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Record Breaker! Bush Takes Most Vacation Days For Sitting President

Mar 11, 2008


(UWIRE.com) This story was written by Beau Elliot, The Daily Iowan

President Bush recently spent his 879th day at his ranch in Crawford,
Texas, since the Supreme Court, in all its great wisdom, elevated him
to the presidency. This according to NPR's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me,"
which noted that Bush broke former President Reagan's record for
taking vacations from the White House.rIt's interesting to recall, all
these wild years later, that George W. Bush did not decide to buy the
ranch near Crawford until after he decided to run for president.
Apparently, after Ronald Reagan's example, it seemed presidential to
cut brush on a ranch, and Bush was seeking a brush with history. Or
something.

Or maybe Karl Rove decided Bush should buy a ranch. (Easy for him to
decide - it wasn't his money.) Somebody should have asked the
Architect about this when he was here Sunday. Then the Rove-meister
could have told questioner that he had a simple, untended brain. Rove,
as it turns out, is an expert on simple, untended brains.

The occasion for NPR to comment on the vacationing habits of Bush (and
Reagan) was the curious pas de deux last week between our fearless
leader and John McCain, who would very much like to become our next
fearless leader. McCain, of course, will be the GOP presidential
candidate, barring a collapse worthy of the 2004 New York Yankees, and
he was at the White House to be anointed by Bush.

What made the event curious - bizarre, according to some observers,
but you know how the infamous "some observers" are - was the
tap-dancing between Bush and McCain. First, Bush actually did perform
a tap dance for reporters because McCain was late (the well-oiled
McCain machine rolls on - no word yet on whether Bush will join the
vaudeville circuit after leaving the White House [some would say his
time in the West Wing has been the vaudeville circuit]), then McCain
seemed to tap-dance, verbally, away from the president. Around a dozen
or so times, McCain noted that Bush's "busy schedule" would probably
keep him from campaigning for the Arizona senator.

No, really. You know, the "busy schedule" that has room for 879 days
down on the ranch - which, if you're into arithmetic, works out to
around 30 percent of eight years.

Maybe Bush's legacy will be "the 70 percent solution."

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