What the Hell is * doing in Crawford AGAIN? Does this guy ever

[Sperk]

work? Is anyone keeping track of his days away from Washington. I think there is a direct link between his mental state and the number of days away.

[whistle]

1. Shrub has a favor bitch....among his herd of sheep!

[Kansas Wyatt]

5. Shrub has no livestock on his fake pig farm.

The farm buildings, equipment, and hay bales are only MSM props for his fake identity.

[MADem]

2. It would be worse if he DID work, I think

And the only stock he has on that ranch are the dogs and the cat. Watch out, Miz Beasley...invite Santorum over for some man on dog protection!

[pacalo]

3. He likes to drink in the privacy of his house in the wide open spaces.

[DearAbby]

4. Clearing Brush...Never ending job on a Bush Brush Ranch

:evilgrin:

[TwentyFive]

6. Pickles makes him go back to Crawford. It keeps him away from Condi.

Pickles gets pissed off about the all nighters * and Condi have in that side room off the Oval office.

[DIKB]

7. He's sensitive

Whenever his feelings get hurt he has to run to the comfort of his ranch. It's the faux-cowboy thing, he feels the need to toughen up a bit, but it never lasts long, b/c he's just a little spoiled child.

It's expected that he would go to the ranch after the Pope's funeral. How would you feel if a bunch of people were able to overcome their grief-stricken state to show how much they hated you ?

I think in some odd way, * was right. The pope's funeral will be the highlight of his pResidency. Millions of people HATING him more than they loved an icon, a religious leader, a messenger of peace, etc.


TO ALL THE FREEPER LURKERS:

The world HATES Shrub, as does most of the U.S. Maybe it's time to wake up from your little partisan/fundie influenced fantasy.

[Lisa]

9. it was kind of sad, to read about him gloating over the scenery ...

It was as if he couldn't appreciate natural beauty unless he felt he could own or control it in some way. Even the waterfall down by the creek was only prized because he was hoping to make Jenna have her wedding there someday. The wedding party would be standing in the creek (uncomfortable even when it runs almost dry in the summer -- downright dangerous in the winter and spring). But * didn't care, since it was all about him -- his little girl's wedding, his waterfall, his ranch.

He talks about this in terms of public policy too -- e.g. that the only people who "really understand" the land (and resources, of course) are the ones who are wealthy enough to purchase it. He really doesn't understand the concept of public lands, sharing, and how important "un-owned" wilderness is to the North American psyche.

[leveymg]

8. Ariel's Bunkin Out for a Couple Days, Then Abdullah Comes a Visitin

They're plannin a li'l shindig fur Joon in I-RAN.

Ye-hah. They's a goin be pale horse in the sky.

:bounce: :nuke: :evilgrin:

[Up2Late]

10. It would difficult to figure when he's NOT on vacation, here's a few #'s

I'd say ALL the time he's on his Road trips Campaigning for re-selection and pushing his "Snake Oil" "Plans" should be counted too.

I don't think "Hard work" is a Bush Family value. Here's some numbers from an article written Apr 22 2004 for Counterbias .com by Doug Griffin. Check out how much his Daddy took too (almost 1 1/2 years).

<http://www.counterbias.com/017.html>

...Where is that moral indignation that the electorate used to rationalize electing Bush 43 in the first place? Perhaps it's the stress of being a "wartime" president. Maybe peacetime presidents vacation more than wartime presidents. Don't they? Surely that philandering Bill Clinton took more vacations. There's no way that the current President Bush has taken more vacation days than President Clinton. Right?

Here are the vacations of record by the current and previous 4 administrations: Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II.

President Jimmy Carter (D) Georgia:

79 Days (over 1 term - 4 years)

President Ronald Reagan (R) California:

335 days (over 2 terms - 8 years)


President George H. W. Bush (R) Texas:

543 days (over 1 term - 4 years):crazy:

President William J. Clinton (D) Arkansas:

152 days (over 2 terms - 8 years)

:hi:President George W. Bush (R) Texas: :hi:

250 days (as of Aug. '03, less than one term!)

Okay, so Dubya hasn't vacationed half as much as his father who served only one term as president, but thus far has outpaced Ronald Reagan. The striking contrast comes when comparing Bush II to the two Democratic Presidents on the list. Combined, the total vacation days taken by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton (231 days over twelve years) fall short of the current President Bush who has yet to finish a full four-year term, and he's already vacationed a whopping 250 days and counting. Indeed, comparing the twelve years under Carter and Clinton (the Democrats) to the twelve years under Reagan and Bush I (the Republicans) is a rather telling statistic: The Democrats (those lazy liberals) seem to work a lot more for the country than the Republicans do. Single-handedly, the Republicans have taken more vacation days each than the combined total of Presidents Carter and Clinton. But neither Ronald Reagan nor George H. W. Bush was president when we were attacked on September 11, 2001. Bush 42 was. Unfortunately, he still is...

[FloridaPat]

11. No one has kept track since his first year when he spent 40% of his

time on vacation. And got paid $400,000. I read recently Americans have the shortest vacation in the industrialized nations - a crummy 2 weeks. Europe is around 4-6 months.