You’ve just taken then Oath of Office and …

You take off across country on a ‘barnstorm tour’ to support your economic stimulus plan.

What?  Wasn’t that what the election was all about?

According to Fox news this morning,  Obama will meet with congressional leaders this week to get them started on an economic stimulus plan.

The first order of business for Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress is to enact the still-emerging economic recovery plan as soon as possible.

The plan, which some Obama aides think could swell to about $850 billion after negotiations with lawmakers, would be the largest investment in public infrastructure since the federal highway system was established in the 1950s. It also would provide tens of billions of dollars in aid to financially strapped states

Biden, Reid and Pelosi will be forming and enacting economic policy after a few kumbhaya, come to jesus moments with Republicans.  Then President Obama will begin a ‘barnstorming’ tour of the country to drum up support for the plan while every one else back in Washington does all the work.

Meanwhile, at the CNN Political ticker: Clinton Likely in for Bumpy Ride.  Evidently the news media thinks that the Secretary of State is in charge of foreign policy.

Has anybody read the constitution recently or are we about to see the birth of the European-style presidency here in the U.S.?  Will Obama become a constitutional monarch like Queen Elizabeth waving his pretty hands to his subjects while His Majesty’s minister’s do all the hard work.  This was something that I’d never really given thought to during the election, but as of late I’m speculating about it continually.

Instead of one Cheney, will we get two?

I have to admit that I’m going to be pretty happy if Secretary of State Clinton and Vice President of the Middle Class Biden can effectively use their joint knowledge and experience to improve the country and the world situation.  Both of them are without a doubt two of the most qualified people on the planet.  Maybe I’m wishful thinking on one level because the degree of inexperience and lack of depth and breadth of knowledge by president teleprompter jesus just continually flabbergasts me.  He’s hopeless off script.  HOWEVER, and this is a HUGE HOWEVER, is this in keeping with the spirit of democratically elected officials as well as our form of government?

Are we moving from an imperial presidency to a historical symbol presidency ?  And by whose authority have we morphed the role of the president?

Pinch me if I’m wrong here.  Tell me on one level to relax and be glad the grown ups are in charge.  Still, there’s that little bit of Colonial Dame/DAR member (my mom registered me, really) that worries about the role of the presidency in terms of our Constitution.  (Silly me.)  If we’re going to amend the constitution, shouldn’t we at least get to vote first?