And they act surprised?

Blinding flash of the obvious:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama promised the voters change but has started his Cabinet selection process by naming several Washington insiders to top posts...

Republicans sniped at what they saw as an unwelcome trend. Alex Conant, spokesman for the Republican National Committee, said, "Barack Obama is filling his administration with longtime Washington insiders."

Specifically, the emerging Obama administration appears to be an attempt at reinstating the Clinton era, only more leftward-leaning (after all, there won't be a Republican Congress to balance The One). Meanwhile, the fledgling President is worried people might have, you know, believed in all the H-O-P-E he was peddling:

President-elect Barack Obama and his inner circle fear that some voters expect him to turn around the economy, wind down the war in Iraq and, perhaps, cure cancer -- all by the Fourth of July.

They know they must manage and lower those expectations, CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports.

Now where might people have gotten those expectations? Ahhh, change... and the anguished sounds of disappointed useful idiots.