To those who say we don’t have to drive out the Bush regime because he’ll be out by 2008 anyway, there’s this from U.S. News and World Report, Sept. 11, 2006:
White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten has developed a special
motivational technique to keep West Wing staffers focused on getting
things done in the next 2-1/2 years. Bolton has distributed to key
aides a “countdown clock” – a cellphone-size timepiece that gives a
digital readout of the time remaining in the Bush presidency…last
week, the clock showed 873 days, 21 hours, 21 minutes and 17 seconds
until the next president is sworn in on Jan. 20, 2009. “I keep that
clock as a reminder to myself that we have a lot of days left,” Bolton
says. “We have ample time to accomplish many things but not so many
that we can waste a single day…and I know that’s the president’s
attitude. He wants to make the most of the time that we have
left…It’s a good amount of time.”
Indeed.