A: It’s no big deal. Has been done about every 4-8 years dozens of times now.
B: How often does this administration do anything competently?
C: How many times has Bush announced he’s doing something while actually doing the opposite, like all the things he praised in State of the Union addresses that he cut severely the very next budget? Also the promises that use of force would be a ‘last resort’ in Iraq and that he needed the authorization to provide diplomatic pressure.