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Bashing the "Royal Leeches" is an honored custom in the UK - any negativity about Obama is 'racist' in the USA.
Turns out, the UK has a lot better deal all the way around that the American Taxpayer has. We spent $1.4 Billion (with a B) on the Obama Family, while the British taxpayers spent just $57.8 million on the royal family. I'd take that deal.
All that said ...... should Michelle and the girls suffer because Daddy is incompetent? This 'fiscal cliff' stuff didn't just come up suddenly - we knew the deadline in August of 2011. No reason at all to push this to "postmarked by midnight" once again. He has done this every year of his Presidency - that makes it a pattern and is horribly irresponsible.
57.8 million is a lot to pay people who don't do much....or earn it, they were born into it....not the same thing as a President who leads a country....and earned his position.
WACO, Tex., Aug. 2 -- President Bush is getting the kind of break most Americans can only dream of -- nearly five weeks away from the office, loaded with vacation time.
The president departed Tuesday for his longest stretch yet away from the White House, arriving at his Crawford ranch in the evening to clear brush, visit with family and friends, and tend to some outside-the-Beltway politics. By historical standards, it is the longest presidential retreat in at least 36 years.
The August getaway is Bush's 49th trip to his cherished ranch since taking office and Tuesday was the 319th day that Bush has spent, entirely or partially, in Crawford -- roughly 20 percent of his presidency to date, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio reporter known for keeping better records of the president's travel than the White House itself. Weekends and holidays at Camp David or at his parents' compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, bump up the proportion of Bush's time away from Washington even further.
Bush's long vacations are more than a curiosity: They play into diametrically opposite arguments about this leadership style. To critics and late-night comics, they symbolize a lackadaisical approach to the world's most important day job, an impression bolstered by Bush's periodic two-hour midday exercise sessions and his disinclination to work nights or weekends. The more vociferous among Bush's foes have noted that he spent a month at the ranch shortly before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when critics assert he should have been more attentive to warning signs.
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."
Good for her and her kids! She "earns her keep" in her position. She works hard and has a few causes that are really important to her. She deserves a break.
I thought I read somewhere that the Crawford TX. ranch house where Bush stayed had it's on version of the White House 'situation room' so he could tend to his duties as president there. I could be wrong.
I have read the same. Also similar reports for one of Reagan's ranches.
Why are you guys even feeding this troll? He's posted 660 times in less than 2 months after randomly coming on this forum after the election after many posters stopped posting. It's crazy.
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