The Worrier’s Almanac’s Biggest Worry of 2008: The Bush Administration Refuses to Turn Over Power

[tannybogus]

January 20, 2009

It’s dawn at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Lynne Cheney has been up all night rewriting the national curriculum to present to the four members of the National Press Club, all representatives of Fox News/Wall St. Journal, at noon. She’s exhausted and a bit bleary eyed from excising most of the 1960s from the American History standards, but she still has the energy to put her stuffed-bald-eagle-talon slippers on and head underground to check on her husband’s feeding tube.

Before she makes her way to the hospital ward, she does the precursory security-MRI scan so she can pop into Donald Rumsfeld’s chamber. She has a couple of questions to ask Don as she puts together the agenda for the Media Dissemination Council meeting at 10 AM.

She finds Don as she left him, leaning into his standing desk, which is more of a podium. One hair is out of place, but otherwise Rumsfeld looks as spry and collected as the day he resigned from office in 2006.

More than anyone Rumsfeld was reinvigorated by President George W. Bush’s complete suspension of the Constitution in late 2008. When Bush made his surprise announcement—just before the third game of the World Series between the Cubs and the Yankees—that Al Qaeda had completely infiltrated the Obama 08 campaign and completely dissolved Congress on October 20, Rumsfeld was the President’s first recess appointment. Rumsfeld was back, but not as the head of the Department of Defense, but as the Secretary of the newly instituted Department of Order, which subsumed the DOD along with the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.

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[tanyev]

1. I have to say that the headline "Republicans refuse to leave"

about the GOP hissyfit in the House chambers sent a little shiver up my back.

[ailsagirl]

2. This is assuming we'll win and I have grave doubts...

Especially when I see how supposedly Obama and McCain are running
"neck and neck." How did that happen?? I thought Obama was the
overwhelming choice-- even for some disillusioned rethugs.

Now it looks like McCain, despite his vacuous appearance and
numerous gaffes, might well have a good chance.

It doesn't jibe somehow and it brings back memories about how the
exit polls suddenly flipped in 2004.

I don't believe I could stand another rethug administration.

:nuke: