Bush leaves for ‘working trip’ to Crawford.
By on Apr 4th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Bush leaves for ‘working trip’ to Crawford.
Yesterday, CNN’s Suzanne Malveaux spoke with White House spokeswoman Dana Perino asked her why, if President Bush is expressing a sense of urgency about the Iraq bill, did he leave for Crawford? Perino responded:
“The President is taking a short weekend break at Crawford. … He’ll be working throughout the weekend. As you know Suzanne, you’ve been there many times, those are working trips.”
[flv http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/04/workingtrips.320.240.flv]
The media reports, “The president is heading to Crawford Wednesday for a little relaxation.”
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the swichgrass must be getting tall….
April 4th, 2007 at 12:26 pmBye.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:26 pmThere is a lot of brush to clear.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pm“Well, you know…I’m going to look at some stuff and then I’m going to look at some other stuff.”
April 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmI believe this will make a total of 410 vacation days. Go ahead and sopurce me on this.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmhttp://oldhacks.blogspot.com/
You guys see Rove getting pelted and booed in washington? Its on my blog
April 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmthis thing just keeps lying. this thing just keeps violating laws, this
thing is a criminal, this thing is totally corrupted
choosen to be the faithful public servant to serve the people, CHRISTMAS
MONEY, he’s a crook, in fact i’m beginning to believe theirs a heck of a lot
of empty promises and there’s a heck of a lot of corruption going on.
tell me one thing bush has done to serve the average citizen. i would
April 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pmsay your lucky if you get a penny back on a dollar and mcdonalds provides
superior service compared to these……. these things, all a bunch of
crooks. ABSOLUTELY CORRUPTION IS VERY MUCH A REALITY, ENOUGH TO
MAKE EVERY p**e :)
Ummm, SOURCE.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:30 pmTime to go play “cowboy” and pretend you’re a real Texan.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:31 pmTotally phoning it in at this point. Good luck to those who live in the USA.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pmI always start my “short weekend break” Tuesday.
Chimpy is in Fantasy Land with McCain.
-GSD
April 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pmMmmmm…Dana Perino and Suzanne Malveaux. Me likey!
(But seriously, the President is a putz, but I’m not sure this is really worth the bandwidth other than to check out these 2 hotties).
April 4th, 2007 at 12:32 pmOne time the Deciderator© went to Crawford, he ignored the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike USA” memo. Then there was the time he went to Crawford and ignored hurricane Katrina. What in the hell are we in for now???
April 4th, 2007 at 12:33 pmIt seems our Government takes breaks like the Europeans! Meanwhile, the rest of us are lucky if we get a couple of weeks vacation time per year.
*sigh*
April 4th, 2007 at 12:34 pmMust have some Jack Daniels stashed away in the brush.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:34 pmLot of stallions to be milked
April 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pm“The President is taking a short weekend break at Crawford. … He’ll be working throughout the weekend….”
Doesn’t the “weekend” start after work on Friday? Could it be that the rest of us are using the wrong definition? Time must be viewed differently in Texas or perhaps in bush’s mind!
April 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pmApparently, Mexico has good meats.Now he’s right on the border again..
April 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pmCuttin’ brush is hard work….
Heh.
Off to a long day at school — have fun everyone!
April 4th, 2007 at 12:35 pmYa I saw one of his working trips to crawford in Fahrenheit 911 … he was stuffing food in his mouth and shootin the shit with friends.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmthinkprogress.org is so freaking dishonest and the wackos on the left buy into their lies….
Whether it was Clinton, Reagan, Carter, or now Bush, when a President goes on vacation, they are really not on vacation. As anyone with one ounce of education and logic knows, the job of the President is 24/7, doesn’t matter what party the President belongs to.
In fac, the vacation house of any President has always been turned into a mini-White House with a situation room, press room, etc, etc….
why the lies and dishonesty thinkprogress.org, are you guys so desperate and so unsure about 2008 that you feel that you must lie in order to get what you want?
or are you guys just laughing at the stupidity of the extreme left wing wackos that buy your lies? or maybe both…..
April 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmcrooks i say, complete criminals at the highest level. playing politics
April 4th, 2007 at 12:37 pmwith lavishness and back room deals. i don’t thing any of these
birds deserve anything until they do a acceptable job to serve
the american people….. instead it’s one crook after the next,
criminal bahavior and the elfs pot become their piggy bank with
a open check book to swindle us… can’t even get congress to
work more than tuesday evening through thursday morning,
what a crock. these birds have 17 hours available in a day x 7,
that’s 120 hours, they can’t even fill a 45 hour week, it’s more
like half that amount DISGUSTING
Yeah, looking for some powder to stuff up his nose.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:38 pmDidn’t he bring a pen? He could sign the funding bill over this extended weekend. Or he could sign the veto. Don’t they have pens in Texas?
April 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pmHey you guys quit pestering dear leader and wasting his time he has a war to win against some cedar and last time he got a scratch that almost required surgery at Walter Reid!
/sarcasm on
Hey Zooey no chewing gum in class! =)
April 4th, 2007 at 12:39 pmdo you that thing bush decided either monday or tuesday to take
April 4th, 2007 at 12:40 pmthe rest of this week off, weekend heh… it’s friggin wednesday
CROOK, can’t even do his job to serve the people, the only thing
that thing talks about everyday is terror and war, friggin 5 years
complete cronyism and corruption, that’s the only job he does,
not one single thing to serve the people, NOT EVEN ONE and
he leaves for a vacation on wednesday, after deciding on monday
he’s going to take one… complete incompetents
In fac, the vacation house of any President has always been turned into a mini-White House with a situation room, press room, etc, etc…-Michael
No, we are making fun of the pundits talking points and the clearing of brush canard.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:43 pmChimpy is eagerly awaiting the latest in the Pet Goatseries : My Pet Goat meets a (Really) Lame Duck to read on his (hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!) — working vacation!
April 4th, 2007 at 12:45 pmThe only “work” Bush ever does is shredding the Constitution. Fortunately, he does less shredding when he’s on a “working” vacation.
“Now watch this drive!”
April 4th, 2007 at 12:53 pmor are you guys just laughing at the stupidity of the extreme left wing wackos that buy your lies? or maybe both…..
Comment by Captain Kirk
I am laughing at your constant defending of the Hypocrisy and stupidity of the extreme Right Wing Wackos as well =)
Bush chides the democrats for not getting this bill to him sooner when the Republicans took longer.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pmWTF?
Bush chides Pelosi for going to Syria when the Republicans did the same thing.
WTF?
Bush is not a President for the people he is a president for 30% of the people and works hard to be a divider and not a uniter although he claims to be a uniter.
WTF?
Never have a seen a president that worked so hard at defending his ’side’ during office. It’s like he’s still campaigning.
WTF?
Comment by Captain Kirk — April 4, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
Bush was so busy on his “working” vacation back in 2001 that he completely missed the August 6th PDB titled “Bin Laden Determined To Strike Within US.”
He works real hard on his vacations.
April 4th, 2007 at 12:57 pmDo we have a new troll on board?
April 4th, 2007 at 12:58 pmDamn, #6 that is SWEET!
April 4th, 2007 at 1:00 pmBush is so incompetent, I shudder to think what would happen if he actually did work 24/7 at being prez. He’s known for his three hour afternoon exercise sessions (bike rides) and his long vacations, not for his all-night studying and sleepless nights. He doesn’t even worry about all the death that’s on his hands. Someone should tell him about a man named Jesus, who taught compassion above all else. Jesus taught love for everyone, even your enemies. Bush could learn a thing or two from this collection of books called the ‘New Testament’, too bad he doesn’t read.
He’d could be a fraternity prez, but I still wouldn’t vote for him.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:10 pmI thought he may go to Bagdad and walk the streets. Its is a safe place. Go vacation there with Mccain
April 4th, 2007 at 1:10 pmWaaaHooo, bet bull shit is having a bad vacation, his plan for bombing Iran and creating another war has just been dashed…Blessed are the peace maker’s whom ever they are….Now that bull shit look’s even worse than before (if that’s possible) by holding the 5 Iranian’s he must spend several day’s with the most evil he can muster to try and rebuild more war for profit…Where are all these hostages (1000’s of them) held in secret all over the world?, tortured and not allowed any contact…Who are all these prisoner’s.? Why are they still being held.? Where is UBL, dead or alive.?
Is there one good thing that this mad man has done for any one but corprate america and bull shit bush supporter’s.? I have not been able to find one..So far none of the troll’s have been able to give us one either, all we get is double standard remarks and lies…
Now we have a secure 70% of the population against the bush regime and his war’s…The 30% continue to screech just like bush and demand they continue with their evil and raiding our country and the world…Your loosing troll’s, get over it….Peace will win out and the corrupt will be prosacuted..
Take some time today to send healing thought’s to RUCerious and all needing them…hug your loved one’s, tell someone you love them. plant a tree or flower, send email’s of thank’s to your representatives that voted for us and please do something for our country and the world…Blessings
April 4th, 2007 at 1:15 pmIf the Pres. has such a “situation room” set up at Crawford, what the hell was he or his cronies doing when New Orleans was drowning? The underlings had to make him a dvd.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:17 pmBush’s Easter Break “Working Trip” Agenda:
April 4th, 2007 at 1:17 pm1. Color Easter eggs
2. Get advice from Karl Rove
3. Cut brush
4. Get advice from Alberto Gonzales
5. Play with chocolate bunnies
6. Get advice from Dick Cheney
7. Take a nap
8. Get more advice from Karl Rove
8. Fight war on terror and/or ride bike
As usual, the Bush administration presents nothing but illusion.
Look over there, quick……
April 4th, 2007 at 1:25 pmYOU WOULD THINK…
That the administration would learn from it’s past mistakes. In this case, they claim they botched the PR when firing the US attorneys. Putting truth on hold for a second, lets assume that was true…
Shouldn’t Bush have learned from those mistakes and chosen to stay in Washington while he chastised Democrats? It is irrelevant if Bush will actually work on his ranch.
What matters is that this LOOKS bad. The US attorney firing has already done a number on his credibility, so why has he gone and diminished it more by taking a vacation?
I’ll tell you why… because those attorneys were fired for the wrong reasons, and he’s lying about working at his ranch.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:28 pmPatrick3,
did your moma drop you too many times on your head? so according to your pathetic logic that Bush is only President to 30% of the Americans, Clinton was only President to 60% of the people while he was in power, eh? and Harry Truman was President to 20% of Americans when he was in power, eh? are you this dumb, or do you just play one?
why are extreme left wing wackos so simple minded and so full of hate, why?
so sad…..
April 4th, 2007 at 1:32 pmComment by Captain Kirk — April 4, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
What you see here isn’t hate (you’re projecting), but rather it’s glee as we watch the corrupt Republican party self-destruct. Buh, bye.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:39 pmKirk – Check out the political affiliation of the training edge of the IQ curve and get back to me. By 2009 the words “conservative†and “republican†are going to be roughly the equivalent of “dumbsh*t†and “moronâ€.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:43 pmClear some brush, hang out with Karl and Jeff Gannon………..
April 4th, 2007 at 1:43 pmHey, Kirk – Clinton, Carter, even Bush 1st worked on their ‘vacations.’ St. Ronnie and Shrub – not so much. You do know that as governor of Texas George II took a long lunch, spent an hour running/working out and then played video games for up to 3 hours every day, right?
I cannot understand how anyone can defend Bush et al. in light of the death, poverty, corruption and animosity to our country that they have generated in only 6 years. Is there some kind of drug you folks are given – cuz I was raised in Republican central, and I must have missed a dose – by the time I was 18 I could see the Republic Party for what is was (and what it was then was a whole lot better than it is now – there were some reasonable people, before the neocons and religious wackos took over.)
April 4th, 2007 at 1:44 pmShouldn’t we all be scared shitless that Jorge is going back to the ranch. Nothing ever good happens when he is in Crawford. Anyone remember August 6th PDB, or Katrina? I just pray to god that something doesn’t happen this weekend. Is he going to read his usual 38 books while on vacation, between trips to his stocked pond to catch yet another world record breaking perch?
April 4th, 2007 at 1:48 pmClearin’ brush is hard work.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:09 pmAs I have always known, the extreme left wing wackos are just that, wackos and nutjobs….wow!
Global Warming nutjobs at their “best”, eh?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/04/04/BAGF7P12RN23.DTL
It was supposed to be a birthday night out for the kids in San Francisco, but instead turned into a Critical Mass horror show — complete with a pummeled car, a smashed rear window and little children screaming in terror.
The spontaneous Critical Mass bike rides, in which thousands of free-spirited cyclists roam the city, have been a fixture on the last Friday night of the month since the early 1990s. But even bike-weary cops, who have seen their share of traffic disturbances and minor skirmishes, weren’t prepared for what happened during the latest exercise of pedal power.
Here’s the story:
Susan Ferrando, her husband, their two children and three preteens had come to San Francisco from Redwood City to celebrate the birthday of Ferrando’s 11-year-old daughter. They went to Japantown, where they enjoyed shopping and taking in the blooming cherry blossoms.
Things took a turn for the worse at about 9 p.m., when the family was leaving Japantown — just as the party of about 3,000 bikers was winding down its monthly red-lights-be-damned ride through the city.
Suddenly, Ferrando said, her car was surrounded by hundreds of cyclists.
Not being from San Francisco, Ferrando thought she might have inadvertently crossed paths with a bicycle race and couldn’t figure out why the police, who she had just passed, hadn’t warned her.
Confusion, however, quickly turned to terror, she said, when the swarming cyclists began wildly circling around and then running into the sides of her Toyota van.
Filled with panic, Ferrando said, she started inching forward until coming to a stop at Post and Gough streets, where she was surrounded by bikers on all sides.
A biker in front blocked her as another biker began pounding on the windshield. Another was pounding on her window. Another pounded the other side.
“It seemed like they were using their bikes as weapons,” Ferrando said. One of the bikers then threw his bike — shattering the rear window and terrifying the young girls inside.
All the while, Ferrando was screaming, “There are children in this car! There are children in this car!”
She had the presence of mind to dial 911 on her cell phone — and within minutes, the squad of motorcycle cops who were assigned to keep an eye on the ride descended on the scene.
The cyclists were loudly demanding that Ferrando be arrested for hit and run.
According to police, Ferrando had allegedly tapped one of the cyclists’ tires.
When the alleged bicycle victim was approached, however, he said he wasn’t hurt. He also refused to give his name or any other information.
Then, after a few swear words, the alleged victim took off on his bike while the rest of the crowd continued to yell at both the cops and the van.
Sgt. Ed Callejas — the lead cop on the scene and a veteran of Critical Mass rides since their inception — said he’d never seen anything like it before.
“I’ve seen the bikes swarm cars, and scratch them as they go by. I’ve seen guys get out of their cars and start fighting with the bikers, but if you had seen the faces on those little girls in tears,” Callejas said. “All I could do was apologize for what they had been through.”
The sergeant suggested that Ferrando write a letter to the mayor.
Estimated damage to the car: $5,300.
For Callejas and other cops assigned to the bike ride, Critical Mass has long been a study in contradictions.
For starters, San Francisco is a “green” city, and bike riding is about as green as you can get — yet residents and commuters complain endlessly about getting trapped in the rides.
The city tries to ignore the unplanned rides, but there are always cops on hand to monitor the gatherings, even though any kind of traffic planning is impossible because no route is announced.
And even though the rides are held every month, Critical Mass has no organized leadership — so no one can be held accountable for the group’s actions.
In 1997, then-Mayor Willie Brown tried to control the rides. The result was anarchy and mass arrests.
Since then, the rides have shrunk in size. The city’s generally hands-off attitude leaves cops as little more than bystanders.
“We sit there and they just go right through the red lights,” Sgt. Callejas said. “What else can we do? Arrest one rider while 500 keep going?
“The only way to control this is through a massive effort by police and the Sheriff’s Department,” he said.
As for reaction from City Hall, Mayor Gavin Newsom said such acts of violence — if true — “only serve to undermine the worthwhile message of Critical Mass, which is to raise the awareness of bike transportation issues.”
The mayor also said that — if the charges are grounded — he expected the attackers to be “punished to the greatest extent of the law.”
Riiight.
Ma on the move: Rookie San Francisco state Assemblywoman Fiona Ma isn’t wasting any time making tracks.
Ma is one of six state lawmakers in France this week for a fun fact-finding tour of that nation’s high-speed rail system. It was her third trip in the last year — she also traveled to China on the dime of a nonprofit and to Morocco as a guest of that government. This time, she’s using campaign funds — and what a journey it’s been.
Ma was tagged to ride the French commuter train Tuesday when it broke the speed record, calling it “an exhilarating experience.”
But nothing compares to the trifecta Ma put together to cap off the trip: A visit to Bordeaux to participate in a conference on the effects of global warming on the wine industry.
A perfect blend of political correctness, public relations and party, to boot.
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April 4th, 2007 at 2:19 pmMaybe he’ll finally get a “clue” and stay there! Stats show that he was AWOL from the Presidency some 400+ days which is one full year plus of his tenure. We don’t need him; we don’t want him; he should take a very long, relaxing vacation!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:20 pmMaybe he’ll work himself into a quick date with resignation.
Or better yet . . . an 8 foot tall, very hungry aardvark with
April 4th, 2007 at 2:22 pman appetite for roasted war-pig.
Badmoonman: Thanks for the update! It’s 410 days which translates into one full year plus 45 days!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:22 pmCaptain Kirk: I guess brevity was never your forte! Give us a break here and quit with the BS, inane details, and superfluous bull$hit! Who cares?? Who really cares? Your posts are always pure drivel and nonsense. Perhaps you’re writing a novel because your detritus is pure, unadulterated fiction! Go back into your slimey hole, Troll!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:24 pm#50: I understand that “war pigs” are the tastiest swine on the planet!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pmThrow Captain Kirk a bar of soap, puleeze! This dude is clearly worked into a lather! What a joke!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:25 pm#43 Right now the terms are interchangeable: Republican (Village Idiot) and Conservative (Scumbags personified). My thought is that within the next 5 years there will be no GOP so all of these fabulous descriptive adjectives will be unnecessary anyway.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:27 pmYa know, I started reading this site a few weeks ago, on a friends recomendation, and I have to say, it is amusing! I am by no means am a hard line conservative, nor am I a liberal, but agree on points from both sides.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:28 pmNow, I see hard liners from both sides taking their stands (and potshots) at one another, and it is incredible. Do you folks actually believe everything you read, or can you decipher the truth between the lines.
right wingers call alll the left-leaning folks, “hippies, taitors”, and other things, and the left wingers call everyone who doesn’t agree with them “trolls”, and eventually curse at them.
Keep it up folks, you people amuse the hell out of me! I’m just waiting on someone to cry for full revolution! Viva le revolution, you crazy bloggers!!!
Dubya wouldn’t know work if it bit him in the ass.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:32 pmRevolt!
ur welcome
April 4th, 2007 at 2:34 pm#56
Hmmm….point’s both sides??? Give us an example of a conservative point that appeals to your funny bone. Low taxes, bombing people, combined church and state, one branch of government, smirking, stay the course??
April 4th, 2007 at 2:39 pm#56.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:41 pmI guess that would be you, crying for a full revolution, my French isn’t so good, so I’m not sure.
I’m glad you find this all so entertaining.
A short weekend break? For me a short weekend is either Saturday or Sunday; a long weekend would be Friday through Sunday. Something tells me Bush’s break will be four days or more. He even lies about his vacations!
April 4th, 2007 at 2:41 pm#56 Ahh, we hear the mating call of the rabid centrist.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:51 pmwhat utter BS…
April 4th, 2007 at 2:54 pmIt’s understandably confusing…
April 4th, 2007 at 2:59 pmhow can someone be crucified on Friday afternoon, and be up and gone from the tomb by sunrise Sunday, and claim to have been dead for 3 full days?
Hey, Mack – remember this? If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. The time for bemused detachment is over – people are dying.
April 4th, 2007 at 3:41 pmBemused Detachment? Wow, that’s rich….
April 4th, 2007 at 4:05 pmYou don’t need to tell me people are dying, powkat, I’ve been in the military for 13 1/2 years now, and why you have been “debating” this war, my friends and I have been living it.
I don’t usually like our goverment’s style, or agree with the crap going on, but I take an active role in tyring to make things a little better for my daughter, and that’s all I can do.
#66 And what “active role” is that? Perpetuating a needless war, making the world that much more dangerous? Or are you with us who want to make a safer world for our children?
April 4th, 2007 at 4:19 pmJpark, as much as it may not register with you, it’s not a “you vs. them” matter. Do I like being away from my family, and fighting in a country for reasons that have long since passed? No. Did I do positive things while I was there, like build schools, ensure that areas that were (prior to our arrival)without proper sewage drainage were cared for? Yes. Straight up folks, this ain’t black and white anymore, and the shades of grey are many and varying.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:31 pmIf by “perpetuating a needless war”, do you mean my going over there?
Rove & Cheney told Bush that he must get there early this weekend in order for the three of them to have plenty of time to steal all of the local children’s chocolate Easter bunnies.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:37 pm#68 If by “perpetuating a needless warâ€, do you mean my going over there?
No, you would have to go over there whether you wanted to or not. I mean supporting the war.
Jpark, as much as it may not register with you, it’s not a “you vs. them†matter.
Yes, yes it is and the Bushies rhetoric has made that an undeniable fact. Everything out of that boy’s mouth is a threat or an insult used to score political points. There is no such thing as negotiation or cooperation from him or the majority of Republicans in Congress. They are too used to getting their way by beating the Dems over the head for years.
Do I like being away from my family, and fighting in a country for reasons that have long since passed? No. Did I do positive things while I was there, like build schools, ensure that areas that were (prior to our arrival)without proper sewage drainage were cared for? Yes. Straight up folks, this ain’t black and white anymore, and the shades of grey are many and varying.
Though I don’t agree with the administration you had a job to do and we should all thank you for that. Yes, there are gray areas, but the fact is we went in there and as a result hundreds of thousands of people are dead, including 4000+ Americans and untold numbers of injured and maimed soldiers and civilians. There is no rationale for this occupation and our continued presence is a magnet for those who wish us harm. The generals and other experts have stated straight out that there is no way this can be resolved militarily but the Bush administration has no alternate ideas. They refuse to use diplomacy. They refuse to talk to the Arab League. They are in a hole and are doing nothing but digging deeper.
April 4th, 2007 at 4:43 pmWorking? Hehehe. You expect us to believe that?
From a president who’s been on vacation more than any other president in history? (He broke the record not even a year into his second term!)
Something like 600 days of vacation in 5 years. Its stunning.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:14 pmHave a good time Dubya and don’t bother to come back to DC. We don’t need you to screw up the country anymore than it already is.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:42 pm“Working Trip,” EH? I’VE NEVER SEEN Monkey Boy CHIMPya WORK A SINGLE DAY IN HIS LIFE, EVEN WHEN HE GIVES HIS “BASE EXHORTATION” JINGOISTIC DEMAGOGUE NAZI-FASCIST RANTS OR GIVES SO-CALLED PRESS CONFERENCES OR SPEECHES TO FRIENDLY HAND-PICKED AUDIENCES OR SCRAWLS HIS IN-FAMOUS SIGNING STATEMENTS TO CIRCUMVENT THE RULE OF LAW OF THE LAND, GUT THE BILL OF RIGHTS AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND ACT LIKE A TIN-POT BANANA REPUBLIC TWO-BIT DESPOT!!!!! BUT WORK? NEVER!!!!!
April 4th, 2007 at 9:36 pmDon’t have time to read all the comments, so if this has been said before..please forgive me. On the other hand, can’t be said to often. Bush’s definition of a “working holiday” is clearing brush. Full stop.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:54 pmDidn’t he mean “drinking vacation”?
April 4th, 2007 at 10:13 pm