Crawford-Bound Bush Slams Congressional Vacation
With both the House and Senate in recess, President George W. Bush slammed the Democratic-led body Tuesday, saying Congress should get back to work…. “They need to come back, pass a bill,” said Bush during a press conference about Congress’ efforts to attach conditions for a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq to a war spending bill. The President said Congress’ traditional spring recess over Passover and Easter holidays has delayed the passage of emergency Iraq war funding…. “The Democrats in Congress ‚Äö√Ѭ∂ have left Washington for spring recess without finishing the work,” said Bush. “They need to come off their vacation, get a bill to my desk, and if it’s got strings and mandates and withdrawals and pork, I’ll veto it and then we can get down to business of getting this thing done,” he said.
Ironic, isn’t it, that the President who has so far spent more than a total of 13 MONTHS on vacation since stealing taking office has the chutzpah to criticize the Democratic-majority Congress for going on Easter break? By insisting that Congress come back from their Easter break just as he is about to leave for his ranch in Crawford, TX only serves as visible proof of the hypocrisy and monarchical air of entitlement that pervades Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader’s © reign of error.
Yes, Democrats certainly haven’t kept up with their promise to institute a five-day work week (a promise that incensed Congressional Republicans, by the way), But The Worst President EVER © hasn’t exactly gone out of his way to burn the midnight oil. And his grandstanding over the funding of his glorious war of oil liberation and freedom in Iraq is little more than bad political theater. The man knows full well that the prior Republican-controlled Congress took weeks to approve a bill funding the funding of his excellent adventure in Iraq.
Never mind the message sent by criticizing Congress for going on vacation just before he heads out on vacation himself. No, that’s not horse shit you’re smelling, though it’s close. That’s pure, unadulterated, self-righteous Republican hypocrisy…perhaps the most toxic substance known to mankind. The worst part of it is that there’s no known antidote.
President Bush plans to spend Thursday through Sunday at his ranch for an extended Easter weekend.
This will be Bush’s 63rd trip to his ranch since taking office. He has spent 405 days, either entirely or partially, at his ranch in Crawford, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio White House correspondent known for keeping meticulous records of the president’s vacation days.
In 2005, Bush was roundly criticized for taking a lengthy vacation of nearly five weeks away from the White House — one of the longest presidential retreats in at least 36 years — when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast and left New Orleans engulfed in floodwater.
…and while Rome burned, Nero fiddled….
In a 2006 Washington Post article, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Bush’s response to Katrina was one of the most damaging events of his presidency.
Oh, come on now; don’t be so melodramatic. Everyone knows that New Orleans is most just a bunch of poor, no-account black folk who wouldn’t vote Republican if you dipped their balls in Ben-Gay….
Personally, I don’t much care about how much time Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © spends in Crawford. With modern communications technology, millions of Americans telecommute, anyway- so why shouldn’t this sorry excuse for a President? What he and his staff fail to realize is the message that his frequent “working vacations” send- that, noblesse oblige being what it is, this President can do whatever he chooses.
Ah, it’s good to be King, isn’t it??
