Rachel Maddow has been all over this story (see video above), which is being referred to as Bush’s “final insult.” Let’s hope so:

The veil is lifted. We now know who is booked at Blair House, kicking President-elect Barack Obama and his family to the waiting list and across Lafayette Square to the Hay-Adams Hotel.

The only overnight visitor at the presidential guest manse is none other than John Howard, a former Australian prime minister and leading member of President Bush’s coalition of the willing in Iraq.

Howard and his entourage will be bunking at Blair House on Jan. 12, the night before he, former British prime minister Tony Blair and Colombian President Álvaro Uribe are to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bush, said Sally McDonough, a spokeswoman for first lady Laura Bush.

First Lady Laura Bush also has a daytime event scheduled in the facility this week.

The Obamas needed to move into Blair House early because their daughters needed to start school on Jan. 5.