it’s over

finally.

1 day and counting – staggering to the finish

Next stop: The Hague? We can hope. We’re the deciders.

2 days and counting – ‘a disastrous eight years’

It’s worth noting that the Chronicle doesn’t accurately reflect San Francisco’s liberal tradition. This is a paper that publishes the putrid Debra J Saunders, a right-wing hack if there ever was one, and relegates columnist Mark Morford to its online edition only — no print — in order to avoid upsetting its Republican readers. It’s a paper owned by the Hearst Corporation. And yet even the Chronicle levels Bush in their farewell editorial. “Bush” and “farewell.” Damn it feels good to write this. After a harrowing eight years, it’s about time.

4 days and counting – bush farts and calls it perfume

More practical folks than I have pointed out that if we had just paid Bush a ginormous sum to drink beer and ride his bicycle (in traffic, one hopes, or is that too much to ask?) for the past eight years, the country might still be standing. I mean, given the number of vacation days he took, it’s not like he was earning his pay anyway. You have to marvel at Bush’s efficiency: If a guy can do this much damage working only 70 percent of the time, imagine what he could have accomplished had he been working full-time. The imagination reels.

5 days and counting – summing up a presidency

“Bush’s presidency began with the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil and ends with the worst economic collapse in three generations.” How to sum up a presidency in one sentence, from Salon. But the cartoon works also.

6 days and counting – village idiot bush on the economy

From Scott Bateman, a blast from the past. This was in the days when TARP was being created. TARP, of course, being the tool that enabled the same dickheads who triggered our financial armageddon to complete their life’s work by siphoning another several hundred billion into their private bank accounts. Terrific oversight, Hank. Oversight was your intent, wasn’t it?

7 days and counting – bush to olmert: drop trou

The final ignominy: Olmert throws a fit and Bush drops to his knees to polish his knob. “Olmert Says He Made Rice Change Vote.” Meanwhile, the war crimes of Israel’s Stormtroopers continue unabated. Paging Edward Gibbon.