WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tragedy struck today, on the eve of President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration, when outgoing President George W. Bush suddenly exploded. Details are still sketchy at the moment, but it would appear that Bush, today, came to the realization that he would no longer be President and “would hold his breath until he turned blue.” Secret service officials report that this has happened frequently over the past eight years and that the President’s mother and former First Lady, Barbara Bush was usually on hand to console her son as she often did when her husband held the office. A distraught Vice President, Dick Cheney was lead away in tears, rumored to have been mubling, “Goddamn Hammas, always blowing stuff up. I wanted to take him quail hunting. Does this mean I’m charge now?” Tomorrow’s inauguration will continue as scheduled.