After eight years of running politics and being taken out to fancy dinners by lobbyists, how will DC Republican officials deal with next week's inauguration, the official end to the duty-free days of the Bush administration? Easy: they don't. Time to pack up the bags and take a vacation, preferably until this Obama guy is out of the White House. Here's where the GOP will go during the festivities.

Las Vegas
Odds are good that the only people who still have money after the last eight years are going to want to go out with style. Already, Republican lawyer and fundraisers Charlie and Lisa Spies are organizing an "Inaugural in Exile" in Sin City, according to Politico. Plus, there's no better metaphor for neo-cons than the old Vegas-ism that when the chips are down, raise the stakes and toast yourself to beating the house at least once. Which is exactly what Karl Rove and his cronies will be doing.

Canada
Hey, we all promised to do it in 2004 if Bush won his second term, now it's the conservatives turn to make idle threats about leaving America for our neighbors up north. We need to hold Stephen Baldwin to his word.

Florida
Why Florida? Why not Florida? It was the last stand of the Alamo in 2000, and Republicans can laugh in the sun at all the poor schmoes freezing their asses off back in DC. The New Hope (Jeb Bush) might be around, and Tucker Bounds has already promised to show up, provided that Campbell Brown stay 500 feet away from him at all times.

Stay In DC
The easiest, although most humbling choice, many Republicans and conservatives plan on staying for the pre-inaugural festivities, if not the event itself (I mean there's going to be that whole distasteful gay bishop thing going on). But there are at least three inaugural bi-partisan dinners being held the 19th in DC, and one of them is to celebrate Collin Powell, Joe Biden and second-placer John McCain, so you know that place is going to be party central.

Texas
Welp, we know at least one guy who'll be going there:

"I'll give some speeches, just to replenish the ol' coffers," Mr Bush told Robert Draper, author of Dead Certain: The Presidency of George Bush.

Mr Bush says he "can just envision getting in the car, getting bored, going down to the ranch" in Texas.

I have this weird vision of a bunch of bedraggled conservatives hobbling in from all over America to find themselves in front of George Bush's porch while he sits in a rocking chair and talks about the upcoming war between good and evil. Like in The Stand, with George Bush as the old black woman prophet, except way less coherent and way more gullible.