🚀 go-pugleaf

Bolwerk wrote:
> 
> Jeffrey E. Salzberg wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Mike is just upset that Bush wasn't down there from day one,
> >>personally throwing sandbags on the levee.  Anything less than that
> >>isn't enough.
> >
> >
> > I'd've settled for military assistance arriving sooner than 4 days after
> > the hurricane.
> 
> If it comes down to only mere incompetence, I really can't say I'd be
> offended or surprised. The Bush administration has a long history of
> incompetence.

And being on vacation.

April 09, 2004

Bush sets vacation records for U.S. President

This week, as the U.S. military suffers some of its heaviest casualties
of 
the war and Iraq threatens to plunge into chaos, President Bush is 
vacationing at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.

While some Democrats criticized the president for leaving Washington
during 
the recent days of crisis, White House communications director Dan
Bartlett, 
according to the Washington Post, "retorted that Bush is 'not skiing' in 
Texas, as Kerry did on a recent vacation in Idaho."

By most accounts, Kerry isn't currently the commander in chief, or in
charge 
of running the country. Bush, Bartlett added in the Post, "remains in 
contact with his military advisers and is spending Easter weekend with
his 
family. 'Most Americans will understand that,'" he said.

The Post also took note of just how much time Bush has spent down on the 
ranch over the past three-plus years:

"This is Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since becoming president. He has 
spent all or part of 233 days on his Texas ranch since taking office, 
according to a tally by CBS News. Adding his 78 visits to Camp David and
his 
five visits to Kennebunkport, Maine, Bush has spent all or part of 500
days 
in office at one of his three retreats, or more than 40 percent of his 
presidency."

That 40 percent of his presidency, of course, included the day of August
6, 
2001, when Bush received a top-level intelligence briefing in Crawford 
titled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

-- 


Donald Rumsfeld: "If you're asking if there's a direct 
link between 9/11 and Iraq, the answer is no."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4865948/ 

On May 01, 2003, President Bush declared that, 
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

"I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- 
I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the 
interesting thing about being the president. 
Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they 
say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody 
an explanation. " 
- George "Dubya" Bush