I've got a new piece up at The Guardian's Comment is free America, "The long kiss goodbye," about the Lame Duck's idiotic interview with Charlie Gibson:

In the first of a series of exit interviews scheduled over the coming weeks, outgoing President George Bush sat down with ABC's Charlie Gibson to take a stroll down memory lane and reflect on his eight years of ruining the country. And some other countries.

As evidenced by the video, Bush was his usual charming self, having a good old laugh about the First Lady yelling at him for being a boorish rube who treats the White House furniture like it came from Rent-a-Center. Heh heh. Smirk. Heh heh. But, as always, it's when Bush talks about the hard work of presidenting that he really shines.

On holding fast to his principles and making tough decisionings: "The thing that's important for me is to get home and look in that mirror and say, 'I did not compromise my principles.' And I didn't. I made tough calls. And some presidencies have got a lot of tough decisions to make." That's right. Some presidencies do have tough decisions to make. And some presidencies don't, like the presidency of Millard Fillmore, 1850-1853, often known as the "Striped or Polka Dot Pantaloons Presidency".