Don't let the door hit you in the flight suit on the way out

As the excitement builds for 10 a.m. tomorrow, as the countdown clock on the right of the page reflects on the last hours of the eight year cluster$^@# that was the term of George W. Bush, let us take time to reflect on how much the man has given us...

Remember when...

He "won" an election by petitioning the Supreme Court to stop the counting of votes--votes that were eventually counted by independent agencies and showed Al Gore to have won by the standards set under Florida State Law.


He took over the White House with a Budget Surplus, and proceeded to rebuild the largest deficit in history through tax cuts for the wealthy and enormous federal spending.

He went on vacation for a month to reflect about "stem cells" after getting a memo stating "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

He kept reading "My Pet Goat" to a group of school children while the U.S. was under attack.

He vowed to capture Osama Bin Laden and brought him to justice before the World Court in...(oh, wait, part of that didn't happen)

He took us to War under false intelligence, against a country that hadn't attacked us, to finish the job his Daddy rightfully thought was too much of a quagmire for the U.S. to involve itself in, ending thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, and ruining our moral authority throughout the world.

Remember when he vowed to get whoever was behind the outing of a CIA agent to the fullest extent of the law, except, when it turned out to be his cronies, the full extent of the law became a presidential pardon for a dude named "Scooter"?

How about when his V.P. shot a guy in the face and waited 24 hours to call the police?

It was fun to watch, wasn't it, when footage came out of W. getting a briefing about the potential damage of Katrina days before the storm hit, reminding us of the fast, decisive action he took when the city of New Orleans started to drown.....(Um......maybe I'm remembering that wrong)

How about when his friends from Enron went to jail...turns out that was just a precursor to the collapse of the entire American financial system. The Dept. of the Treasury, the SEC, the "watchdogs" those are all executive branch offices, right?

In his farewell tour, which has seemed almost as long as his presidency, he's made statements (in front of cameras, pronouncing all the words) such as "I was not prepared for war" and that "Abu Ghraib Prison" was a "disappointment." I'm just leaving those alone.

About the only promise from the 2000 election season that I'm assuming W. kept was the one about not getting blow jobs in the oval office. Now, I wish he had spent his time getting hummers from Andrew Card rather than actually making attempting to make policy.

There's just so much more to remember, it brings a tear to my eye that I don't have time to go through it all...

Next, who knows where President Elect Obama will take us? He's left cleaning up a steaming pile of Bush droppings. Still, there can be only one direction from here. Good bye, farewell, and please, please get a ghostwriter for your "book." Never has there been a president more in need of a library....and a tutor.