Remember playing "Hot Potato" as a child? 
It's starting to seem like this was a calculated political game by the RNC, Rush and others starting back in October.
Once they saw that McCain was going to lose, and that Obama's poll numbers were so high, they seemingly (grudgingly) embraced Obama for a couple of months. Even the BEST president with the BEST economic policy & team would be challenged. With an incompetent boob like Obama at the helm -- he'd have a snowball's change in h*ll of fixing the economy.
It may seem like a risky game of Hot Potato, seemingly sitting on your hands until the new administration comes in, seemingly letting the economy tank with millions of people losing trillions of dollars of their retirement portfolio...