The outgoing administration is so weak that the new one has to start up early

[bigtree]

Monday, Pres. elect Obama will roll out his economic team and a new economic rescue plan while the jet-lagged lame-duck loser, still in office and out of influence, stands haplessly by. The view among economists is that the economy won't survive the two months before the inauguration under the neglect and mismanagement of Bush.

It's telling that Bush is set to return from overseas where he's been lecturing the rest of the nations gathered at an international summit with his economic wisdom which has recklessly allowed our own economy's descent into a staggering recession. More striking is the fact that both of the Bush presidents left office with the economy in shambles behind them.

The talk is that Pres. Obama will need to come in and immediately 'fix' and manage the bailout bill so that it works as intended and find and implement a solution to alleviate the automakers' debt. The first thing he should do is lock away the slush fund Congress 'urgently' handed over to Bush's treasury secretary without strings or direction.

Take away their keys right now. The nation can't stand another day of this slacker presidency.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Yah - I've noticed that too - that more and more it's looking like the transition...

is in practical terms actually doing some governing - presumably as much because nature abhors a vacuum as anything else.

Obama was right - there can only be one President at a time. Right now, it's looking more and more like that President is Obama.

[bigtree]

4. yeah

Maybe Cheney will let Bush actually take the wheel sometime in the last few days.

[Mira]

5. Cheney who? Have we seen him lately? Or Condosleeza? What

exactly are they still drawing a paycheck for?

[marmar]

6. I think Condi already has one Salvatore Ferragamo stilleto out the door.....

:yoiks:

[bigtree]

9. Dick 'Strangelove' Cheney is in the bowels of his 'secret location' shredding and shredding

. . . and shoveling his stolen money into tractor trailers for transport to his new home in Panama.

[lostnfound]

14. But "Take Your Child to Work Day" has already passed. nt

[bigtree]

15. he can play video games in the situation room then

until everyone is ready to leave

[eleny]

2. This is not the kind of history you hope to live through in a lifetime

A slacker president who treats his responsibility towards the nation the same as a slacker kid who ignores cleaning their room.

It's all the same to him because he's taken care of him and his. He has better things to do like scratch his ass and laugh at the rest of us.

[bigtree]

7. the lot of them are worthless

They've decided they've done all they could and they're now reduced to challenging the incoming administration by projecting their own failure . . .

from WaPo: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302433_pf.html

The network stars were gone, the seats half empty and the questioning low-key as Dana Perino held a White House briefing last week, her biggest announcement that the administration would try to ease air traffic for the holidays.

President Bush has faded from the news, and the last year has been hard on his press secretary as she tried to follow his orders not to defend him from the verbal assaults of the campaign to succeed him.

"We took it from all sides, and it was difficult," Perino says. "When you're that close to your boss, it's hard sometimes not to take it personally."

Perino marvels at the glowing press that Barack Obama has gotten -- "He was a great candidate, a phenomenal candidate," she says -- but warned his incoming chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, that it wouldn't last forever. "I'll give you eight months," she told him.

[spartan61]

3. Of course, bush is walking away from the mess he and his

administration helped to create. Isn't that his modus operandi? Over and over in his life he has created messes and then has walked away, letting someone else clean up after him. This is no different, only on a much grander scale. This man isn't fit to be a dog catcher, and for some sick reason, he became the President of the United States. I will never believe he was ever actually elected. Both elections were stolen. Why isn't there more outrage toward him? I guess we are all so ready to be rid of him that we won't even expect him to clean his own damn doo-doo. Thank God we elected Obama and we will finally have a smart president and one with a work ethic. Something that has been missing for the last 8 years. I'm afraid I will really blow if I hear any repuke criticize the job Obama will do after he is inaugurated.

[Mira]

8. Well - I think the outrage has been huge, along with fury at the impotence and weak

leadership.
And get ready to blow - or get ready to fight back, because the criticism of the clueless know-it-alls will come in hot and heavy. Remember Clinton?

[aquart]

10. Bush is not a slacker. He has actively and aggressively worked to destroy us.

Even now he is doing everything he can to strip us to the bare walls before he leaves.

[bigtree]

12. Bush is stealing stuff like doorknobs and WH pens

Cheney is shoveling cash into barrels.

[Mind_your_head]

11. Can't do. The * administration has to take RESPONSIBILITY for EVERY DAY

of its administation.

I hope Mr. Obama doesn't take the bait and jump the 'start gun'. That would be a HUGE mistake. Don't fall for it, sir.

[bigtree]

13. Bush won't take responsibility.

Someone has to. I voted for Mr. Obama to take charge and actually work to solve these issues and manufactured crises.

[Neshanic]

16. Fuck face just spent 90 seconds talking about it. Then left.

[bigtree]

17. someone let him take the wheel for a few seconds

. . . to take the fall for his posse's no-strings attached gift to Citibank.

"We have made these kind of decisions in the past, we made one last night and, if need be, we're going to make these kind of decisions . . . in the future," Bush says.

"This is tough situation for America, but we'll recover from it," he says. (as he walks out the door)

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/11/bush-talks-abou.html