It's official: Less than one year until history slaps Dubya to the curb.

[gatorboy]

Can you feel the tingle?


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/11/16/notes111607.DTL

It's just that kind of feeling, that sense of hesitant, embryonic optimism, the sense that says, oh my God, we as a culture and a smash-mouthed, war-hammered society really are fast approaching something possibly, potentially, heart-achingly new and different and — because it cannot get any worse — just a little bit better.

Here is my suggestion: Mark your calendars, set your watch, program a celebratory ringtone well in advance, because the countdown has officially begun.

It is now less than one calendar year until the next presidential election. It is less than one year until the country finally takes a deep breath and flexes its atrophied muscles and opens its bloody, Cheney-punched mouth and lets it be known to the world, to the universe, to its own numb and dejected soul just exactly how unwell it has felt, how much pain has raked its heart, lo, these past seven (eight, by then) years, by ushering in an entirely new political era, as we all exhale a massive sigh of long overdue relief that — praise Jesus, Allah, Buddha and the devil all at once — the long national nightmare of George W. Bush is finally over.

It is now safe to imagine. It is now becoming increasingly easy to actually dare to think that, in less than one year's time, Dubya will begin packing his bags, jamming into his Spongebob duffel his map of the world coloring book, English-to-English translation dictionaries, mangled pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, Bibleman action figure set and a "Mission Accomplished!" sweatshirt, and heading off to face his destiny as one of the bleakest, most morally repellent chapters in all of American history.

You think maybe it's too soon? Too early to let the tingle of positivism and hope take hold? Far from it. After all, the signs of decay and utter GOP desperation keep pouring in. For example, it has now been officially recorded in history what everyone already knows: Bush is nearly exactly as unpopular as Richard Nixon was at his lowest point, and no president in history has had as long a streak at the bottom of the job-approval rankings as Dubya. Heckuva job, Bushie!

[acmavm]

1. A year. I'm not very relieved. Chimpy can cause more damage in one

HOUR than Runny Raygun could cause in one WEEK.

And Runny was a dangerous, nasty, vicious, opportunistic, delusional old coot.

[derby378]

2. Oh, suuuure, let's celebrate Herr Decider getting away with it...

If he isn't impeached, it's all over. We have lost the collective will that made America a force to reckon with.

[zabet]

3. The 'collective will' has

been replaced by the 'collective shame'.
We used to be the nation that the world
looked up to, now we are the nation the
world looks down on.

[MiniMe]

4. Actually, he won't be kicked out until 1-20-09

Time can't pass quickly enough until that date

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I'm with you. I won't exhale until the Oath of Office has been administered.

Up until that moment, * can start a war with any country, declare martial law, close the borders, round up "undesirables", etc.

And I'm not sure about the potential of his successor to be expotentially different and restorative to fix the harms * created.

[pansypoo53219]

5. on tuesday

it's 59 more fucking weeks. then georgie can decide on paper or plastic.

[DFW]

6. The week leading up to noon on Jan. 20, 2009

He will pardon more felons than we can imagine (or stomach), and therefore
neutralize some of the most deserved trials for obstruction of justice,
treason, and other felonies committed against the United States since
the dawn of our history.

[derby378]

8. Yet another reason why impeachment is the only solution

We need to show the rest of the world that we are capable of fixing our own problems, rather than just letting those problems slide out the side door.

[Angela Shelley]

10. I agree,

we shouldn´t just "lay low" and hope nothing gets worse

[pansypoo53219]

15. doubt it.

just HIS cronies. he doesn'y gieve a shit about anybody else

[spanone]

9. his 'fucking up' of the world will go on for decades...along with his 'supreme court'

his 'ignorance' will be felt for many many years.

[Frank Cannon]

11. The MSM hasn't yet begun their scrubbing job...

of this pathetic bastard's reputation.

Trust me, by February, 2009, all you'll see and hear in the national media is that this drunken dumbshit was the greatest President in American history. And a substantial portion of this country--Repub and Dem--will believe it.

[dysfunctional press]

12. less than a year?? on which planet? his term ends jan. 20, 2009.

learn some math, get a clue, or whatever it takes to stop looking so foolish.

[gatorboy]

14. Geez, man settle.

It's the title of the article.

[Bright Eyes]

13. 1-20-09: Bush's last day

1-21-09: Bush's war crimes trial begins.

[Cha]

16. To me ..it's not official

until that A$$hole leaves on Jan 20, 2009.

GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD FASCISM!

[Ilsa]

17. People are starting to call themselves "conservatives" instead of

"republicans" on discussion boards here. Claim to not be fans of GWB, but you know they voted for him and had his stupid stickers on their gas guzzlers.