Barack Obama hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and I’m already findings things to complain about. Not that I ever thought he was perfect but some of the things that have come across my desk in the last week have been causing me to shake my head in dismay.

One piece of good news is that, Max Baucus might favor mandatory insurance coverage for everybody but Mr. Obama does not — or at least, he didn’t when he was campaigning. We’ll get to see how strongly he feels about that when the rough and tumble of White House/Congressional relations begins to take shape after January.

(I guess that’s where we get to see Rahm Emanuel do his thing.)

The auto company bailout is alarmingly stupid, though, and makes me once again wish politicians could get it into their heads that they need to just let badly managed companies fail, no matter how big they are and no matter how many workers will lose their jobs. For one thing, they’re just delaying the inevitable. For another, they are wasting my money.

And, for a third, it’s a kind of knee-jerk thing for Obama to even be considering and I had a better opinion of his intellect than that.

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