You might have noticed that during interregnums there is a whole lot of dancing going on while nothing much gets done. One would think that Mr. Bush would be trying to burnish whatever credibility he might have left after all the lies and mistakes he has made. The movements on his side of the dance floor are sort of empty and meaningless. They match his vacuous look that is supposed to stand for Statesmanship. We all (and that includes the claque around him and his losing supporters in the recent election) know he is no statesman. We have had a few genuine ones over the years but mostly our leaders have no clue about the direction in which they should be leading. They are in the grip of worldwide movements over which they have no control. Ideas, good and bad, just don't seem to be able to get off the ground while we slide into chaos. When Mr. Bush gets up to strut his stuff there is not much to it.
His present dance partner (after trashing his own party stalwarts and being quite mum about the selection process of his successor) is, of course, the winner of that election - Barack Hussein Obama. It has been obvious since before the election that Mr. Bush had lost credibility - even within his own party. The government has shrunk down to guesses about what the power structure would look like after Mr. Obama took office. During this period of guessing the dance between Bush and Obama is in Limbo - hence the name of their dance, the Bush/Obama Limbo - the dance that goes nowhere.
Less than a real dance it is more like trading words about what could have been done, what should be done and what was promised to be done. This dance leaves all of us in a limbo of waiting until the power is passed from the old to the new. This period of emptiness, a limbo, is overwhelmed by the overwhelming problems nurtured by the Bush people in their pretence of knowing the will of the American People. The results of the election have shown what that will is. It is for change, at least for change from what the Bush brain tumor (I meant to say "trust" but it sounded funny) got us into.
The dance will stop with the inauguration and as an old Yiddish expression would have it, the "Tuchus afen tisch". We can't avoid the problems of wars we cannot easily get out of nor avoid the recession which has become world-wide. The elephant in the room is on that table and all the dancing around will not make it go away.