Making a Case for the Blue States
Bush Goes On Vacation… Again…
On a day when fourteen Marines were killed in Iraq in the deadliest single bombing since the war began, George W. Bush, um, is going on vacation again. And we’re not talking about a two-week vacation like most of us get (personally, I haven’t had a chance to take a vacation at all yet this year), but a five week vacation. Sure, pro-Bush hacks say that “he’s not really vacationing all that time, he’s working,” but you might recall that it was during a similar vacation back in 2001 that Bush was too busy “clearing brush” on his ranch to take notice of a little memo entitled something like, “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within US.” I’d like to see Bush take a couple weeks of that vacation and go to Iraq to visit the troops that have had their tours of duty extended time and again due to the incompetence at the White House. Bush goes on his 319th day of vacation, and our boys and girls over in Iraq can’t even get home when promised to see their families. I wonder what they’d say if they were allowed to talk to anyone? Would it be, “our Commander-In-Chief deserves a five week vacation…” What was that Bush said about “working hard?” “We’re working hard for this, we’re working real hard for that.
Sure you are, Mr. Bush. Sure you are…
Gee, didn’t Congress go on vacation too. And for the whole month of August. Wow, isn’t that something. All our elected officials go on vacation during August.
Yeah, you’re right… Recess is recess, but no other president in the past few decades took as much vacation time as Bush does. Don’t you think the president of the United States should set a tone, particularly at a time when we’re fighting an elective war that his administration started, of industriousness… At a time when we’re instituting “stop loss” against our troops so that they continually have their tours of duty extended again and again, don’t you think the least the president could do is show that he’s really the Commander In Chief by staying at work until we figure out what to do in Iraq? Perhaps that’s not entirely practical — everyone needs a break once in a while, but does he really need FIVE weeks? Particularly at this time?? Yep… Recess is recess, and Georgie liked recess so much that he decided to take it for himself when it’s not even his class that got called to it.