20 January 2009: Morning

To mark the end of the Bush era, selections from eight years of presidential spoofery on TMN:

Using a special chemical process, the library is able to keep this section of the World Trade Center burning and producing thick, acrid smoke forever. Paul Ford tours the Presidential Library.

There are and there are not weapons of mass destruction; in 2003, Matthew Baldwin gave us a vision of Schrödinger's Iraq.

"What I need is you in office for another four years or else Operation God-Emperor With Bionic Cardiopulmonary System will never get off the ground."

In 2005, John Warner showed us life at home for White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.

In 2003, Matthew Baldwin peeled back the curtain on President Bush's government-mandated alternate reality.

Following the destruction of New Orleans, Ignatius J. Reilly (aka Matt Evans) delivered a parvum opus to the president.

Ashcroft: I'm on the board of a razor wire company and can vouch for their effectiveness. Joshua Allen took us behind the scenes of Bush's merging of border agencies.

Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner chronicled the run-up to the 2004 election: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5.

In 2006, Andrew Womack offered the president new nicknames for every Democrat in the House and Senate.

America's Next Top Model Democracy: "We took a chance on you, Hugo... We expected more."

Please find enclosed fifty cents. I am a lobbyist, this is a campaign contribution, and now I own you. Children's letters to George W. Bush.