He sure did shruck the country.

Good riddance to the lot of 'em!

As a focus for today, I'll be playing Fanfare for the Common Man and relishing the inauguration of a president who will lead by searching for practical, common solutions to the challenges and problems we face! -Kevo

Surely Dennis Miller and Ted Nugent were available! Like they had something else to do!

And don't forget Sinise and Norris. They could have done impersonations of themselves to amuse the crowds.

I just hope W disappears more effectively than Palin.

"...objectively the finest group..."

n'yuk, n'yuk. Best qualifier yet.

Beam wrote a execrable piece of trash regarding Bush's post-presidency plans and prospects for Slate. Highlights include:

"....Bush may want to explore other ways to spend his post-presidency. One option is to become an informal adviser to his successors."

Yeah, that's what a current president wants to be seen doing, taking advice from a world class fuck-up.

"Bush's decision-making process may not be one that successors want to emulate."

Duh, ya think?

"Plus, ex-presidencies can often seem more "real" than presidencies, as if the person's true character is finally shining through now that they've left the political arena."

Bush's "true" character, if exposed free of the constraints of the Oval Office, is one that would make John Wayne Gacy seem like a friendly dinner companion by comparison.

"On the other, he's young and has a strong sense of mission."

He does. This is a man that careened aimlessly from one disaster to another. What mission was he on the last 8 years, anyone?

"He has made noises about wanting to promote freedom and spread democracy."

Yes, now all he'll need is a nation to volunteer for the same tratment Afghanistan and Iraq received. The world's saving grace in this supposed effort will be Bush won't have a standing army to slaughter 10% of the people he's liberating.

"Bush could also re-enter government. A congressional run a la John Quincy Adams seems unlikely, as does a Taft-style Supreme Court nomination."

Supreme court? OMG, Mr. Beam is truly on acid. Unlikely> Goddamned right. Regardless of Dem numbers in the Senate a filibuster is assured on this little bit of speculation should a future president take leave of his senses. Blotter or windowpane, Mr. Beam, which is it?

The rest of Beam's drivel is here: http://www.slate.com/id/2208768/

Slate's editors are as deluded for publishing it as he was for the writing of it.

Bush jumped the sherk.

One outgoing Treasury employee had already landed a job as a manager at Abercrombie & Fitch.

I suspect 2001 to 2008 will be an embarrassing gap on a lot of resumes. "Attorney General? No, no. That must have been some other Gonzales."

Some were applying to grad schools...

I think this says it all right here. There were people in that group WITHOUT graduate degrees who wanted them? They had the gall to take jobs of great influence BEFORE they felt fully educated?

Personally, I hope they all go to grad school. Nothing crush their souls better, short of torture.

I didn't know Regent University had a grad school. I'm tempted to ask if you can actually get a degree in "Misrepresenting the truth", but I think they call it "Debate".

Dallas, Texas? Not Crawford? You mean that pig farm that he bought in 1999 was all for the sake of a photo-op, and he's not really a down-to-earth good-ole-boy ass-kickin' brush-cuttin' cowboy?

Wolf Blitzer, say it isn't so!

"This is objectively the finest group of people ever to serve our country," he said. "Not to serve me, not to serve the Republican Party, but the United States of America."

Does he not know the meanings of the words objective and subjective or is he just incapable of telling the truth about anything?

Oh yeah, Bush "shruck out" all right. At least he was considerate enough to coin a new word to describe his miserable failure as a president.

Shrub + fucked = Shrucked. Indeed.

Hank Williams, Jr was booked? He could have sung "Are You Ready for Some Pardons".

Even the title of the event is kind of sad. "Crossing the Finish Line." Reminds you of the guy who finishes a marathon five hours after everybody else.

"Not to serve me, not to serve the Republican Party, but the United States of America."

Oh, that's rich, given this White House's obsession -- illegal obsession -- with partisan credentials and personal loyalty to Bush.

Sounds like an actual British TV play about a kamikaze ground staff reunion.
That or the last night in the Bunker.

> Dallas, Texas? Not Crawford? You mean that pig farm that he bought in 1999 was all for the sake of a photo-op, and he's not really a down-to-earth good-ole-boy ass-kickin' brush-cuttin' cowboy?

3-4 weeks ago it was reported that the "ranch" was being sold and they bought the house in a Dallas 'burb. It's covenanted and completely restricted, don't cha know! Anyway, they're done with Crawford, as the town no longer serves any useful purpose.

"He has made noises about wanting to promote freedom and spread democracy."

Try:
"He has made noises about wanting to clean out his digestive system and spread noxious fumes."
There. Better.

I have David Brent from "The Office" in mind...

"Not to serve me, not to serve the Republican Party, but the United States of America."

If I'am a reporter corvering this event my first question.

"What is it about Presnit Bush that makes you want to suc-serve him?"

Answer:

"She might have served; I sucked. I mean we gave head to the head decider"

Hopefully, some of these people will travel to one of the 140+ countries that are signatory to the UN Convention on Torture where (a la Pinochet) they can be arrested and tried.

An informal adviser! Perfect. He says, "East. Definitely East." Smart guys look West. He says "Sunshine, fer sure!" Smart guys grab an umbrella.

If you're a Republican at some sad-sack party with no heat asking "what's next?" the weekend before Obama's inauguration, you truly are a total moron.

shruck?

.....

mothershruckers. all of 'em.