During my working career (I'm retired now), I used two tools to keep myself organized and productive through even the most hectic days. Those tools were a day planner and a pocket notepad. The day planner recorded all appointments, meetings, trips, deadlines, etc., and the notepad was for a list of Things To Do - things I thought needed doing that day. I spent the first part of each day updating both, adding items that moved up in priority, scratching out the completed items, and moving items not completed the previous day to the new page. This worked very well for me and I taught it to the kids as they grew up.
Anyway, I thought I'd help out Obama and make up a "Things To Do" list for him so he could go to work on Day One. See what you think and feel free to add your own items or dispute items you don't like. My hope is that it stimulates thought on what actions people would actually expect from a Democratic administration and Congress.
I am assuming a filibuster-proof Senate, and that is probably a little overoptimistic, but I suspect a Senate result in the 57-43 or better range would cause the GOPers up in 2010 to become very accommodating without BushCo in the background threatening their political lives unless they support Bush's neocon insanities.
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