I heard on NPR this afternoon that Shrub was given a detailed briefing on Hurricane Isabel this morning -- and decided to leave for his weekend at Camp David a day early.
Hey, any excuse is a good excuse for taking a day off, right?
Update 9/18 6:50 PM ET: My mistake: According to the evening news, Shrub left for Camp David last night. Something about a hot date with Jordan's King Abdullah. Whiskey Bar profoundly regrets the error.
I don't know; the weather at Camp David isn't likely to be all that good this weekend.
After a crappy weekend at Camp David, he may need a week of heavy pretzelin' at the ranch to get his head back together.
Upon being warned that the severe winds would play havoc with his short iron game, he was forced to retreat to climes more amenable to his handicap.
Has anyone tallied his vacation days and compared them to those of other presidents? He's got to own the record now, right?
Maybe Reagan's second term beats him. In any case, to take so much time away from the WH when our nation is at war and in an economic disaster is unconscionable.
Anyone have the stats?
Not exactly what I was looking for, but a pretty good collection of damning facts nonetheless:
http://www.thousandreasons.net/resume.html
Someone tallied the presidents vacation time and it is the most of any president - greater than 20% of his time. Papa Bush was second.
I think Bush misinterpreted the intelligence - he heard: massive, somethin' somethin' widespread destruction somethin' evacuation somethin' damage somethin' somethin' threat. The military said there was nothing they could do, that we were at the storm's mercy - so he decided to go AWOL.
He's probably tired out from clearing all that brush on his ranch for a month.
If we see Bush showing up at a school to read to children, look out everybody!
If we believe MoDo from the summr and fall of 2000 election, he has a special pillow, too.
I rather think he heard vagaries and thought a protest movement was headed to DC.
During the early weeks of the war (pre mission accomplished) there was a tiny flap that he would go to Camp David, and we were dutifully informed it is a "Marine Installation".
A weak man likely dreams of marines. Clutching his special pillow.
Good thing he's got all those thousands of National Guard and Reserves on hand to help during this disaster! Oh... I forgot, they're out of town.
The special pillow is for real, marisacat! He calls it his "pilly" (seriously) ......
Why is it I find myself actually believing you, Mal....
Damn, I almost choked on my pretzel!
he was forced to retreat to climes more amenable to his handicap.
His handicap is "intellectually challenged"
Sounds like our George, a man with time to nickname the pillow.
Reading, years ago, the long article in the New Yorker on the CBS Westmoreland trial, it was noted that Westmoreland, testifying, when asked his age, responded 72 and a half.
We have a problem in this country with child-men rising too high.
Hey, he just wants to be "out of harm's way"!