I am as big a fan of Obama as anyone else, but I don't think the change he promised is gonna come.

It will be nice to watch Spandex clad DOJ officials pontificating on pilates to prisoners in the penitentiary, or all sorts of bad and ridiculous things happening to the Bushistas, as they should be, but it more likely that Anne Hathaway will notice my wit and charm on these pages and propose to me.

I would pay serious money (OK, I'd have to put it on my charge card -- who has actual real greenbacks these days?) to see Dick Cheney as an aerobics instructor. Ah, now that I've got a mental picture, maybe not -- at least not on a full stomach and maybe not if I want to retain my sight.

Lieberman denied Senate pilates privileges was Josh Marshall's snark about his slap on the wrist and now this. Hey - I like pilates. And no - Dick Cheney needs to TAKE aerobics and pilates, not teach it. Too funny!

Does this mean if I see an Alaska Maaaaaaaaa-v'rick in spandex in a lunge position, maybe it's NOT photoshopped?

You laugh, but that is exactly how it is done. I would hope that the new administration is sufficiently versed in bureaucratic maneuvering to know this. No one loses their job, but all this burrowing accomplishes is preserving a paycheck.

Maybe we could partner with Thailand and have their general drop snakes on Liebermann, the Mavericks and the Bush appointees.

The incoming Congress should hold hearings into the abuses of the Bush Administration. If Bush has pardoned people, they should be deposed anyway, and if they lie in the deposition, they should be tried for perjury.

The least that should happen is that they should all be disbarred.

It's clearly time to start thinking up jobs:

- Mule dropping retriever, working the trail to the bottom of the Grand Canyon.

- Assistant to the same.

I think, whatever they do, they should be required to wear the Hello Kitty Armband of Shame.

Pilates classes in Federal pens? Perhaps, it might be better, if they could be instructors in "Picking up the soap" seminars. Then, they could be recipients of what they have done to our nation.

I've been spending my winters in Thailand lately; for the most part they are a very practical people.

Maybe we could partner with Thailand and have their general drop snakes on Liebermann, the Mavericks and the Bush appointees.

Tomeck? Dropping snakes on snakes is something I'd expect out of a Das Base 'vangee....

We could have a contest: What's the most demeaning and meaningless work we could assign to embedded Bushies?

More seriously (and diabolically), Obama has pledged to go through federal programs "line by line" and eliminate unsuccessful or outdated ones. Any way to move Bushies into those programs, wait a few months, and then shut down the programs (and, presumably, the Bushies' jobs)?

Aerobics? Man, that's letting them off easy

If there were any justice in this world, the BushCo gang would be reassigned to

"Dance At The End of a Rope" class.

We can do much better than Pilates class. Much of the most enthusiastic burrowing has been done at Interior. It just so happens that Interior runs a facility in DC that could benefit from the only known skill of most Bush appointees, their expertise in horses**t. I refer to the National Zoo. Give them some shovels and put 'em on the job. Who knows, if you force these guys to earn an honest living, they might even become Democrats - assuming we're willing to accept them.

It's amazing that Bush doesn't think he's done enough damage in the present. He thinks he needs to screw things up in the future too.