Thread: Managing the Handoff

Mark Krikorian

Whatever one's assessment of the current administration's competence, it's good to see that they're at least doing a good job in preparing for the transition to the next administration:

President George W. Bush is leaving office with some of the lowest job-approval ratings in history. He's being assailed by both of his would-be successors, one of whom will inherit two wars and the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, Bush is engineering what may be the most carefully considered and potentially successful presidential transition in modern times, both Democrats and Republicans close to the process say.

11/03 03:50 PM

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Be my guess he knows he's done the U.S. wrong and got in over his head and is more than happy to high tail it out of Washington.