And Dahlia Lithwick, for that matter.  [And the two of them are some of my favorite people, so this criticism is not meant as a wholesale condemnation of them].
I despise the Bush administration and I challenge anyone to a contest of which of us can list the largest number of awful things Bush, Cheney et al. have done.
But ...  I don't agree with Rachel or Dahlia that now is the time for the Obama (pre-presidency) administration to pursue a criminal investigation of Bush's wrongdoing.  Rachel's feeling was that Obama correctly stated he has a mandate, and he should use some of that large political capital to bring Bush and his staffers to justice.
I just look around at what's happening in the country -- home foreclosures, rising unemployment, small businesses (like my neighbor's applicance business) in deep trouble because of the lack of money available to them, and I know that Obama is correct to focus virtually all his efforts on bringing the country back to economic stability. 
This conclusion does not come from Obama adulation and worship -- it's from a purely practical point of view.  No one person can do everything and the economy is what's directly affecting people right now.  It's what needs urgent fixing.  The daily press conferences, cabinet appointments and stated plan for the economy is exactly what should be happening.
I hope that at some point things will start to stabilize and Obama can turn his attention to the myriad other things that need to be done to rescue our country from the garbage dump into which Bush pushed us. 
And certainly one of the first things that he should tackle, after we have some economic healing, is restoring our consitutionally guaranteed civil liberties.  A big part of that is prosecuting those people in power who violated our rights and broke the law.  If sometime during Mr. Obama's first term he does not make this one of his priorities, then I will join the chorus of criticism. 
But for now, I'm happy with what he has chosen as his primary issue.