Welcome to Countdown
Countdown to Crawford is a new blog The Times is launching today to chronicle the last days and the last actions of the Bush administration.
Countdown will offer items about the White House and federal agencies -- not as commentaries but as observations on the political scene -- and added coverage to our already in-depth reporting.
Below you will see dozens of posts from the last few weeks when we were "blogging in the dark" and trying out this new platform. Feel free to scroll down and dig through our archives. There are plenty of stories regarding the president's European trip, where he met royalty and the pope.
Expect several posts a day from our reporters in D.C. and around the nation.
Although the official URL of the blog is pretty long, we have created an easy-to-remember shortcut: latimes.com/bush
We look forward to your comments, your insights and your opinions going forward, and welcome your feedback.
Photo: Saul Loeb AFP/Getty Images
Better names would be 'Countdown to Teheran (and matial law, with no elections),' 'Countdown to Paraguay (as he's recently reportedly bought 1 million acres or so of watershed to the Parana River there - - - and, they have no extradition treaty with the US)' or 'Countdown to Armageddon.'
Posted by: brian | June 17, 2008 at 12:10 PM
This should be good
Posted by: Rosemary Gardner | June 17, 2008 at 05:53 PM
How about "countdown to the next administration"
Get over the Bush bashing, we didn't get into the mess we are in just in the past 8 years, more like the past 30-40 years of political gamining
We have real issues facing our country that need to be addresses honestly
by either Obama or McCain
To date I haven't seen enough from either to have confidence that anything will really change for the better.
Posted by: Jim | June 17, 2008 at 06:30 PM
James and Johanna:
Your 'countdown blog' needs a 'countdown clock.' In that way, we readers will know how many more days we must endure this slow motion trainwreck.
Posted by: mp | June 17, 2008 at 06:58 PM
What makes you think these people are leaving? They are guilty of crimes against the Constitution and the world for which they must be held accountable. In fact your paper was complicit in the propaganda used by this Administration to justify an illegal/immoral war.
Posted by: ed kriner | June 18, 2008 at 08:26 AM