Well I may not have been clear about what I'm unclear about. I have solid faith in Obama to pick whomever he thinks is best for whatever position. And I can understand why Emanuel may need time to think it over. What confuses me is why this is playing out in the media. I would have thought Obama and Emanuel would have hashed this all out privately. Yesterday someone (was it Politico?) came out and said Emanuel accepted the post and then had to retract it.

I don't know about anybody else, but I can see why right-wingers despise the press.

This election ran smoothly--despite the press's tendency to be led by the nose and fall for a rotting red herring, their desire to focus on sleeze and innuendo instead of fact, and their *overwhelming* need to create a story where one didn't exist: "Oh my God, what if the Clintons don't say the right thing at the convention? Oh my God, they did fine. What does that really mean? Oh my God, what if there's a Bradley Effect?" And on and on...

Their tendency to be hysterical about things that hadn't even happened--never did, in fact--leads me to believe that I do share something with Conservatives--a disgust with the reactionary "hyperbolizing" talking heads who pass for journalists in this country. Why anyone who claims to be a journalist would listen to Drudge, for example, is beyond me.

This is a place we'll need to hold the line for Obama in the coming, well, two months at the very least.

Jeff Merkley will declare victory this morning at 9:30 AM. KGW and two newspapers have declared him. The vote count continues to pile up in his favor. The fat lady has sung! I predict Gordo will concede today.

CA-44. It is still too close to call in Riverside/Southern Orange County here in California. With little national attention Bill Hedrick ran a great race and is currently only 4000 votes down to Ken Calvert (named one of the 20 most corrupt Congressmen by CREW). There are many provisional and vote-by-mail ballots still to count.

Keep an eye on CA-44.

Count me with those who wish this had been kept confidential until he actually made up his mind. It sounds like he really doesn't want to do it, but of course hard to say no to the next president.
I'm sure it will take up a lot of his time, but will it really be that much worse than it is now for him as a congressional leader? I'm assuming he already spends a lot of time in Washington.
At any rate, he needs to decide so Obama can move forward one way or the other.
My own opinion--if someone isn't 100% on board, best to look elswhere. No drama.

For the first time, I'm saddened by Jessee Helms untimely death. If only he could have held out to see this.

Rahm Emmanuel will be the Sarah Palin of the Obama Presidency. His elbows are too sharp for a chief of staff for Obama's cool temperament; Rahm is too allied with the DLC and the GOP-lite wing.
He should decline the appointment and run to fill Obama's Senate seat where he can do more good.

Makes you want to correct wingnuts and say "That is President Barack "Hussein" Obama". Feels so good to see that shattered look in their angry little beady eyes.

I told people before the elections to say President Barack Obama over and over again till it rang out in the collective unconscious and resonated back to the American public and it would get people used to the title. President American Progressive Liberals. Us and Him. President Barack Obama. We've all been elected.

btw...We need Waxman to chair the energy committee and oversee national healthcare. We need things done in these areas and Waxman is extremely effective. He has proven himself deserving of any chairmanship he wants but I'm glad he wants this one. Go Waxman. Gov oversight won't be as important now that we have President Obama.