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The new guy’s stepping up to the challenge, though he needs help from his sidekick:

Sure, tomorrow is the big day of “Hope” and “Change” yada yada yada, but for me  today is the big day, the day the door hits Shrubya on the ass on his way out the door.  I have no doubt that Obama will turn some things around, but I figure we’ll see “change” rather than Change, if you catch my drift: If staffers like Holder plan to continue to wiretap our phones and review our library records, we’ll have plenty to post on Needlenose.

But today we have much to be thankful for!  Sure, Shrubya didn’t get impeached.  Sure Obama won’t pursue any legal action against him and his band of war criminals.  But think of all our worst fears that didn’t materialize!

Shrubya never completely suspended the constitution, stopped elections and styled himself President-For-Life.  He never invaded Iran or Pakistan.  He only illegally arrested just a couple of U.S. citizens.  He never pulled Bin Laden out of a hat in October prior to the election to ensure a McCain victory.

So let’s enjoy today, full of hope that Shrubya’s final flight on Airforce One to Crawford will feature a  big bowl of pretzels!

– As the revelations about the Bushites’ politicization of the erstwhile Department of Justice were unfolding a year and a half ago, Atrios wrote presciently:

A sad fact of the current state of our democracy is that anyone who wants to be president has to be by any reasonable definition completely insane. The fact that they are insane doesn’t necessarily prevent them from being good presidents, but nonetheless they are completely bonkers.

This is doubly true now, as any president is not only going to have to deal with this disaster in Iraq, but also a federal government which has been staffed from top to bottom with career ideological Bushies who will fully understand that their job in a Democratic administration is to take it down.

See D-Day for a description of the probable first shot in this coming four-year war.

– Everybody Laughs at Broder wonders why departing Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell didn’t recommend cleaning house at the WaPo op-ed page as part of her recommendations for the paper.

– Whatever It Is, I’m Against It rounds up news of Dubya, including life-size dartboards of him, and his bisexual yearnings.  You know, the usual.

– Speaking of which, Zaius Nation sums up the so-called Bush legacy project, noting admiringly that “President Bush has not let the pesky old financial crisis get in the way of the really important work that he has at hand”:

– Seenos at Left-Over, though, isn’t surprised “that the President who put Karl Rove in charge of overseeing the reconstruction after Katrina, or Karen Hughes in charge of improving our country’s image in the Muslim world, would put the two of them in charge of trying to “engorge” his presidential legacy.”