Monday, November 10, 2008

Bringing Down the House

This is terrific. Right now, Obama is meeting with Bush to start planning for a transition and to get a tour of the White House. Presumably, Obama will learn today what toilets need a bit of a jiggle to flush adequately, where you can secretly store Twinkies, and what to do to cover that stain in the Oval Office where Dubya keeps the kegerator.

Isn't Bush right now like a college kid going through terminal senioritis? I imagine Obama like the newly appointed frat president, being given a tour of this wreck of a house by this bumbling, stumbling hungover kid who can't wait to be out of college and that state's jurisdiction.

And what's happening today is that Bush is letting Obama know that the frat is on probation, the alumni base is incensed and threatening to withhold donations because of stories leaked to the campus paper, and that no sorority will have a mixer with them because everyone in the house is too damned sleazy.

I imagine the meeting will end abruptly, when Bluto walks in, shouts, "Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?" and leads a charge that consists solely of himself out the door.

Good luck, Mr. President.

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