“WE ONLY ALLOW REAL COWBOYS TO RIDE INTO US, NOT SWAGGERING IDIOTS WHO START UNNECESSARY WARS.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Lisa Casey on the further limitations of the fake cowboy.

The Daily Show’s Changefest ’09  – at One Good Move.

Juan Cole on Obama’s Pledge to Withdraw from Iraq and the Iraqi Reality.

“OUR INTELLIEGENCE ALSO SHOWS THAT THE SONUVABITCH’S WHEELCHAIR WAS POWERED BY YELLOW CAKE URANIUM … FROM AFRICA.” 

“LAURA WOULDN’T LET ME RIDE MY MOUNTAIN BIKE AROUND THE CAPITOL, SO I FIGURED I’D STEP ALL OVER BARACK’S BIG MOMENT.”

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Lisa Casey on Bush’s Parting Gift to Obama.

Apoliticus with a George W. Bush Revisionist Retrospective.

“I FIGURED IF I MADE OBAMA SCREW-UP, WE COULD STOP THE OATH BEFORE HE SAID ALL THE WORDS THAT COUNT.”

[Chad at BuzzFlash with the story and video, while Norm Jenson has the full Constitutional implications.]

Check out Dan Kurtzman on Surviving the Obama Comedy Crisis. (For my money, I’d keep my eye on the comedy team of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.)

“NO, PLEASE — AS I TOLD PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA, SOUP IS NOT A MEAL, AND I INSISTED, AS THE PRICE OF BI-PARTISANSHIP, A SIX-COURSE DINNER AT MENDY’S.”

“McCain’s Old, Jerry, He’s Old!”

“THANKS TO THE SOARING UNEMPLOYMENT RATE WHICH MY POLICIES CAUSED, FOLKS GOT PLENTY OF EXTRA TIME TO HELP OUT IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.”

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BLOGWORTHIES:

Obama and the albatross of Afghanistan, by P.M. Carpenter at BuzzFlash.

Lisa Casey sums up the dramatic change starting tomorrow.

Juan Cole on King’s Anti-Imperialism and the Challenge for Obama.

“WE OPEN WITH A SCENE DURING THE 2000 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN. AL GORE HITS HIS HEAD ON A LOCKBOX, LOSES CONSCIOUSNESS, AND THEN EXPERIENCES AN EIGHT-YEAR NIGHTMARE OF UNJUSTIFIED WAR, LAWLESSNESS, AND ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL DEVASTATION. HEY, IT WORKED IN DALLAS, AND THAT’S PRETTY CLOSE TO WHERE THIS WHOLE FIASCO STARTED ANYWAY. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS, A SIMPLE SHOWER WON’T WASH AWAY THE STENCH OF THIS ONE.”

“NOW, WE’VE HAD WORD THAT THERE’S BEEN SOME BAD GRANOLA BARS CIRCULATING IN THE CROWD. SO IF IT GETS PASSED TO YOU, YES, YOU SHOULD THROW IT IN THE CAN.”

“MISSION ACCOMPLISHED — MAJOR DINGBAT OPERATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE ENDED.”

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More on the BUSH Dregacy:

Putting his Stamp on Wall Street, at All Hat No Cattle; and Keeping us “Safe, 24/6,”‘ at One Good Move.

“I DON’T REALLY CARE WHO HE IS — HE WAS TALKING TOO LOUD ON THE CELL PHONE, REPEATING OLD STORIES ABOUT HIS NINETY-YEAR OLD MOTHER GOING TO CONFESSION, AND WORST OF ALL, WHISTLING AT EVERY STOP.”