"Thank You For The Job"

Just looking for the weather report, people (10 degrees, feels like 2; 2-3 inches of additional snow possible), and instead CLTV is showing Bush's probable final press conference. I suppose it's only fitting that on this morning after the Golden Globes awards, in which clueless actors and moviemakers tripped all over themselves to awkwardly thank the entire Hollywood foreign press, our national shame and equally clueless president began his final press conference by awkwardly and insincerely thanking the entire White House press corps.

So far, Bush is trapped by his own stupidity, offering such odd and, naturally, unquestioned assertions as that he will not ask Congress for the remaining $350 billion in bailout money "unless he (Obama) asks me to. He hasn't made the request." And here, I had no idea that the sitting president was powerless to act unless he received a direct request from the president-elect. At least Bush is going out just like he came in: a gutless, lying turd.

But the real revelation here is the final sentence of Bush's opening monologue. He had just thanked the press for its "professionalism" (I think he meant "complicity"), and he had mentioned the press' role in translating his mangled words, ideas, and persona to the public. And then he said, "I'm interested in answering some of your questions, but more importantly, I wanted to say 'thanks for the job.'"

He knows, y'all. He knows he never won shit in his own right, and he knows that he's too far gone now to ever be the national hero his feeble brain thought possible in 2003. I only pray there is enough time and enough paper to equally document and condemn the press for the crimes it assisted George W. Bush in committing.