Nixon totally not compromising with the evil Mao.

From Bush’s farewell address:

As we address these challenges — and others we cannot foresee tonight — America must maintain our moral clarity. I’ve often spoken to you about good and evil, and this has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two of them there can be no compromise.

It’s hard to sum up eight years in twenty minutes (especially with time out for callers), unless you want to talk about the positive achievements of the Bush Administration—that you can take care of in one line: there were none.

They’re calling the successful rescue yesterday of 155 passengers aboard a US Airways jet a miracle. And that miracle was brought to you by union men and women.

The “9/11 changed everything” crowd seem to be possessed of no firmer belief than that lying became acceptable in the aftermath for government officials when confronted by inquiry they deemed inappropriate. Daniel Henninger in the Wall Street Journal comes to the defense of that great public servant Scooter Libby, and implores Bush to do the right thing and pardon him, or the “best people” aren’t gong to want to serve in Washington DC.

Oh, this just cries out, “Mock me!” Doesn’t it? “I’ve given serious thought to writing a book,” Cheney told conservative radio host Sean Hannity this week. “I never have, and my family has been bugging me about it. I’ve got 40 years since I came to town to stay 12 months. I’ve got a lot of stories to tell, and a few scores to settle.”…

As mentioned here yesterday, the Franken campaign wants the Minnesota Supremes to rule February 5 on whether they can carve out an exception in state law to allow Federal legislative election winners to receive signed election certificates despite the existence of an unresolved lawsuit or contest. Such exceptions, or carve outs, already exist for state legislative election winners.

• Israel and Hamas nearing a deal?
• W says goodbye:: 9/11, 9/11, good, evil, 9/11, 9/11…
• “Forgive and forget”?
• An incredible rescue effort for downed US Airways passengers.
• Shoe-thrower held incommunicado.
• Also: water is wet, sky is blue…
• But, but, but — I can haz waterboarding?
• Warren: be a Nazi-like Christian!
• Everyone together now: awwwwww.

Notice he didn’t say his “mother was a saint”?

Yes – Changes.

What’s on your mind tonight?

Proving they have no political principles but their pocketbooks, several of California’s premier political consultants have banded together to extract more cash from the referendum process — and help export it to other states as well.