How apt

My, my, my, it's Barry planting a tree at the White House in order to appease his liberal hippie base. Is that how desperate he is for positive attention these days, what with health care getting Liebermanned, not really doing a whole lot on Gitmo and all those "War on Terror" policies that Bush started, and gearing up to escalate the war in Afghanistan? We've already hit "cheap photo-op" time in October? What other possible reason...

The President will plant a Linden tree on the White House North Lawn.

Benjamin Harrison first planted a Scarlet Oak in 1889 in the same spot, but the tree, quite old and rotten inside, was split in half and downed in a 2007 rain storm. Former President George Bush replaced the tree with another Scarlet Oak in the same spot – but the White House says "it didn't take well” last year – so a new tree needed to be planted.

President Bush couldn't even plant a tree right? My, what an apt metaphor for his administration's terrible environmental record: he can't even do a rote photo-op with a tree without killing it dead. In honor of Dubya, his dead tree will be pulped and made into paper upon which a secret torture policy will be written along with notes from a meeting with oil executives. It will then be shredded in a ceremony involving a Dick Cheney impersonator.

See the thing about Bu...wait, did they say Linden tree? Obama planted a Linden tree? Dear God, I never thought I'd have an excuse to post this:



Now that's what the entire White House grounds are going to smell like.