I second galileogirl’s answer. First off, Bush has 112 days left until he’s out of office. Second, his successor will be elected in 35 days (or appointed within 71 if historical precedent tells us anything). Either way, he’s in no danger of losing his job because right now, he’s the one the President needs to keep screaming that the sky is falling so all his former co-workers over at Goldman Sachs will get to keep their mansions and cars, so the President isn’t going to fire him, and it would be politically stupid for Democrats to waste their time trying to remove him (and spending taxpayer money to do it) when he’ll be out on his ass in less than 4 months. Especially since signs point to Obama having about an 83% chance of winning the election, and we know that even if McCain pulls off the impossible, he’s not going to want to keep himself tied to Bush’s legacy, so out he goes. His appointment will expire at noon on 1/20/09…the only reason it wouldn’t would be if the Bush Administration cared about conflicts of interest, and one has to wonder if that term is even in their vocabulary after Thomas and Scalia appointed Bush to the Presidency in 2000, and after Cheney drew a severance package from Halliburton for his first 5 years in office while letting them have billions in no bid contracts.