(There must be a great Oz word for scuttlebutt..)

- that Obama is eschewing any 'partnering' with Admin. This evidenced by his opting out of the upcoming Econ confab, which he could attend - but won't. We can see the +/-s there.

Credibility? Bush's??
Now as to Shrub's motives in being nice ... we gets no data.
(Off hand though, I can easily imagine that he wishes he Could just hand this rotting-potato over on Friday, grab a chainsaw and head for Crawford and some therapeutic bush, er brush cutting.)

'Member that rocket pilot, mentioned in Slaughterhouse Five, "who accidentally hit the wrong button and destroyed the Universe" ... ? Maybe Shrub would have to take a drink, again; make it 4 or 5 of those -- for it-all to finally sink in. Just a WAG.

There is NO believable public info on the state of his psyche, for all obv. reasons.

I merely suppose.. that a study of the typ. 'dry-drunk' mindset suggests the voluminous means by which such a person hides from himself ... the consequences of 'gut-level' decisions piled atop previous. {ugh}

I'd imagine, therefore -- the poor bastard would Love to cut & run (precisely opposite to his constructed public persona) ie.

I 'Know' NOTHING about the manifestly sorry-state of his jelloware.
Supposition is all we ever get. As re. most every public figure(-head.)

:-(