Budgets… bonuses… banks… bailout… borrowing… bankruptcy… They’re all BIG issues on Obama’s BIG economy plate. (His hopeful eyes must be bigger than his economy-sickened stomach.)

Yes, President Obama’s got a lot of money talk going on. 

And soon, Obama will be on the road again (what a great song!) doing some campai — er, we mean normal, regular old town hall meetings in California.

He’s even got a date with Jay Leno and his “Tonight Show,” making him the first sitting president to appear on the talk show. (But he did go on during the campaign…)

To help pass his budget, Obama called upon his campai — er, actually his normal, regular old supporters to phone and write their Congresspeople and neighbors to garner support for the President’s proposal. This all sounds a lot like the permanent campaign, like we talked about a couple weeks ago.

If all that weren’t enough to keep the poor guy busy, AIG has been acting up again. AIG decided that they were legally obligated to give some of its Bosses employees “retention” bonuses, totalling $165 million. 

Naturally, taxpayers are up in arms. And so is Chris Dodd, ever the taxpayer vigilante. “We can tax the dang bonuses!” he says. (Okay, you caught us, that’s not a direct quote…) We’ll see. However, Forbes seems skeptical that all this anger will last long, because fickle as “the public” are, we’ll all get over it.

Or we’ll just keep putting the pressure on Obama and his staff until the White House literally cracks in half.