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Sheriff Don’t Like It 

The Associated Press speaks with the Chicago wiseguys around Barack Obama, and has learned there’s no need for a late Bush Era pardon watch.

There’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s giving Torturers Against Terrorism a pass.

Hope still lives in the lands across the seas, where wiley miscreants have mounted numerous so far failed efforts to snag Donald Rumsfeld.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy told AP that it’s Europe or bust. “In the United States, no.”

Got It Covered  

Fantasies of George W.Bush finally answering the numerous suits, inquiries and subpoenas pending against his administration after he leaves office received a cold shower Thursday from the New York Times, which reports a crackpot Harry Truman legal theory may have empowered presidents to tell Congress, the courts and polite society generally to screw off.

Comic Genius   

Mr Plain Speaking was freshly out of power and interested in dodging congressional subpoenas, so his lawyers cooked up a theory giving presidents executive privilege even when no longer executiving.  Edward M. Cramer was a junior attorney on the scheme, and told the Times  “I think, legally, we were wrong.”

This Truman Doctrine returned in the 70s when Richard Nixon cited it as precedent to not answer questions about Watergate.

“Mr. Cramer recalled, “Nixon used it, and we said ‘Oh, Jesus, what have we done?’ ”

We can only imagine how far Bush will run with this notion. He has already played with the law on Presidential Archives, issuing an executive order which may delay document release into perpetuity.  Bush invented new rights for ex-presidents and their heirs to mess with the release of presidential papers, potentially giving crack head  Noelle Bush or legendary whore-hound Neil Bush say in the release of their father’s, uncle’s, grandfather’s or brother’s history.
Gettin’ ‘Er Done, Hope-Style!  

Democrat’s appetite for the truth may fade with time. Barack Obama has already invited the opposition to whine about any under-rock peering, saying:

“I would not want my first term consumed by what was perceived on the part of Republicans as a partisan witch hunt, because I think we’ve got too many problems we’ve got to solve.”

Our best hopes for justice, or at least messing with, may lie abroad.
No Time Like The Present! 

George Bush famously barely traveled overseas, but others in his Administration traveled widely. Everything may change after January,  when mischievous foreign prosecutors may launch investigations and indictments of war crimes accusations against Bush and armies of lesser administration figures.

We’ve all enjoyed the spectacle of Henry Kissinger dodging investigators looking into his Chilean adventures.

Imagine the fun to be had next time Donald Rumsfeld visits the chocolate makers!

EverReady! 

Jesse Taylor of Pandagon joyously mocks the endlessly expressed notion that putting a little touch of Reagan in everything we do is key.

Taylor takes off on Scott Rasmussen’s Wall Street Journal advice to seek Him everywhere, and hilarity ensues:

“Barack Obama’s election reaffirms the central tenet of American political life, which is that Ronald Reagan is what people want, even before Ronald Reagan was around to let us know how much we wanted him….Ronald Reagan does not get to absorb every good thing that every presidential candidate ever does throughout perpetuity, nor is his corruption-riddled, hypocritical, propaganda-driven legacy the only benchmark for a successful period of governance.  What we’re being expected to believe is that a black Democrat running openly on large levels of government investment in our economy, higher tax rates on high earners, a humble and diplomacy-focused foreign policy, alternative energy and expanded, government-driven access to healthcare – and repeated attacked as a socialist for doing so – is the exact same as a white Republican conservative who agreed with Grover Norquist’s remark that we must drown government in the bathtub.

A desire to see Ronald Reagan win every time does not mean that, in fact, Ronald Reagan actually won every time.”

Who Was Barack Obama? 

The hope’s barely dry for the Obama Administration, but an exhibit on the Senator’s rise to greatness looms.

Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library and Museum has some odds and ends left over from the Democrat’s convention week in town, and they’re putting on a show!

This handsome number  is the centerpiece of the jump-start backwards glance.

Comedy is best when fresh, so the plucky lads at carbolicsmoke.com launched a barrage of humor at the prospective Obama Presidential Library before he was elected!

Brace self for raucous laughter: 

“The first floor of the library will feature a spectacular Hall of Hope that will emphasize Obama’s famous speeches more than his accomplishments.

“It is rhetoric that moves a nation and defines us as a people,” Obama explained.  “Accomplishments, on the other hand, are overrated.”

Faithful readers are encouraged to watch the skies for the endless Internet replication of this side-splitter – but it will take effort to match the the timeless classic “PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY DESTROYED BY FLOOD,” which haunts the web.

Nowhere to Go But    

As he shows Barack Obama around to measure the White House drapes,    George W. Bush can take quiet pride knowing that he has secured another presidential first, surpassing Richard Nixon in the American people’s dislike.

Seventy-six percent disapprove of Bush’s performance, compared with sixty-Six percent for Nixon as he boarded the last chopper ride.

All Bush needs now is for a magnanimous President Obama to pardon him, and the healing will begin!

 

‘the greatness comes and you are really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes, because only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.’