Planting mines, waiting for Obama,

To make sure his term of office is a disaster. Dday of Hullabaloo explains the process and finishes:

This is about the White House implementing and locking in their agenda to the bitter end, along the same principles of deregulation and laissez-faire capitalism that has put the entire economy in turmoil and put lives at risk from enivronmental decay and overall health and safety. The only figure outside the Administration quoted in the article praising the plan is a vice president of the US Chamber of Commerce. Just so you know where this is headed.

There's nothing all that insidious about this - the President can make rules changes whenever he wants. But the modus operandi for the final months of the Administration is clear: preserve as much of their agenda as possible, codify it, make sure the successor can't change it, and make sure there are enough malefactors installed throughout the government so that a Democratic President can be endlessly undermined. That and covering their own asses through things like immunity legislation in FISA is really all they're concerned about.

As I keep on saying, Obama will have to fire everyone who has been hired after January 20, 2001, rehire those that have quit in disgust, and bring back in the professionals rather than the party hacks. The vast right-wing conspiracy's smear machine is already shifting to offense.