Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

More progressives thrilled over Obama succeeding, and more conservatives apoplectic over Obama succeeding:

Sebastian Mallaby:

Dozens of banks, hundreds of companies and millions of households are potential Citis. All have planned their future on the assumption that assets are assets, not some kind of empty hologram. Yet, in the course of this crisis, an estimated $11 trillion in household wealth has been wiped out. Home values, 401(k) retirement plans, brokerage accounts -- poof, gone. It's hardly surprising that traumatized consumers are boycotting the stores, threatening yet more bankruptcies and losses for the banks.

William Kristol: Look! They don't know what they're doing!! I insist they tell everyone immediately.

Ezra Klein re Kristol's column:

The final line of the column, at least on the interwebs, is a little editor's note informing us that "Paul Krugman is off today."

Yeah. We noticed.

David Ignatius: The continuing Villager case against the Clintons.

Noam Scheiber: You thought Gaithner was a good pick? It's better than that.

Jonathan Alter: Just as FDR avoided Hoover, Obama can avoid what's-his-face, the guy we all want to leave early - name's on the tip of my tongue, give me a second.

John Harwood: How to confuse "change" with "inexperience" (hint, the voters voted for the former.) Hey, we have to have something other than Hillary and Bill to write about. What? This is about the Clintons? Well, damn.

Dan Wentzel:

One of the most gratifying aspects of attending "No on 8" rallies was the number of straight demonstrators who showed up -- people who see this not just as an issue for gay men and lesbians but as a matter of everyone's civil rights.

You betcha it is.

Nolan Finley: Libruls suck, okay?  Just because the voters are too stupid to know it doesn't mean Obama can fool me.

Jeffery Kuhner:

Like most liberal Democrats, Mr. Obama is under the delusion that destroying al Qaeda or decapitating bin Laden will somehow end the threat posed by militant Islam.

How else to justify not catching bin Laden on Bush's watch?

Mr. Obama is wrong on almost every issue regarding the war on terror.

Just look at our neo-con track record. What's he got to match it?

Steve Chapman:

Something about Barack Obama has a way of driving some conservatives completely batty. John McCain detected something "a lot like socialism" in his tax plan. Veteran conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell has no doubt the new president will "deliver socialism." But the prize goes to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., who says "we've elected a Marxist" who may create an American Gestapo.