Working Hard or Hardly Working?
Melanie notes that according to a report in the Washington Post as of Monday the Shrubbery has spent 365 days at Camp David and 405 days in Crawford.
When you throw in all of his political trips, I’m not sure he makes the cut for full-time employment. We should rent out the White House and try to make some money on it, because the Shrubbery is treating it like a time-share.
With two wars in progress and the so-called Global War on Terrorism™ most Presidents would spend some time at the office.
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So out of the six years this lout has been presidentin’, more than two of them have been spent at one or the other of his vacation hangouts. Disgusting. This is what he wants us to believe is “hard work”? Hell, I get close to five weeks of vacation time a year, which is great–but I hardly ever get a chance to take more than about a week or two of it. At least with the new job, I don’t lose it at the end of the fiscal year anymore. But I’d sure love to have a contract that would let me take a third of my time off of work!
I received 30 days a year in the military but holidays and weekends were deducted from your leave bank like any other day. After 8 years I turned in 60 days when I was discharged.
In law enforcement I started with two weeks, but was around long enough to start earning four weeks per year, but I turned in 8 weeks when I left after a decade.
It’s one thing to accrue the time, and another to actually be able to take it, as you note.
No one gets this much time off and still gets paid a full salary.
The less time Bush spends working the better, if you ask me. I just wish he’d insist that Cheney vacation with him.
I’d make it a PERMANENT retreat at Crawford…after suitable jail time for all his crimes!
Just brick the whole clan in the Crawford ranchette and catapult cows over the wall once a week.
The Moron n’ Thief can end vacation early to politicize a woman in a vegetative state but he can’t seem to go off vacation while a historic American cities drowns.
There is something very psychologically, pathologically wrong with him and this “yes” men. They need more vacation. Permanent vacations. Preferably somewhere in Turkey with bars for doors and windows.
Why go through all the crap to get a job you don’t want? Nothing about these people make sense.
Oh, he’s so totally selling off the ranchette as soon as he’s out of office. Once he no longer needs to hornswoggle the voting public into believing he’s “just folks” I’m sure he’ll go hole up in Jackson Hole or some other similar highfalutin’ place. He only bought the ranch just before the 2000 elections so he’d have a plausible “common man” front to put up.
What’s a “vacation”?
I am unfamiliar with that term.
I’ve heard rumors of Paraguay in the former dictators area, Michael. It’s not likely he’ll hang around anywhere that accepts US subpoenas unless he pardons himself as his last act in office.
Andante, it a European custom that never made it to the US.