With Inauguration Day quickly approaching, bringing along with it massive crowds and migraine inducing traffic congestion, some things may not change as fast. The world's economic problems are a few of those things.  Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said those problems won't go away without a little more money and a lot more economic stability.

Samuel J. “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher is now working a gig as a war correspondent covering the fighting between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza strip for Pajamas Media, a conservative blog outlet. But he’s already come out publicly against the profession of war correspondents in general, calling them part of the problem. So, if The Buzz comes out against plumbers will we start to get better pressure and more hot water in the morning?

In an about face so complete that it looks like a transplant, Senate Democratic leaders said that Roland Burris will be seated as a US  senator this week, probably on thursday. Burris was appointed to the seat by indicted, and now impeached, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to fill out the term of President-elect Barack Obama.

George Bush gave his last press as president conference this morning saying that there had been disappointment and maybe even some mistakes, but he insisted that he did no damage to the country's moral standing and that he belived that the history would judge him more kindly than current public opinion. "There is no such thing as short-term history. I don't think you can get the full read of an administration until time has passed."