How Come When You Fire This Guy You Can't Get Rid of Him?

Pundits are crawling out of the woodwork to shove the Bush administration aside as quickly as possible, but Bush/Cheney still have time to wreak havoc before saying so long and retiring to their respective ranches.

Gail Collins joins the ranks of the I-can't-wait-ers in today's New York Times as she contemplates just where to rank W in the pantheon of the miserable leaders category: "If Bush gives up doing nothing by giving up his job, it’s possible that someday history might elevate him to the ranks of the below average. Better than Franklin Pierce! Smarter than Warren Harding! And healthier than William Henry Harrison!"

But there's still work to do for the Bush administration. Currently, they are filling the ranks of the government's non-political jobs in positions where they can still screw up the gears, as related in today's Washington Post. If you can't hold a political appointment, you can still gain a position as a key man in a position for which you are even less qualified, with your business or political science degree from a no name college, as long as you have been a fervent Bushy at some point in the past five years.

It seems you can't even vote these guys out of office, and we are doomed to a culture of imbecility after all.

The Dude exercises the politician's prerogative of double-speak: "I had a cordial meeting at the meeting last night. We greeted each other cordially" — after a meeting with German Chancellor Schroeder, Nov. 21, 2002.