Bush’s last day

January 20, 2008

You may have noticed, on bumpers or t-shirts, the “1.20.09” slogan. It denotes, of course, Inauguration Day for Bush’s successor.

With that, I just thought I’d mention that after seven painful years, the Bush presidency will end exactly one year from today. It’s obviously something to look forward to.

It’s an awkward period in Democratic politics right now — a contentious presidential primary, a frustrated Democratic Congress — but looking at the light at the end of the tunnel, and knowing it’s probably not a train, might serve as a morale booster.

Let the countdown begin!

  • looking at the light at the end of the tunnel, and knowing it’s probably not a train, might serve as a morale booster.

    Are you sure it isn’t the flash of a Nuclear strike on Iran? I mean, given Cheney’s desires . . . cross your fingers. 😉

  • I worry that that light could, in fact, be a train. The McCain train, to be exact. We’ve got a lot of work to do between now and November, particularly if he is the nominee.

    But, with hard work, we can get there.

  • Ah, very thought brings as smile. Hopefully, 1.20.08 will mark the beginning of a long “transformational” period in which we restore the rule of reason and begin to repair the damage done by the rule of fear, unfounded beliefs, false values and invented realities. It’s going to be a long haul, but you know what they say about the journey of a thousand miles.

  • Nice milestone. However, we had another one in early November – one year to getting a president-elect not named George Bush.

    Also, bear in mind that the Wurlitzer’s blame-the-Dems programming is also kicking in. If you remember, everything bad that happened in dubya’s first term was blamed on the previous Clinton administration. Everything bad that happens from here on out will be blamed on the incoming Democratic administration, on the grounds that since they were running for office and Saying Bad Things about the Chimperor, then their Devious Liberal Mind Powers are responsible for all the current catastrophes.

  • Plus we can hope that Bush will not be able to do much more harm. Between being a lame duck, having among the lowest approval ratings in history, and a Congress controlled by the opposing party it will be hard for him to do very much. We are, however, still stuck with what he has started such as Iraq.

    Regarding the approval ratings, Bush is a couple months away from breaking the record for longest time a president has had less than 50% approval. Others have fallen lower than him in total numbers, but he will probably set the record for longest period of disapproval. The current record is Harry Truman with 38 months at under 50% approval:

    http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2713

  • What were they saying when Clinton was elected? Oh, yeah.

    The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned back on.

  • jimBOB @ 5 said:

    Everything bad that happens from here on out will be blamed on the incoming Democratic administration, on the grounds that since they were running for office and Saying Bad Things about the Chimperor, then their Devious Liberal Mind Powers are responsible for all the current catastrophes.

    I’d bet my next paycheck that the continuing collapse of the economy will be attributed to the markets’ losing confidence because of the prospect of a Democratic President.

  • The wise bettor will still give odds on Mr. Bush and Co. working tirelessly to make the trains run on time over the next year. Cheney wants to deliver a bombing to Iran, and he may need to be run out on a rail to prevent such catestrophic mischief. Come 1.20.09 we need to be furiously pushing Bush and Cheney from the WH premises. -Kevo

  • What were they saying when Clinton was elected? Oh, yeah.

    Yep. If not 2008…
    Then choo-choo in 2010:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Revolution

    Clinton was in office only two years!
    The honeymoon of “don’t stop thinking about tomorrow” didn’t last long.

    The country went sour on them faster than you can say “midterms 1994.”
    And so… 40 years of Democratic leadership went down the toilet.
    Got to wonder just a bit how that happened eh?
    The biggest train crash in the history of the party…
    Got to wonder just a bit….

    Take a look at the list of Republicans elected in 94 at the bottom of the page.
    I call it:
    Nightmare on Clinton street…
    And yeah: I pan that movie.

    Thank you Big Dog and Hilary!
    Heck of a job….

    (O.S. [= off-screen] FX roaring train)

  • On 1.20.09, Bush will lock himself in a White House bathroom and insist that God tells him that he’s still the President.

    The Republicans will quickly produce the “Presidential Term-Extension Act” which Harry Reid will reluctantly bring to the Senate floor for a vote.

  • We (and investigative reporters) need to remember the tremendous power wielded by the President and Vice-President on regulation and other bureaucratic parts of the government. With just a short executive order and no input from Congress, massive changes can be put in place. For example, a few years ago a couple of words were changed in regulations related to mountain-top removal mining that allowed the debris to be dumped in rivers and streams instead of treated like waste.

    I hope that newspapers and other investigators will be setting up “Executive Order Watch” departments to look for final year shenanigans.

  • I wrote the following this morning on a David Ignatius column on the “coming recession” over at the WaPo. It truly is what I think about the next 12 months and the Republican responsibility for the mess we’re in.

    “Maybe the government and the media didn’t “know” about the “coming recession”, but, believe me, Main Street has sure known about it for a few years now. We’re the ones who see the empty storefronts for rent and the houses for sale for months on end.

    I’ve been worried about the economy for a few years now. I’m no genius but I can see that endless tax cuts while running up huge government deficits with an endless war half-way across the world wasn’t helping matters. The price of oil, for instance, has gone sky-high as a consequence of the war. And, the billions of dollars spent on the war could have been spent here, on the needs of the American people.

    And now Bush wants to give $800 per person as a “stimulus package”. I think most of that will go to paying for the higher gas and other day-to-day costs for people who have been hurt by the demented policies of the last seven years.

    And, while of course I want a Democratic president, I’m of half a mind to let the Republicans win the White House and let THEM take the responsibility for the last seven years THEIR political party has wrought on the American people.”

  • And to think, I received my BACKWARDS BUSH CLOCK when there were 723 days left…..gee, how time does fly when you are having fun! Bring it ON and let the countdown go swiftly.

  • Hallelulah 1 year left!~!!
    However, if the American people are stupid enough to elect anoother Republican, they deserve what they get.

  • Phobes…

    The $800 per person is quite brilliant.
    If you remember, the beginning of Bush’s term he gave a tax break to wee folk.
    (That the wealthy got a huge break didn’t matter. The wee folk were sated by their sliver.)
    And everyone was happy!

    Very shortly everyone will be happy again: Thank you Mr. President!
    So what he has done is bookend his 8 years with “gifts” to the wee folk.
    It’s a nice way to control perceptions.
    And it is a nice way to give the Republican candidate a firm leg up going into the general election.

    Well played Mr. Bush.
    Well played.

    And given that Iraq seems to be improving…
    Things really seem to be coming up roses for the Republicans.

    Lastly, anybody who thinks McCain’s notorious record as a flip-flopper will gain traction…
    Is forgetting who controls perceptions in this country.
    And they are also greatly over estimating the critical thinking skills of “wee folk”:

    http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2008/01/caucus_me.html

  • I hope that there will be celebrations around the country celebrating NO MORE BUSH! I want to attend one…….

  • Tick. Tick. Tick.

    Can you hear the ticking, Bu$h?

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    Can your inherently-evil administration hear the ticking?

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    Have you noticed that the ticking is beginning to get louder?

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    Have you noticed that it’s getting closer?

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    The ticking that you’re hearing is the cadence of doom, Bu$h.

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    YOUR doom, Bu$h. Your administration’s doom. Your legacy’s doom.

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    It is the clanking of the chain that will be wrapped around your relevance as it is cast into the depths of the sea.

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    It is the forging of the cage that you will be placed in for your crimes against the Constitution; against the People; against the World.

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    Eternal doom approaches, Bu$h. You can run; you can spin; you can squeal and pontificate—but you cannot hide. It approaches; ever nearer by the second, and ever more ominous each moment than the moment before. It is coming—and it is invincible.

    Tick. Tick. Tick……………………………..

  • The next step is the special prosecutor that will work for many years prosecuting all the crimes that the Bush malAdministration has committed. I am for full funding of this endeavor for as many years as it takes. I am looking forward to Bush’s flight to the Hague to stand trial as the War Criminal, along with his butt buddy, Dick Cheney.

  • It seemed like we would never get to the point where we could say, “only one more year,” but given what Bush and his minions can do in the blink of an eye, I think the potential is there for this country to have a very bad year, and for Bush to put into place things that will take more than a stroke of a Democratic president’s pen to undo.

    If you’ve been reading the papers, you would note that the violence in Iraq is on the upswing; now that it’s clear that the Iraqi government will not be taking advantage of the breathing room our men and women gave them over the last year, forces within the country have run out of patience and are taking matters into their own hands. This is not good news for them, and it is not good news for us.

    The economy is a significant concern. Today, I read that the Bush administration does not plan to give lower-income individuals and families anything because they don’t pay taxes. Yes, I know the argument – if it’s a tax rebate, and someone doesn’t pay taxes, there’s nothing in the pot for them. However, the working poor do pay sales taxes, a myriad of licensing and registration fees, and these expenses hit them harder than the rest of us. They are the people most likely to put whatever money they would get from the government right back into the economy, which, if that is the goal of a rebate, would seem to make this segment of the population an important part of the plan.

    Who knows how bad it will be by November, but one thing is for sure: allowing another set of Republicans into the WH would, in all liklihood, be a death blow to pretty much everything that matters. You could forget about getting out of the war, plan on seeing us get into another one – or more than one – say goodbye permanently to the rights the current administration has illegally stolen from us, and prepare to lose the ones they are currently working to take away, see the overturning of Roe v. Wade to protect the unborn, while that same Supreme Court dispenses with the charade that this country does not torture, see for the first time the disappearance of “average” citizens whose only crimes will be thinking they had the right to speak out against their government, expect the regulation of the internet such that sites like this one would be prohibited, see the further intrusion of religion into our daily lives, see the continuation of corporate greed at the expense of the consumer, watch the middle class vanish completely, forget about health insurance that works for the individual, see energy costs rise, and the economy continue to fail.

    No.

    With the half a mind I have left, I will fight tooth and nail to make sure that Republicans are kept as far away from the WH as it is possible for them to be.

  • The REASON we’ve had SEVEN painful years of Bush/Cheney is because the Dems were BLIND to the oncoming train in TWO elections! And they seem just as blind this time!!!

    If Hillary wins the Dem nomination, she cannot pick up enough votes to win the general election. She will probably lose to McCain. McCain can pick up the Independents that she cannot.

    So how much will REALLY change?

    As usual, the Dems are asleep at the wheel if they think Hillary can win. She is HATED by Republicans everywhere – and how many independents do you know that will vote for her?

    I hope the Dems wake up soon. But they haven’t for 8 long years, why would they now?

    Clinton as the Dem nominee just makes it easier for McCain to win. And then we’ll get to hear 4 years of the Clinton “whine” about being defeated by the Republican Smear Machine – that the Clinton’s emulate so well as they send out one after another email smear campaign about Obama.

    If Obama gets the Dem nod, he CAN pick up the Independents and CAN win the general election and we’d actually have change.

    I hope he gets that chance.

  • I’m not sure I can survive another whole year, especially if it’s a year like the last several months have been with the nastiness of the primary process. I am very sad for our country.

  • WHO SAID THERE WAS NO GOD! THANK YOU LORD, JUST GET US THROUGH THE NEXT 12 MONTHS WITHOUT BU$H COMING OUT OF HIS COMA.

  • Good riddance (in advance) to that sniveling bastard.
    As a rule, I think that hating people- especially those whom I don’t know- is ignorant. For Bush and Dick, I make an exception.
    If karma truly exists, I think we can expect a dramatic demise for both of them.

  • We have a 2008 calendar on the last days of Bush that my moderate Republican husband bought to track our social engagements plus his engagements on this year. I was quite surprised he would be so public about his feelings since it hangs just outside the library where we put a table of bridge occasionally. The end can’t come soon enough for me. I hope the American people have better sense to pick a strong leader that will be respected by the world and US citizens.

  • The hell of it is the shrub has done so much damage nobody in their right mind would want to follow him. Another year we’ll be lucky if there is a US to elect a president of…

  • “… looking at the light at the end of the tunnel, and knowing it’s probably not a train….”

    But if the Shrub has his way it could be the Rapture.

  • It is my sincere desire to see Bush removed from office prior to the end of his term.

    Also, I want Bush to live in infamy (officially) and that his transgressions against Americans, our nation and the world be prominently represented in history books; thereby making the rest of his life a living hell for him, his family and his supporters.

  • Hitler

    Stalin

    Pol Pot

    Bush

    any arguments ?

    although the three front runners on this worst-ever list are animals and Genocidal Maniacs, they at least possessed cunning and native intelligence. so maybe W doesn’t belong on this list: he’s actually too stupid.

    let me ask again: since this guy has committed and authorized a long list of felonies, constitutional crimes and war crimes, should impeachment be off the table ? just because it’s his last year ? if i had a heinous list of crimes i was busted for, but only had a year to live because of some terminal illness, would you let me off the hook because it’s too much effort to prosecute?

    the loyal opposition are the real criminals of the last seven years; not the bush adminstration.

  • Only one year left gives little comfort when reminded of the damage a war criminal can do in just 365 days. Impeachment hearings should start immediatly for bush and cheney. If, god forbid, there is another terrorist attack on this country, bush will declare himself el presidente par vida if he isn’t stopped.

  • Dennis @9 said:

    I’d bet my next paycheck that the continuing collapse of the economy will be attributed to the markets’ losing confidence because of the prospect of a Democratic President.

    I’m still waiting for someone to blame it on the Dems forcing Bush to raise the minimum wage. I’ve never seen the Republicans so off-script.

  • Democrats and Republicans want to be seen as doing something going into the November elections. As for the Bush Administration, its goal is to kick the recession into the next Administration and leave the blame for it, and the responsibility for cleaning it up, there.

    In other words, Bush is trying to do with the economy what he has already done with Iraq. He creates the mess and then he leaves it for others to deal with after he is gone.

  • Bush has proved one thing, that the country can survive seven years with no leardership. Less just hope we can make it for one more year.

  • Thanks CB, and countless thanks for keeping us informed, focused and amused as the countdown continues.

    [Applause]

  • On this weekend, it is apt to say regarding the year remaining in this disastrous Bush presidency,
    “Free at last,free at last, great God almighty, to be free at last.”

  • This day could not come too soon. It’s been a scary 7 years. Let’s hope and pray that our next leader will be good for our nation. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE.

  • It should have ended sooner. It still could, and would, if the Democrats weren’t such pussies.

    Cowards and traitors, all of them.

  • Russia is the second largest supplier of oil on the planet, the Saudis are number one. After Saddam was removed they lost one of there sources and moved to Iran to fill the void. In exchange they also negotiated contracts to build multiple nuclear power plants in Iran. Russia is well aware of the Cheney plan for the Casapian Sea pipeline which will be cheaper to build if the US goes through Iran. Iran does not want to negotiate with the US on this pipeline. Cheney wants regime change, but Russia does not because it’s not in there economic interest. Thats the real deal !
    Russia reneged on contracts with BP oil UK for new Siberian wells and also renegotiated contracts for existing BP production wells in Russia for less money. BP was not happy and teamed up with US oil interests for the Caspian Pipeline deal now under construction.

    I read this on another web site. The person that wrote it said in a follow-up that he followed the oil and the money. and found this. Sounds to me like it could be true!

  • From the San Fransisco Bay Guardian:
    “…In fact, the Federal Reserve Board’s most recent “Survey of Consumer Finances” supplement on high-income families shows that in 1998, the richest 1 percent of households owned 38 percent of the nation’s wealth. The top 5 percent owned almost 60 percent of the wealth.

    “We are much more unequal than any other advanced industrial country,” New York University economics professor Edward Wolff told Third World Traveler.

    Cheney’s infamous, secretive, industry-laden energy task force produced what can be boiled down to two main recommendations, “lower the environmental bar and pay corporations to jump over it,” Werbach wrote.

    For example, Congress has promised $3 billion in tax cuts to mining corporations to help them access natural gas embedded in underground coal deposits in Georgia’s Powder River Basin. The Bureau of Land Management has calculated that miners will waste a full 700 million gallons of publicly owned water a year in the process – thereby sucking the region’s underground aquifers dry and decimating local farms and wildlife.

    The Bush administration’s Healthy Forests Initiative essentially entails granting logging companies access to old-growth trees – and then subsidizing them for brush clearing. And even the giant sequoias former president Bill Clinton sought to protect, by creating a 327,000-acre national monument in the southern Sierra Nevada just four years ago, are at risk for being logged at a rate of 10 million board-feet of lumber a year – a higher rate than allowed on surrounding national forest lands – in the name of “forest management.”

    When Bush took office in January 2001, he said tackling the country’s energy crisis would be a top priority. The United States faced nationwide oil and natural gas shortages, and a series of electrical blackouts were rolling across California. The president established the National Energy Policy Development Group and appointed former Halliburton CEO Cheney as its head.

    One of the big issues on the table was oil, which accounted for 40 percent of the nation’s energy supply and provided fuel for the vast majority of the country’s transportation – as well as its expansive war machine. And for the first time in history, the United States had become reliant on foreign imports for more than 50 percent of its oil supply.

    But rather than lay the groundwork for converting the economy to alternative, renewable sources, the task force’s report, later released by Bush as the “National Energy Policy” report in May 2001, promoted a central goal of “mak[ing] energy security a priority of our trade and foreign policy.” In other words, Cheney’s group wanted to find additional sources of oil overseas and ensure U.S. access to that oil – whatever it took.

    Documents recently obtained from the task force as the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by public interest group Judicial Watch indicate Cheney and his colleagues had their sights on the black gold under the Iraqi desert well before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

    In July 2003 the Commerce Department finally turned over records that included “a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries, and terminals, as well as two charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and ‘Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts,’ ” according to Judicial Watch’s subsequent press release. There were also similar maps and charts for Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The documents were dated March 2001.

    It all begins and ends with impeachment. How much more damage can thuis administration cause before Jan. 9, ’09?? From the daily Kos: Back in 2005, George Bush held a news conference in which he proposed military intervention.

    The United States may need to quarantine regions of the country if localized outbreaks of a pandemic flu occur, US President George Bush said today during a press conference in Washington, DC.

    Bush suggested expanding presidential power over state-run National Guard operations to implement such quarantines in the event of a pandemic.

    By executive order (April 1, 2005) pandemic influenza was added to the Public Health Service Act of 2003 as a quarantine disease….” Using the military to quarantine segments of the country??? Could that lead to martial law?

    Everyday I live in fear of my president…of what he might do next. While like everyone else I’m waiting for the next election to save me from this fear.

    There is no longer equality under the rule of law and only impeachment would have reinstated it. The impeachment hearings would have made this clear but Pelosi refuses to even have hearings. There is no light at the end of the tunnel. There is only a dim smoky fog. It will be up to the dems to restore the light.

  • This presidency would end sooner, if our Congress wasn’t made up of a pack of cowardly, venal idiots.

    Impeach Cheney. Then impeach Bush. Then take our country back from the corporations who’ve usurped it.

  • a contentious presidential primary

    Give me a break…when is a primary not contentious?
    Let’s stop talking like the Villagers.

  • I started my journal of events this yr. with a song by an English band called Sunfreakz the name of that song is “Counting down the Days.”

  • ***Political thugs***Sorry, I lose respect at mass murder, war profiteering., lying, treason and spitting on the constitution.

  • If this country can survive eight years of George Bush, we can survive anything.
    MM 46

    You may have hit on Bush’s Legacy. Can’t you hear him during his final speech:

    “Through eight years of stratergical mismanagement I tested Umuricuh and proved that Umuricuh is stronger than a bunch of criminals. I launched an endless war on a psychologicalistic state but the military still remains. I tried to eradertize the Constitutional piece of paper, but it could not be torn. Like a piece of toilet paper. I loaded this country’s administrative branches with incompentical people but those branches did not break…”

  • As I get older, I really wish that time would slow down. Not in this instance. Please hurry and get his ass out of there. I cringe whenever I hear his voice.

  • Thanks for the note. I sure hope that the world can survive for another 366 days without our managing to start World War IIII.

  • Who volunteers to organize the party?

    Here my idea – we have the biggest party ever all around the world the day Busch leaves office.

  • Who volunteers to organize the party?

    Here the idea – we have the biggest party ever all around the world the day Busch leaves office.

  • The Bush legacy will end up being, not only an endless war, but the economic ruin of this country for some time to come. The current crop of Republican candidates are so spineless that they are pushing each other aside to show how much each agrees with “Victory in Iraq” and the Bush policies. They all want to cut your taxes even more and continue the myth that we can have services at home, war abroad and it’s all free, free, free.

  • Of course the republicans hate Hillary! She is a scrapper and will fight them tooth and nail. Why would they not like to have a lesser foe? I really do like Barack but I think the republicans will have him for lunch, lick their chops, and look around for the rest of us.

  • If I ruled the world:
    * No Presidential Library
    * No Secret Service protection
    * No pension
    * No Marine 1 or Air Force 1 for his getaway….commercial will do
    * No place to run to, no place to hide

  • KarenZipdrive :
    I truly agree. I am not into hate and I don’t like words like ‘evil’ but for these rodents, its an exception.

  • Boosh/Cheney has irreparably damaged America. Every single thing they have done has been wrong.

    It will take more than four years to recover, and the GOP has decided that destroying America is the right thing to do.

    At a certain point, they will invade Iran. They want the money that comes from an unregulated hot war market, and they don’t want to wait eight more years for those profits.

    Obama isn’t going to change anything. He already owes his campaign to big pharma, the insurance industry, and the credit card industry. It’s going to be hard for him to forget his ‘stupid mistakes’ with wheeler-dealers in the past if he gets the nomination because Rupert Murdoch will make sure America eats that news for breakfast every day until next November.

    We will have a Dem President, but only one who will work in compliance with the Iron Triangle. And the media and the lobbying industries will still be pro-Republican.

    As for the candidate of ‘hope’, he better “hope” he’ll get elected, then he better “hope” he can figure out what the hell he’s going to do as President – because he sure doesn’t have a clue now.

    If we are going to have a status-quo president, I think Hillary is the best choice.

    All the non-status quo candidates have been blacked out by Murdoch.

    Welcome to the new World Order. Get in line for your Universal ID, bar code, and chip implant. The President who wins on the platform of “change” will start planning the invasion of Iran by 2010 at the latest.

  • “Between being a lame duck, having among the lowest approval ratings in history, and a Congress controlled by the opposing party it will be hard for him to do very much.”

    Let’s not overlook a few other things. Bush is probably crazy (witness his giggles and smirks over the bloodshed and dying in Iraq), he considers himself “the Decider” and accepts no opposition, and the Democrats are a bunch of wimps that posture and then give Bush what he wants.

    He still has some time left to possibly ignite WWIII and destroy this nation by bombing Iran. We’re not out of the woods yet by a long shot.

    Write your Democrats and tell them to develop some spine.

  • W Bush took office January 20, 2001.
    A barrel of oil was $26.00
    He squandered a huge budget surplus and turned it into a huge deficit.
    We are living in the world that Bush created for us.
    I’m running out of Vaseline.

  • Halleluhja….let the count down begin. The rest of the world also will breeze easier. Unless his clone McCaine takes the White House. Americans, we can’t let that happen, can we. If I absolutely have to, I could live with Romney. The right thing is for all Americans to vote in the Clintons. We need some fun, we need a break, we need a rest from republican bigotry.

  • Anyone who has watched how this retard operates KNOWS that there is NO WAY he will willingly give up the power he has “worked” so hard at grabbing!!!!

  • THE ONLY WAY I COULD SEE ANY LIGHT WOULD BE IF THEY ARE PUT IN JAIL AND LOSE THE MONEY THEY STOLE!

  • THEN WE HAVE THE CEO’S OF THE FORTUNE 500. UNTIL THEY STOP TAKING 90% OF THE PROFITS HOME AS COMPENSATION IT’S HARD TO GET REAL EXCITED

  • SO TO SEE THEM SET THE COUNTRY BACK 100 YEARS KILL, DISAPEAR, TORTURE AND THE LIKE. THEN TO SEE THEM RIDE OFF INTO THE SUNSET NO THAT DOES SOUND LIKE A WIN FOR DECENT PEOPLE OF THE US

  • TO GEORGE,

    YOUR RIGHT THERE IS NO WAY HE WOULD EVER GIVE UP POWER HE IS BEING FORCED TO!!!

  • I hope when he leaves office he is haunted by every person whom he cheated, allowed to die needlessly on 911, from the fake iraq war he instigated. I pray, he hears thier screams as they died horriffic deaths needlessly. I hope, when all is said and done, we see him in federal prison, tried for treason, war crimes, his assets frozen, given back to every person whom he stole it from. I hope he is impeached, disgraced, that Americans see him as the bastard he really is. What a legacy you leave behind. Disgraceful.

  • What a difference a year can make, eh? Of course, we could still shorten his time in office if some Dems would grow a spine…

    IMPEACH
    The dream that spines are made of!

  • Woohooo!!! We might make it through the worst presidency in history, yet!

    I’m not saying any of the other talking bobbleheads that are looking to replace him are going to be great by any stretch, but they can’t possibly be worse than what we’ve had the last 7 years.

  • “…Unless the Bush regime is driven from office and held accountable for their crimes a precedent will be set that may be irreversible for all time.

    This precedent will be one where no matter the action there will be no consequences. If George Bush cannot be impeached for torture, war crimes, treason, and corruption – what action by future presidents can ever be deemed impeachable? What action could a future president ever undertake that would be considered a crime if the blatantly criminal behavior of the Bush regime is never held accountable? Therein lies the danger of allowing Bush to continue his term unchallenged, and un-investigated. To allow Bush to finish his term without being brought to justice lessens the possibility of ever holding any of his regime accountable for their crimes or any future regime…
    The 2008 election distraction is a dangerous one. Some people allowed the 2006 elections to be a dangerous distraction too. People thought that a democratic win would bring an end to the Iraq war, and an end to the fascistic direction the Bush regime was leading this country in, and what has happened since? How much has changed in just over a year? What if all the people who put so much energy into that election instead focused their energies on pushing for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney? Where would that movement be now? We will never know because the American public was once again fooled into thinking that an election was the cure for the Bush regime plague, and here we are again at this same crossroads. The truth is that whoever is elected whether they are republican, (and we already know that means four more years of the Bush agenda), or democrat, (popularly thought of as the lesser of the two evils), these newly elected leaders and their cabinets will start at the very same place where the Bush regime left off. This is a truly frightening prospect. We the people must focus our energies on the repudiation of ALL that the Bush regime stands for and has done!” – excerpt from an article by Cheryl Abraham, http://tinyurl.com/38gzlh

  • I pray every night for a Sirhan Sirhan, Jack Ruby, Charles Manson,etc to solve a problem this country has> Since Mother nature won’t co-operate, god won’t co-operate, maybe some deranged nut case will, put Cheney six feet under,

    And to think the sucker that tossed the greande at Bush threw a dud, I HOPE HE WAS BEHEADED FOR HIS TEDIOUS MISS.

  • Obama not only does he talk about hope — a lot — he talks about the
    importance of talking about hope. He talks about how he hopes to talk more about talking
    about the importance of talking about hope.
    He touts unity the same way. If we all buy into his “message of hope,” he explains, then everybody
    — blacks and whites, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, lions and gnus, bears and park
    rangers, Superman and Lex Luthor — will be united!

  • Don’t impeach! Dick could then legally start a war with Iran (or Venezuela, or Mexico or Canada or Alaska).

    (Now, sing to the tune of 99 bottles of beer: 364 days of Bush are left, 364 days, now it’s past midnight and there’s no new war, 363 days of Bush are left.)

  • So many things about America have been shredded by GWB. Can he complete the job on the economy in the time left?

  • …

    So…One year from today, a new President takes office.
    Here’s The Letter I’ve prepared for the guy who is in there now.
    Have I left anything out?
    Let me know if you have any additions, comments, or whatnot…
    (i will not include your name in the edited re-formed version)
    …

    THE LETTER…

    Dear Mr. George W. Bush (aka Mr. “President”),

    I feel it is necessary for me to be honest with my thoughts and feelings about the vicious wake you and your administration have created…

    Lest you forget:

    – Invasion of Iraq based on lies
    – Fear Mongering
    – Xenophobia
    – Nearly 4,000 dead American soldiers
    – Hundreds of Thousands of Dead innocent Iraqi’s
    – Devastated and Broken Families
    – Shock and Awe
    – Abu Ghraib
    – “…a grave and growing danger”
    – Thousands of detainees without charges
    – The stripping of Habeas Corpus
    – Torture. Waterboarding. “Aggressive interrogation techniques”
    – War for Oil
    – War for Middle East Hegemony
    – Theocracy
    – Gutting Clean Air Act restrictions
    – Making jokes such as “Nope…no weapons over here. They must be over there. Nope…no weapons over there! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!”
    – The Mushroom Cloud Scare
    – Duct Tape
    – Ghost Weapons of Mass Destruction…Then changing it to a Fight for Iraqi Freedom and Democracy
    – “We know for a fact that Saddam Hussein has reconstituted his WMD program”
    – “Iraq is an imminent threat”
    – The outing of Valerie Plame because of her husband’s (Joe Wilson) report of the Uranium he did not find in Africa
    – The commuting (i.e. pardoning) of Scooter Libby
    – The Niger connection
    – The Downing Street Memo
    – PTSD = Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    – Record high suicides among returning vets
    – Fox ‘News’ (Faux News)
    – Deadly security contractors
    – K Street. Jack Abramoff
    – Enron. Ken Lay
    – The Fallujah Massacre
    – The Haditha massacre
    – Signing Statements
    – Defying United Nations resolutions
    – Walter Reed Hospital
    – 195,000 Homeless Vets
    – Providing Israel with new Cluster Bombs to attack Lebanese towns
    – Your Neocon Puppeteers/Engineers/Mouthpieces. Donald Rumsfeld. Paul Wolfowitz. Richard Perle. Doug Feith. Ari Fleischer. John Bolton. Paul Bremer. Karl Rove.
    – The ‘Patriot Act’
    – Domestic Spying
    – “The War on Terror”
    – “The Axis of Evil”
    – Afghanistan
    – The bombing of a wedding ceremony in Afghanistan
    – Bagram massacre
    – Bombing media offices
    – Guantanamo Bay. Indefinite detention
    – Kangaroo courts
    – Tipping the economy into what may become a financial tsunami
    – Corporatocracy
    – 300% rise in gas prices
    – Exxon’s successive highest quarterly earnings in the history of Corporations
    – “We must stay the course”…flip-flop (lie) to…”We’ve never been Stay the Course”
    – Presidential orders to ignore Geneva Conventions
    – Illegal National Security Agency wiretapping
    – Katrina Ignorance and Abandonment
    – Disaster Capitalism. Haliburton. KBR. Blackwater. Mercenaries
    – One-Man-One-Woman (euphemized Discrimination)
    – Kidnapping foreign citizens on foreign lands
    – Maher Arar (the Canadian who was mistakenly detained, sent to Syria, and tortured…then released. Now he talks about it)
    – Central Intelligence Agency squabbles and defections
    – Inciting sectarianism
    – Alberto Gonzales. Firing attorneys for political reasons
    – Nepotism
    – Destruction of the torture tapes
    – Looting the National Museum of Mesopotamia
    – Borrowing more money than all former presidents combined
    – Telling the Navy to ignore a law forbidding mid and low-frequency sonar testing in the Channel Islands and near Catalina
    – Iran saber rattling
    – The NIE disregard
    – The Chavez coup
    – Denial of global warming
    – Rejecting the Kyoto Protocol
    – Pervez Musharraf (dictator) support and funding
    – Marginalization of the United Nations
    – False democracy promises
    – Intransparency
    – The barbaric Death Penalty
    – “The Crusade”
    – “I’m a War President!”
    – Clash of civilizations
    – Discrimination
    – Homophobia
    – Hypocrisy
    – Hubris
    – False Confident Swagger
    – Faux Cowboy Mannerisms
    – Intellectual incuriosity
    – “Fool me once, shame on…” (aka your loud Freudian slip)
    – Two Stolen Elections. (Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, Clayton Roberts, Ken Blackwell voter disenfranchisement and dismissals).
    – The use of your religion to manipulate others
    – Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney and Dick Cheney!
    – Fear Fear Fear

    Furthermore…

    You have corroded the hearts and minds of my family in Texas (and in the South) and ruined my relationship with them…because they were fooled by you…and they still support you and your vicious ways…while they do not trust me.

    You are not only the WORST president ever…
    You, Adolph Hitler, and Dick Cheney are 3 of the most disgusting creatures to have ever walked this planet…EVER!!!

    About one year from today (next January, 2009)…when the next President takes office…I may look forward to telling you (if you aren’t already gone):

    “Get out of here you Vile Fear-Mongering Liar!
    SCRAM !!!”

    With amorous intentions,

    Lucus 🙂

    P.S. Oh! Hey George! I almost forgot something…
    Thank You for showing us a model of who NOT to become…
    (i.e. You represent the ultimate Failure of Humanity)

    …

  • Let’s make him host of TV Bloopers or Guantanamo prison guard handing out the fresh underwear..

  • Bush will be gone, but we will be living with the results for a generation. By that I am referring to his supreme court nominees.
    Heaven help us if we elect another Republican. All of them will nominate a right wing idealog.

  • Yeah, like I’m sure something will be different. Whether Dumcraps or Repulsicns run the show on that day, it is all downhill. More crypto fascism. Fewer to no rights. Basically a big fat joke. Thanks to your do nothing Dumcraps who were supposedly going to clean house in Washington. Have fun!

    Need I remind you, when some wanted Bush’s head ona pike after the Patriot Act got put into place, y’all waited for your Dumcraps to fix the situation. they did not.

    You suck.

  • There are, unfortunately, a few ways in which Bush is fairly intelligent, although they all have to do with political “Strategery” rather than actually governing. And we have been warned: when he was entertaining a few GOP VIPs last summer at his vacation villa (that he calls a “ranch”), he told them that he was going to set things up so that the next President could not “avoid this country’s destiny.” Which of course means having to stay in Iraq long enough to let Chimpy escape the blame for it. There’s a reason why we’ve suddenly heard so much about the Viet Nam “backstab” theory in the last few months. In the words of the Squire of Gothos in Star Trek, “We were winning! We woulda won if you hadn’t stopped the game! You never let me have any fun!”

    So first we got the “surge,” which bought a little temporary strategic success, enough to justify claims of “progress.” Next will come the ironclad treaty with the “government” of Iraq vowing to keep our troops there until the government is able to defend its own borders or Hell freezes over, whichever comes first.

  • one year too many..as far as I am concerned. God only knows what kind od damage he and his cronies can wreak in one year!!! We must be watchful,and very careful.

  • Maybe Laura Bush will run in eight years! Ugghhhh….I think I just threw up a little in my mouth. Sorry for that mental picture.

  • Jan. 21, 2009? Bush’s LAST DAY?
    Well only IF he doesn’t manufacture an “emergency” and suspend the congress and the courts and declare martial law and himself in charge of ALL federal, state, and local governments.
    “National Security Presidential Directive 51”, “Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20”, Executive order 13301, among others.
    Don’t be surprised if on January 21,2009, instead of swearing in a new president, we, instead, have armed Blackwater Security patrolling the streets and Bush hunkering down in the White House until he dies of old age or forgets what he’s supposed to be doing after Cheney does.

  • Sorry, but this is a sad substitute for what should have happened – BushCo (and Cheny) impeached!!! We shouldn’t have to wait another year for these criminals to be removed from office.

  • Oh and thanks for closing our borders and keeping our country safe by invading Iraq. Job well done.

  • My group of friends here in Dallas have started planning a “Bye Bye Bush Bash” on 1.20.09. No matter who is the next president, the Inauguration ceremony will likely be overshadowed by Bush’s departure which is long overdue in our hearts and minds. As happy as we’ll be that day, I can’t help but think about how our children will look back on his presidency and weep.

  • It has been (or will be from Inauguration Day) eight years of bloody hell (and that isn’t even taking Iraq into account. The lying, the stealing, the political doling out of billions of dollars to Bush cronies, while the middle class sink into oblivion. It’s absolutely appalling what this President has done to this country, both economically and the World’s view of The United States. Health care is a mess with no SCHIP relief for those who can’t afford it. Hopefully we’ll see some progress in the country’s growth and prosperity before our lives (I’m 54) are over. – JS

  • Hillary is a liar. She COULD have stuck to the issues and been a scrapper, but instead she chose the same old “policies of personal destruction” that she claims were used against Bill. Then the Clintons dragged race into it.

    Barack has TRIED to keep the tone civil as a debate CAN be, so as not to destroy his own party.

    Barack has class (something the Clintons can’t claim) and is very able to fight the Republicans – and doing so will not fracture the Dems.

    Enough dynasties in Washington. Time for a new day and a new way forward. Barack IS that way forward.

    Although I’m not convinced the Dems have the guts to do something new. Sometimes I think they’d rather fail than move forward. I’m hoping they’ll show some courage for a change.

  • Want to start celebrating, but have one fear: What if there is another terrorist attack and Bush uses emergency powers to stop the elections?

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