One Last, Parting Shot

By Baxter

Apparently the Worst Person Who Ever Lived thought he had to rebut today's Inaugural address. So he gave a rather defensive speech when he landed in Midland, Texas this afternoon.

(No, this photo is not from that event, although it's understandable how you'd get it confused.)

To which we cats say, hmmm.

Must have been an interesting flight from Washington. Maybe the Worst Person asked for a text of the speech he'd just heard, so he could pore over it again and realize just how hard the new President had bitch-slapped him and his Administration. Maybe as the miles went by and the landscape under him started turning Texas red, he couldn't get out of his mind how the enormous crowd had booed him when he walked onto the Inaugural podium, and how they sang "Hey, Hey, Goodbye" as he left Capitol Hill. Maybe he got madder and madder the closer he got to Midland — or just started channeling the ghost of Richard Nixon.

Maybe. But we cats are certain of one thing. While we can't yet know all the damage he's wrought, Bush is now part of the history that he keeps insisting will judge him. We already have.

UPDATE, January 23: We told you so. Although they took great pains to claim that the Worst Person Who Ever Lived didn't take part (yeah, right), those awful diehard Bushies groused all the way from Washington. Then, they hit the ground running with complaints about the Inaugural address. Perhaps they didn't realize that President Obama's speech reflected 1) the views of the majority of the American people and 2) the very reasons the GOP got its butt kicked last year.