today's papers

The Big To-Do List
By Jesse Stanchak
Posted Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008, at 7:27 AM ET
The Washington Post devotes most of its front page to a package of stories about the incoming Barack Obama administration. The paper leads with a piece on the unusually graceful transition being orchestrated between the Bush and Obama staffs. The New York Times leads with a look at the issues Obama will try to tackle first. The Los Angeles Times ran its story on Obama's priorities yesterday, and so it leads with Congress looking at using infrastructure spending to stimulate the economy.

The Bush administration has extended an unprecedented level of access to the Obama team, especially where the Treasury Department is concerned. The hope is that a smooth handoff will provide comfort to the already jittery financial markets. That's not to say that the old and new guards are really working together. Obama's team is already working on identifying Bush administration policies they can quickly undo without passing legislation, such as lifting limits on stem-cell research.

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Jesse Stanchak is a writer living in Washington, D.C.