I'll believe that when I see it.

But the reality is that his comrades looted the country and did their utmost best to destroy not just America's Middle Class, but our core values of Truth, Justice, and the American way of life.

January 20th can't come soon enough - and then the war crimes trials at the Hague.

Bush doesn't want the job anymore. He'd leave tomorrow if he could. I believe that.

i'm not surprised that the one thing they do competently is get the fuck out of dodge. i think bush secretly regretted his re-election.

paraguay, here he comes!

After two years of Obamunism, we'll start to miss W'.

Haven't we all been saying for years that the best thing he could do is leave?

We'll be lucky if he just pilfers the White House silverware instead of looting another trillion from the Treasury for his buddies on his way out the back door.

In the mean time, from our own Seattle Weakly:

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/2008/11/the_question_for_obama_support.php

Hack.

Bush told us he was making good preparations for his wars, and for hurricane Katrina too. I expect a fiasco.

Agreed. I can't imagine he dreams of much more than sipping cold ones at the ranch, catching up on sports, and the occasional line of blow at this point. Sayanara, Cowboy.

This isn't nuclear fusion, people. W has always been overly concerned with his place in history and looking like a good guy. He knows acting like a petty schmuck on his way out will only add to his dismal public perception. And the faster a new administration is able to get going and right the ship of state, the better W apologists will be able to argue that W positioned the nation to be turned around by his successor. W absolutely needs improvement as fast as possible for their to be any hope of some brainwashed revisionist grad student to author a dissertation about W the Great.

Either way, you just know that some jackass (Dick Cheney?) is going to sneak into the White House by cover of darkness and remove all the O's from the computer keyboards before the inauguration.

I swear I know the difference between their, there, and they're.

Wait a sec, I read this earlier:

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/AP_Bush_to_leave_staggering_problems_1103.html

Which is basically the opposite of what Clinton did on his way out.

@9, that place in Crawford is the farthest thing imaginable from a "ranch", and it is exceedingly unlikely that Bush will ever set foot there again. I expect it to be sold fairly soon; it's served its purpose, which was to falsely persuade people that Bush was in fact a rancher, when of course he's been an office boy all his life. All that famous "brush clearing"? A total sham. You don't clear brush in high summer, unless you're putting on a show for the cameras.

Bush's retirement is going to be in the upper echelon of Dallas high society, with periodic jaunts to speak in front of conservative groups (but not outside the country; I don't think Bush will risk being arrested on war crime charges). Any vacations will be where they have always been for the Bushes, at the family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

@13 Ooops - I posted the wrong link:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081103/pl_nm/us_bush/print;_ylt=AllCXYErZDIQtYxEltXRjHwb.3QA

My guess is they'll pop all the O's off the keyboards.

You miss that that bit at the end about "mistakes of the past" is likely a direct jab at the outgoing Clinton Presidency, which reportedly trashed the WH offices in a sort of salted-earth campaign on the way out.

@ agreed. Weekly = lame. Weekly blog = fail. One comment...from dude's coworker.

Kind of stunning, actually.

After all that they've fucked up -- and they've surely fucked up almost everything they've touched -- it's sort of amazing that the only thing they get right is the part where they leave.

derr...@7

Fnarf, don't you think he will always be welcome in Saudi Arabia? The House of Saud have always adored his dad.

@16, 17: those stories turned out to be fabricated. The departing Clintonistas didn't steal the Ws or trash the offices, although Fox News was instructed to report that they had. I see that the impression stuck.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

@21 -- yeah, sure, he'll be welcome in Saudi. But why would he want to go? I suppose if he needs a little adulation fix.

that's why i prefer the naked truth.

At least Bush won't do stupid things like pardon felons, like Clinton did to Marc Rich.

I can't wait to spit on his grave.

@22: Perhaps so because I can't help but think I would have joined in.

Sure they'll make an orderly transition. They'll even take care of a few extra pardons, shred a bunch of pesky documents sitting around, maybe find some extra money to give away in no-bid contracts. Smooth and easy, like a poison pill coated in gelatin.

What a load of bullshit:

The White House is working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules aimed at protecting consumers and the environment, before President Bush leaves office in January.

The new rules would be among the most controversial deregulatory steps of the Bush era and could be difficult for his successor to undo. Some would ease or lift constraints on private industry, including power plants, mines and farms.

Those and other regulations would help clear obstacles to some commercial ocean-fishing activities, ease controls on emissions of pollutants that contribute to global warming, relax drinking-water standards and lift a key restriction on mountaintop coal mining.

Once such rules take effect, they typically can be undone only through a laborious new regulatory proceeding, including lengthy periods of public comment, drafting and mandated reanalysis.

Never trust anything a Republican says.

@26 - O RLY?

Do you haz cristl ball or wut?

The pardon list will be long.

Very very long.

Not that that will stop other countries from issuing arrest warrants.

@ 26

I'm sorry, when I read your post all I can see is the words "Scooter Libby."

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