Columbus, Ohio: The governors of the united states of America went to Philadelphia Tuesday to ask the next president, and by extension the future congress for an economic life jacket of about $176 billion. The governors met in the nation's first capital while corporate leaders from Detroit's Big Three automakers traveled to the current capital, downsizing themselves from company jets to cars, asking for a bridge loan to the future of about $30 billion.

Columbus, Ohio: With nearly a month passing since the 2008 Democratic ticket was elected to bring change to the White House and still another six weeks to go until they are sworn in as President and Vice President, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice-President-elect Joe Biden told a national meeting of governors in Philadelphia, PA, today that fresh thinking and ideas that work will both have their ears and inoculate their administration from the kind of ideological group-think that leads to an insularity of thinking they dubbed "Washingtonitis."