Heartwarming, adorable photo: Soon-to-be-exiting Turd Blossom carries a "Bush for President" bag.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who arrived on the Marine One helicopter with President Bush, walks on the South Lawn, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007, in Washington. Rove, is retiring in two days. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

[shain from kane]

1. KKKarl, there's still time to catch the flight to Minneapolis to meet your friend. n/t

[Radio_Lady]

2. My first thought: He'll use it in his garden in Texas to weed out his own...

turd blossoms.

Welcome, AV.

Making peace a priority,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[Dukkha]

3. looks like one of those "parting gift bags" handed out to losers

as they make their exit

[peacetalksforall]

4. Those bags are holding SOME of the missing e-mails. Going

to a safe deposit box for protection - in the form of blackmail collateral.

[soothsayer]

5. you put that in front of the stall door so no one can see the activity

going on inside

[AtomicKitten]

6. "I had my way with America and all I got was this lousy tote bag."

[Sequoia]

7. Rove's new job: Bush's Step 'n Fetch It boy

[libodem]

8. He looks gaunt

compared to the usual doughy, pudge bucket, POS, he normally, Jabba the Huts, around as. (sorry about the grammar/syntax problems, oh well)

[Bucky]

9. Actually, he lost that weight years ago.

He has, oh how can I say this delicately, a big fat head. But Rove actually has trimmed down quite a lot since 2000. I'm thinking that maybe, besides being Bush's brain, he's also become Bush's exercise regime.

No snickering, please.