To Be Announced...

I just love liberals when they're smarmy. Take for example, this story from Reuters...

Some of the T-shirts bear only the date: 01.20.09.

According to the story, liberals and others are selling gobs of T-shirts and stuff with that date printed on them...because it's the last day George W Bush is in office.

Let me say that I think it's a very creative, funny, and interesting idea and I hope they make a very healthy living and reap huge monetary rewards for thinking of the idea. But while I encourage them to continue to take advantage of the wonderful marketing opportunities, healthy economy, and overall support for capitalism we have currently in the US - I wonder how they sleep at night with the irony burning in their brains...

...along with an assortment of "Bush's Last Day" caps, mugs, bumper stickers, buttons, and other collectibles are seeing strong sales as politically minded U.S. gift givers stock up for this holiday season.

One of the most popular items is a pocket-sized clock that counts down the minutes -- and yes, seconds -- left in President George W. Bush's final term in office.

"We're close to selling a million pieces of assorted stuff. We'll hit that this Christmas season," said Elliott Nachwalter, 56, of Arlington, Vermont, who started the business about 18 months ago out of the back of his fly fishing store.

Nachwalter said Bush's Last Day was founded after outrage at the president' environmental policies spurred him to design a lapel button and then a bumper sticker that he shared with a few friends.

The same environmental policies that allow you to use the printing material necessary (ink and so forth), the petroleum-based plastic, the Big-Chemical company produced glue, the Big Oil fuel necessary to ship it...

The message is aimed at expressing frustration with, and opposition to, Bush's policies on the environment, the war in Iraq and an assortment of domestic issues, he said.

Which might also include tax policy? Probably not...he's not printing 01.01.11 bumper stickers to express his pleasure of the day Bush's tax cuts expire...

Nachwalter's business has grown from an online-only storefront to distribution through more than 300 retailers from California to the nation's capital in Washington. Business has picked up substantially since the mid-term elections, which showed Bush to be out of favour with a majority of Americans.

Let's hope he doesn't make too much money...for which he will be "out of favour" with a majority of Americans because he'll be one of "the rich"...