This guy's work ethic would get him fired anywhere if it wasn't for Pappy.

Double-check the White House silverware on the 20th. Just sayin'.

I hear he's going to have Air Force One make one more low-altitude pass over New Orleans just for shiats and giggles, too.

Saborlas: This guy's work ethic would get him fired anywhere if it wasn't for Pappy.

In the past his companies have either filed for bankruptcy or been sold off after he ran them into the ground. As far as I've been able to discover, he has never ran anything successfully.

"Now watch this drive!"

"How will George Bush spend his last days in office? The same way he spent one-third of his term: on vacation. Presidentin's hard work"

If only he'd spent the other 2/3's of his time on vacation as well.
This country would be that much better off for it.

rcain: If only he'd spent the other 2/3's of his time on vacation as well.
This country would be that much better off for it.

Unless it was actually Cheney all along...

Meh. Anyone who can't get be incommunicado and sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years because they're really on-call 24/7 can have a few days doing whatever. I hope Obama spends an equal amount of time in Hawaii to chill and think things through. For all its glory, it's a pretty shiat job for the pay.

Good... I hope he stays as far as possible from any sort of responsibility. I honestly don't want to see the damage he can cause in 4 days.

Keep him away as long as possible, I say. If he doesn't sign anything, he can't screw anything else up.

Outtaphase: Meh. Anyone who can't get be incommunicado and sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years because they're really on-call 24/7 can have a few days doing whatever. I hope Obama spends an equal amount of time in Hawaii to chill and think things through. For all its glory, it's a pretty shiat job for the pay.

As President of the United States he's my employee, and the employee of every voting citizen of this country. I don't want him slacking off when he needs to be fixing the horrible mess his predecessor left us with. He can get some vacation days once he's been working a while. And none of this crap about his kids being sick so he can't come in. Holiday pay for Valentines day? I won't hear of it!

/you know how uppity presidents get when you give them too much leeway
//I'm looking at you, Nixon

JohnnyC: As far as I've been able to discover, he has never ran anything successfully.

He wasn't terrible in Texas. Well, not completely terrible.

Outtaphase: Meh. Anyone who can't get be incommunicado and sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years because they're really on-call 24/7 can have a few days doing whatever. I hope Obama spends an equal amount of time in Hawaii to chill and think things through. For all its glory, it's a pretty shiat job for the pay.

Yeah, but the pay isn't exactly why people seek the job.

The President is never really "on vacation", he is always on the job.

Get over it LIB-mitter.

Outtaphase: Meh. Anyone who can't get be incommunicado and sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years because they're really on-call 24/7 can have a few days doing whatever. I hope Obama spends an equal amount of time in Hawaii to chill and think things through. For all its glory, it's a pretty shiat job for the pay.

Are you serious? A sitting president that has 2 wars is entitle to 977 days on vacation?

All work and no play make Johnny bush a dull boy

Gated Community Organizer: The President is never really "on vacation", he is always on the job.

Get over it LIB-mitter.

I have to agree, but past revelations of Bush's work ethic has already done the damage

shiat faced drunk.

/like the past few years.

Pascal's Bookie: Outtaphase: Meh. Anyone who can't get be incommunicado and sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years because they're really on-call 24/7 can have a few days doing whatever. I hope Obama spends an equal amount of time in Hawaii to chill and think things through. For all its glory, it's a pretty shiat job for the pay.

Yeah, but the pay isn't exactly why people seek the job.

Yep. And I'm fairly certain that anyone who's dumb enough to run for president has a pretty good idea of what they're getting themselves into. I don't want to hear any of this "But give me a vacation because being president is haaaaaard" bullshiat.

Gated Community Organizer: Get over it LIB-mitter.

You say that like being a Liberal is a bad thing.

Gated Community Organizer: The President is never really "on vacation", he is always on the job.

Get over it LIB-mitter.

Clearing brush isn't part of the President's job. That's what we have illegal immigrants for. In fact all that vacationing probably allowed a lot more of them into the country, if it makes you feel more outraged about it.

Falcc: As President of the United States he's my employee

Pascal's Bookie: Yeah, but

DoWhatNowToWhat: Are you serious?

Tsunami Ditka: Yep. And I'm fairly certain that anyone who's dumb enough

Sorry guys, I wasn't trying to make a partisan statement, just a general observation. I did a 24/7 gig for 2 years once, never again.

Personally, I have doubts as to how much Bush wanted this gig once he found out about the reality. I think Obama will have his days too. These people's egos are bigger than their appetites, to a certain degree.

Outtaphase: I have doubts as to how much Bush wanted this gig once he found out about the reality.


You don't think having his father as VP for 8 years and as POTUS for 4 gave him any insight to the reality of the office.

Plus he was Governor of Texas.


Now Mr. Obama might have a little bit of a shock, considering he has never really ever had a real job yet.

Gated Community Organizer: You don't think having his father as VP for 8 years and as POTUS for 4 gave him any insight to the reality of the office.

I think it should have.

Gated Community Organizer -- "The President is never really "on vacation", he is always on the job. Get over it LIB-mitter."

Yeah, Bush worked hard 24/7 -- 24 hours a week, 7 months a year.

Outtaphase: Gated Community Organizer: You don't think having his father as VP for 8 years and as POTUS for 4 gave him any insight to the reality of the office.

I think it should have.

it certainly SHOULD have. However, it didn't.

Do you think Bush is drinking again? It wouldn't surprise me, he seems to have degenerated in the last couple years.

The President does not get vacation s/he is President 24/7 365 no matter where in the world they are, Also The Senate & Congress follow the same "vacation" schedule as the President and had the same amount of time and days away from Washington.

JohnnyC: In the past his companies have either filed for bankruptcy or been sold off after he ran them into the ground. As far as I've been able to discover, he has never ran anything successfully.

I have just seen America's future, and I shudder.

bartink: He wasn't terrible in Texas. Well, not completely terrible.

Weren't more prisoners executed under his watch in Texas than under any other governor in any state in U.S. history?

Bush has signed off on 135 executions since he took office in 1995, about one death every two weeks. In his first term of four years, seventy-nine people died. By contrast, Bush's predecessor, Ann Richards, approved fifty executions in her term as governor.

Yeah... that's pretty gruesome. But there is more...

Knowing that Texas voters like to see convicts pay the ultimate price, Bush has made a priority of cutting out some of the red tape involved in actually killing a condemned prisoner. On the campaign trail in 1994, he promised to shorten the time taken for death-row appeals, and he followed up as soon as he took office. He has since gone out of his way to oppose bills that might have slowed the pace of executions, and he has given a reprieve or a commutation only twice, proof of his deep faith in the system in Texas that finds alleged murderers and sends them to their deaths.

So not only did he sign off on those deaths, him and Alberto Gonzales (who worked for Bush when he was a governor and did a lot of his legal work) figured out ways to fast track sending people to their deaths and making sure they wouldn't have time to appeal their cases. Now... I'm not saying those people were innocent of their crimes, but considering how many people have been released due to DNA evidence now proving them innocent, there is definitely the possibility that he sent at least one if not more innocent people to their deaths.

So maybe you don't think he was terrible, but I think he was terrible... at everything he has ever had handed to him.

attackingpencil: Do you think Bush is drinking again? It wouldn't surprise me, he seems to have degenerated in the last couple years.

I think in the next 10 years, some crazy shiat will come out. I've watched him speak at times and I just KNOW something ain't right.

Outtaphase: can't get sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years

How certain are you about that?

co-conspirator: How certain are you about that?

Right. Should not have.

0/2, I guess.

As Bush's farewell address yesterday was virtually ignored because of the US Airways "miracle", I reflected on how odd it was that an air crash in New York defined his presidency at its beginning, and then another air crash in New York overshadowed his exit at its end.

Funny how life seems to follow cycles like that sometimes.

gilgigamesh: As Bush's farewell address yesterday was virtually ignored because of the US Airways "miracle", I reflected on how odd it was that an air crash in New York defined his presidency at its beginning, and then another air crash in New York overshadowed his exit at its end.

Funny how life seems to follow cycles like that sometimes.

How about how the 1st Responders responded? That is a result of Homeland Security and the quest for every state to establish strict protocols and training regimens for disasters . So while it overshadowed his address, he had something to do with the success of the rescue.


/hate away

Gated Community Organizer: That is a result of Homeland Security

So you're simultaneously hailing the success of another bloated government program (and defending the wasteful use of our tax dollars to ship W off to Texas to play cowboy one out of every three days he works for us), but biatching about the submitter being a "liberal." Beautiful.

gilgigamesh:
Don't forget about his first major foreign policy/affairs 'disaster'
The EP-3 spy plane that was stranded in China
Trifecta over 8 years?

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: So you're simultaneously hailing the success of another bloated government program (and defending the wasteful use of our tax dollars to ship W off to Texas to play cowboy one out of every three days he works for us), but biatching about the submitter being a "liberal." Beautiful.

That is some weak ass spin.

Saborlas: This guy's work ethic would get him fired anywhere if it wasn't for Pappy.

Actually, I can't blame him for taking a vacation at this point. He's humped a bunk for the last eight years - what's another day or two?

I'll be surprised, personally, if he doesn't check into the Betty Ford Center for the Perpetually Befuddled on the 21st. Forty-something other folks before him are wincing at this schmuck's "legacy."

On Wednesday, send George "shiatstain" Bush to The Hague.

Bucky Katt: On Wednesday, send George "shiatstain" Bush to The Hague.

Dubya, and everyone else in the Cheney administration, will walk free and clear on 21 Jan 09.

That would be the first-responder funding for urban centers that Bush gutted^*, and that Congress fought to re-authorize?

Heckuva job.

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^* Wyoming received $14.80/person. NY received $2.80.

Now That's What I Call a Taco!: Gated Community Organizer: That is a result of Homeland Security

So you're simultaneously hailing the success of another bloated government program (and defending the wasteful use of our tax dollars to ship W off to Texas to play cowboy one out of every three days he works for us), but biatching about the submitter being a "liberal." Beautiful.

They only care that he is on their team. That is all. Fallacies and indefensible defenses will follow. He need only have that (R) after his name.

Clinton would be god for them if he would have been a republican.

co-conspirator: Outtaphase: can't get sloppy shiat-faced even once for 8 years

How certain are you about that?



/ Bill Frist diagnosis

Bush .... a shiat stain on America.

/wipe that puppy clean already!

Oh this is such a laugh riot. You people just cannot learn that there's really no such thing as being 'on vacation' while President can you?

How will George Bush spend his last days in office? The same way he spent one-third of his term: on vacation. Presidentin's Pretzeldentin's hard work

Pet peeve

Let's just make sure we keep the perspective clear here.

The average American gets two weeks of vacation a year. That sums to 16 weeks - four months - of time off during Bush's term.

Bush took more than TWO AND A HALF YEARS.

Why are more people not waving flaming torches and pitchforks outside the White House? Other than they can't get any time off to go do it, I mean.

Gated Community Organizer: Outtaphase: I have doubts as to how much Bush wanted this gig once he found out about the reality.


You don't think having his father as VP for 8 years and as POTUS for 4 gave him any insight to the reality of the office.

Plus he was Governor of Texas.


Now Mr. Obama might have a little bit of a shock, considering he has never really ever had a real job yet.

Nice troll. 1/10. Bush could barely read my pet goat. What are you going to do come Wed next week. Your time is done, enjoy the slip into obscurity.

bartink: JohnnyC: As far as I've been able to discover, he has never ran anything successfully.

He wasn't terrible in Texas. Well, not completely terrible.

The Governor of Texas has no power.

Gated Community Organizer: gilgigamesh: As Bush's farewell address yesterday was virtually ignored because of the US Airways "miracle", I reflected on how odd it was that an air crash in New York defined his presidency at its beginning, and then another air crash in New York overshadowed his exit at its end.

Funny how life seems to follow cycles like that sometimes.

How about how the 1st Responders responded? That is a result of Homeland Security and the quest for every state to establish strict protocols and training regimens for disasters . So while it overshadowed his address, he had something to do with the success of the rescue.


/hate away

Well, except for cutting funding for 1st responders.

/Wut?