nope. Until the electoral congress votes him in, he is president elect. GW like it or not still runs the roost.

Or, better yet, actually care about what it says.

For people who pat themselves on the back constantly for their supposed intelligence, Salon writers and readers are not all that bright on average.

Everyone knows the headline is rhetorical but the point is apt.

George W. Bush, after plundering the country on so many fronts has gone into hiding yet again while the economy fails beneath us.

It's a cliche but when the going gets tough, the tough get going.

I applaud Barack Obama for stepping up early. He obviously has the courage to face trouble and he obviously wants to solve problems.

It's reassuring to know the right man was elected. Finally a President with some guts and intelligence.

When I was first hired as an assistant professor at a small college, my contract started on the first day of classes. But, clearly, I needed to be working weeks ahead of my official (paid) first day of work. I had to order books for my classes. Read the texts. And plan my syllabi, lectures, discussions, assignments, etc. My office wasn't "my" office yet, but I was getting emails from students who had enrolled in my classes.

Certainly one should expect no less of the president-elect. Especially when the "to-do" list is so daunting and the Current Occupant has done such an abyssmal job.

It's clear that no one is looking to the Current Occupant for leadership: not the markets, not Congress, not the public (and not even the GOP).

So, while Obama isn't POTUS yet, people are looking for leadership, and he's the closest thing we've got.

Aptly put Juliebird

And I sincerely, sincerely hope that as the clock continues to tick on Bush, that Salon focuses more attention on the ultimate, abject failure Dubya has been. I know it's never good to kick a man when he's down, but this time I'm willing to make an exception.

1. Fire Dick Cheney

2. Appoint Obama Vice-President

3. Resign

The real problem is what damage the Current Occupant can still do while no one is really paying attention.

is writing a paper on comparative governance, or even sketching out a whole new idea in political structure for america. it would be nice to think this archaic system, fundamentally medieval, was stimulating plans for improvement.

even britain, with it's class system, is capable of better transition between a failed government and it's replacement. and their monarch causes less trouble than america's.

Speaking of a lack of reading comprehension, evidently this part:

George W. Bush is still president

... somehow escaped your laser-like attention to detail and/or your dazzling intellect.

Not to mention this quote of Obama:

"There is only one president at a time."

And this one of Mark Mellman:

"It's not as if people don't know Bush is still president; this is not a mystery to anybody."

Of course, some people do seem a little confused about how this transition thing works:

"Now we have a new president, and he can fill that void."

Perhaps unsurprisingly, though, that was Vin Weber ... a Republican. (But I'll be generous and assume he was speaking in a figurative sense.)

This always happens every single time the Presidency changes. It happened in 2000 - Clinton did nothing of any import his last 4 months. And so on. Don't you remember ?

Your three steps are brilliant.

Better than anything the pundits are saying. And the reason for firing Cheney, beyond all the criminal stuff?

Job abandonment. Where in the hell is the evil dark lord anyway? Counting his money? Writing his own pardon for his evil crimes?

Bush in Race against Time to Wreck Country

Legacy of Destruction at Stake

Confounding the conventional wisdom that he is a lame duck president with no agenda as his days in office dwindle, President George W. Bush is redoubling his efforts to mutilate the country before his term expires, aides confirmed today.

"President Bush has spent the first seven years and ten months of his presidency doing everything in his power to leave the United States in smoldering ruins," said White House spokesperson Dana Perino. "He certainly is not going to let the final days of his tenure go to waste."

While Ms. Perino said that President Bush is proud to have led the U.S. into a "pointless and totally avoidable catastrophe in Iraq" and "the most terrifying financial cataclysm since the Great Depression," he is "in no way prepared to rest on his laurels."

Mr. Bush is "delighted," Ms. Perino said, that the stock market has lost one trillion dollars of its value in the last three days, but "that's just the tip of the iceberg in terms of the damage he hopes to wreak in his remaining time in office."

Among the targets for destruction that the President is currently eyeing, Ms. Perino indicated that the demise of the Big Three automakers was at the top of his list.

"If the President could preside over the disappearance of the Big Three and the millions of jobs they represent, that would be the ultimate feather in his cap," she said.

For his part, Mr. Bush took few questions from reporters today, saying that he had to return to the Oval Office to order random airstrikes over Belgium.

http://www.borowitzreport.com/article.aspx?ID=6960

While the Current Occupant still resides at the present address, he doesn't notice that nobody wants to talk to him..but he would like to have everyone listen to him. It's gotten so bad that even the media is ignoring any and all of his appearances.

Can't hope but hang on until Jan. 20th, for that is when the real President will finally come into power.

Maybe then the changes we have been waiting for will happen, but I dread to know what his predecessor will do in his remaining time-how many pardons is he writing up? How many executive orders is he giving out? When the hell will he finally get out of our sight so we can reclaim our honor and collective dignity?

Can't happen soon enough-but let's not dump the Constitution to that end. No sense in subverting the same document the CO has been ignoring for the last 8 years, because he would have the last laugh at our expense.

Let's not go there.