But I note that George W. Bush is still President of the United States and Dick Cheney is still Vice President of the United States, and will be for 76 more days.
Do we think they feel chastised and will lay low for that time, or do you think that they have some plan to go out with an, um, bang?
Please share widely!
…for a transition of power that is a lot smoother, friendlier, and more gracious than the one they were subjected to.
this editorial sums it up quite well. Bush and Cheney are going to spend the last days of their term trying to put more disastrous policies in place. The Obama-Biden administration will have it’s hands full fixing things in 2009.
I can’t even believe you are bringing it up. Shows what you’re willing to ignore, I guess.
But thanks for being so utterly predictable.
You’re not exactly an endless source of surprises, yourself, geo999. The graceless condescension, for example, is utterly predictable.
Everything I’ve read says the hardship stories were all Bushie tall tales.
The Republican narrative in 1993 was that Clinton didn’t really belong in the White House. He was some kind of interloper trespassing on the fine Republican social set in DC. The 2001 hardship stories were merely part two of that narrative.
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p>By February, we’re sure to hear Republican pundits tutting about “the failed Obama Presidency”.
If you are too lazy to explain what you are talking about, what do you expect?
First, beyond the vandalism charges, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.
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p>One of the stories that came out of the Clinton-Bush transition was that the Clinton Administration was insistent that al Qaeda was a threat that the Bush Administration should keep an eye on. The incoming neo-cons, with their powerful appetite for regime change, ignored them. If you recall, Richard Clarke was unable even to convene a meeting on counter-terrorism. The incurious incompetents refused to deal with it.
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p>Maybe, then, what you’re saying is that the transition will be smoother because the Bush Administration will behave better.
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p>Hope so.
and perhaps blanket pardons for everyone in his adminstration — contingent on them not writing a tell-all book trashing Bush, of course.
Kevin, you just rained on my happy parade.
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p>I didn’t even think of that! OMG they are so going to do that. I can just see it!
But pardons are the only things he can do that cannot be undone (well, perhaps not the only things, but let’s not even go there).
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p>I think we should have a contest to see who can come closest to guessing the number of pardons he gives to Republican political figures.
It’s total random, seems high, but not unrealistically so. So, yeah, I’m guessing 50 attached to Republican political figures or their family or friends.
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p>I’d guess zero to people who actually deserve it…
“Honestly Mr. President, have you seen your approval ratings? Frankly there is little hope of ‘posterity’ viewing your presidency any differently. Obama gets to inherit your challenges, and they will probably be brought to conclusion on his watch. You won’t be remembered as the guy that ‘fixed’ any of the challenges you had to face, unfortunately.
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p>So look… seeing how as your legacy is in the tank anyway, we have some politically unpopular pardons for you to sign. You might as well give up on your legacy goals and fully commit to the continuance of our broader GOP goals… particularly the goals of staying out of jail.”
I guess we have to get that next war started stat!
There should be rioting in the streets. and I’m NOT talking about in Syria or Iran.