I watched a bunch of news show today, starting with Wall Street Journal Week in Review and ending withthe McLaughlin Group. In between there were a bunch of shows, Chris Matthews, parts tof Meet the Press, parts of ABC Sunday Morning, Face the Nation, Washington Week in Review and a bit of To the Contrary.

Honestly, I think most of the talking heads are sort of resting after the adrenaline rush of the campaign and the historic Obama victory. But there were a few memorable moments in the news shows today. I have to give the number one moment to Bob Woodward, in the Chris Matthews show, when he said, in a discussion about that someone who thought that Joe Biden as VP would be calling up Hillary Clinton as Sec. of State and telling her what she should be doing was smoking something. It had to be tobacco or jimpson weed or something like that, cause if it was cannabis, no one would be thinking that - you think too clearly on cannabis.

The messages of the day that repeated themselves were (1) that the Obama "stimulus" package had to be bigger rather than smaller; (2) the domestic auto industry would probably be bailed out if they come up with a "plan" for getting themselves back on solid financial ground; and (3) that things were still really bad and that the worse is probably yet to come economically.

Two of the most extreme right wing commentators, Krauthamer and Crowley, both suggested that Obama should be blamed if he doesn't take over the government right away and fix things. Typical. David Axelrod was his usual, dry, calm self. I find him reassuring.

I'm sure as Obama acutally assumes power that the talking heads will get more excited. But shouldn't they be watching Bush like a hawk to see what he's going to do in his final weeks? The only mention of it was on Chris Matthews, where the panelists were asked if Bush was going to pardon Scooter Libby or Ted Stevens, and a majority said that he would pardon Libby. Interestingly enough, Woodward said "neither." Wonder who he is talking to.