Yes We Can… 
                                                                                                                                        …..be seated.
 You’ll park it with presidents when you own this shiny $5,000 reproduction of the chair Barack Obama sat in for the inaugural ceremony [Bush too!].
The Obama industry is the nation’s only hope to fight off economic depression, and now it’s moved into repo furniture.
Consequential!  
They are showing a little ankle at the Bush Library Foundation, the tiny acorn from which the mighty Bush Library ‘n Fantastic Freedom Center oak shall grow.
For some audiences they are going with a “Say what you will” argument. You may view the Bush era as a string of disasters sprinkled with tone deafness, but you can’t deny its consequential-ness!
“Bush plans to begin quickly on a memoir, probably structured around the toughest decisions of his consequential presidency.“
“George W. Bush’s presidency was far from perfect, but that doesn’t mean his post-presidential life cannot be consequential.“
The Gang’s All Here 
The Library web site is finally up and running, and yes, we will be seeing the Megaphone of Destiny. A lot.
Now that Bush is back at the ranch, his Library-To-Be can drop its self-imposed limit and start taking cash from foreigners.
The prohibition was announced after reports Bush hanger-on Stephen Payne offered Central Asian dictators Administration access in trade for Bush Library donations. 
Exhibition planning moves ahead. George W. Bush Foundation President Mark Langdale is already testing positive spin on renowned Bush disasters, er, “disappointments,” like when Big Government let us all down in New Orleans.
“There’s an interesting lesson about Katrina and the limitations of government assistance to respond to big natural disasters,” Langdale said. “They are acts of God, and they are tough. It’s definitely a story line I would not shy away from addressing somehow in the museum.“
Bush Administration alumni are turning grief into strength online, with a blog!
“We were there. And as members of the team, we know the difference between rumor, reality, fact, and fiction. This is our chance to stand up, speak up, and set the record straight.“
Others aren’t so sure.
Never Surrender 
Fighting to their last, the Bush Administration won a victory in their ongoing obfuscation over Dick Cheney’s White House papers, even as Cheney himself injured his back moving boxes of papers into his Virginia home.
The White House has variously claimed Cheney was uncovered by laws requiring document preservation, or even wasn’t part of the executive branch. Â A judge found Cheney is covered by the law, but gave him the benefit of the doubt despite the cumulative behavior pattern, and will not order him to preserve his papers.
Lasting Impressions 
The departing administration’s list of presidential gifts from foreigners is itself a delight, revealing some gifters’ self images, or at least how they’d like to be seen.
Famed Bush poodle Tony Blair presented the President with a classic dog whistle, a Wedgwood bowl inscribed with the words ‘‘Am I Not a Man and a Brother?’.’ This was a slogan of the 18th Century British abolitionist movement organized by Christian evangelical heartthrob William Wilberforce, engraved by Wedgwood at the time on bowls. medallions and tchotskies to promote the cause.
It’s an almost too perfect replication of the two men’s publicly presented self image, believing Christians setting out to do right in the world for the benighted swarthies, a reminder of sunlit days when caring whites could run the abolitionist movement before all those colored people got involved.
Bonus Fun Fact:Â Wedgwood ended the year filing for bankruptcy.
