More Leftist Lunacy

As most of you already know, I'm neither a George W. Bush fan, nor am I a Bush hater. This makes me just a little unique, because it can be hard to find people who don't fall into one of those two camps. And yes, even though you don't really see them on the news, there are plenty of Bush fans out there.

Something is bothering me though. There seem to be a lot of people, all of them on the far left, who are saying that President Bush should resign and allow Obama to take office earlier than the scheduled January 20th time frame. They even have some wild ideas of how this could be done. They say that Bush and Cheney could resign together, and then Nancy Pelosi would be President (since she's the speaker of the House right now) and she would just go along with Obama's ideas. This, of course, is nothing more than a ploy to make sure that the Democrats get the first woman President, showing how they are still running scared of Sarah Palin. As a side note, if this were going to happen, which it won't which I'll get to in a moment, the right way to do it would be for Dick Cheney to resign, Bush to appoint Obama as VP and then resign once he's confirmed, which would take this Senate all of about three seconds.

Anyway, the idiocy of these people is simply stunning. One of the things that really sets the United States apart from the rest of the world is the fact that every 4 to 8 years we elect a new President, and power is transferred in a clean, efficient, peaceful way. As much as Republicans didn't like Bill Clinton, when Bush won the 2000 election, you didn't hear all these calls for Clinton to step aside for him to take the office early. It was enough for Republicans that we had won, and would soon have our man in the White House. Likewise, as much as I disagree with Obama, and am not anticipating a good time for the next 4 years, and based on that am hoping that a really good conservative Republican is able to defeat him in 2012, should that happen, I would not expect Obama not to serve out his term.

This is driven by a couple of things, first and foremost being the rabid hatred that the leftists have for George W. Bush, and the other is their lust for power. They have tasted victory with the election of Obama, and can't wait for him to destroy... err... change our Country.

One funny part of this is the fact that on the biggest thing that is going on right now, the economic woes, Bush is basically doing (sadly) exactly what Obama would do, and most of the other issues in the far left agenda will take some time to move forward, so rushing to power won't do them any good.

For myself, while I'm no big fan of George W. Bush, I think that it would be a grand time to be able to sit down and have lunch with the man, sometime after January 21st 2009. I question some of the things he did as President, but he seems to me that as a regular guy, he could be a lot of fun to hang out with.