The Ex-Presidents

It wasn't a Freudian slip per se, it was more like an entire Freudian press avail when El Presidente Bush welcomed President-Elect Obama to the Oval Office today:

"I want to thank the president-elect for joining the ex-presidents for lunch," Bush said, even though he's not quite a member of that club yet.

Sadly, he is not. El Presidente may be wrapping it up, but he still has the levers of government. However, the leadership of the people is all Obama, ever since legitimized on Election Day and he's been building on it since.

Promising new Obama change: Chief Performance Officer:

President-elect Barack Obama, who faces trillion-dollar government deficits stretching into coming years, named on Wednesday a former Treasury official as the first U.S. "chief performance officer" to oversee budget and spending reform.

Nancy Killefer, a director at McKinsey & Company and a former assistant Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, will work with economic officials to increase efficiencies and eliminate waste in government spending.

"We can no longer afford to sustain the old ways when we know there are new and more efficient ways of getting the job done," Obama told a news conference just hours after new official projections put the fiscal 2009 U.S. budget deficit at a record $1.186 trillion.

Amen.

Per Hope Reborn on DailyKos:

I'm floored by the move today that President Elect Obama made in creating an office Chief Performance Officer... I haven't seen much if anything mentioned anywhere about this, but consider for a moment what this means. Hopefully, gone are the day's of "bloated, wasteful" government because there is now an agent of direct oversight with Presidential level access & authority to ensure that programs are meeting metrics set by the President and that cabinet secretaries and key personnel are meeting goals laid out.

If we'd only had this when we went to war with Iraq.

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