O Henry.

From Henry Rollins in Vanity Fair: 

The Bush team is packing up the big tent, and all the trapeze artists, elephants, and clowns are looking for work elsewhere. Meanwhile, Bush-team players are furiously writing a new history of our recent past, attempting to hose off the blood and put a smiling face on that sucking chest wound that we all call the last eight years. The outgoing president has been making the rounds, pressing the flesh, dodging shoes and direct questions as he attempts to tell us that it’s been a really swell, albeit challenging, two terms and that he and his worthy colleagues have had nothing but our safety and well-being in mind. Over all, he feels pretty good about things. In this very transparent and poorly planned hijacking of the truth, the president has been making some of the most confusing and conflicting statements of his entire career.

More Henry here.