When Bush-Family Fixer James Baker III was thawed out and put to work on an Iraq exit strategy, we figured Bush 41 had effectively won the battle with Bush 43’s unpleasant gang.

But we had no idea just how shameful it’s going to be for the White House. See the evidence, after the jump.

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Whenever the Bush Family faces a serious crisis, technicians carefully remove family-fixer James Baker III from his cryogenic chamber deep beneath the U.S. Naval Observatory and begin the painstaking process of thawing him back to “life.”

Whether managing Poppy Bush’s campaigns, actually running the Reagan White House or even ensuring a Florida victory for Junior, Baker is the man for the job. This time, his mission is to “fix” the Iraq Occupation in time to protect the White House from an assault by a Democrat-controlled Congress.

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Oh look, they brought in a gray-beard. James Baker, the offical Bush Family Gray Beard, is here to placate Congress and encourage more stories about how shake-ups are really shaking things up and oh how much more up could this White House be shaken? Not much more up, that’s for sure! The Times has already compared it to LBJ and Acheson! “The analogy is far from perfect,” they acknowledge, mostly because it’s a stupid and inapplicable analogy, but it was fun to make anyway. The piece is short on details of what Baker will actually be doing, and long on anonymous people claiming that this’ll really shake things up. MORE »