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Congrats you uncaring bastard
From The Daily Pick

On August 19th, George W Bush broke the record for all-time most vacation days while President, beating Ronald Reagan’s old record in nearly half the time!

This man has spend nearly 20% of his time in office not working. Think your boss would give you 10.4 weeks of vacation a year if you were doing an amazing job? What if you were doing a crappy job? What if your company was losing money at a prodigious amount while your competitors were actively trying to destroy you?

He cut his current 5 week vacation a couple days short to start addressing the damage that Katrina caused. Of course this was the day AFTER Katrina caused the damage. Of course this was several days AFTER Katrina was identified as a risk.

I can’t believe that his approval rating is even 40%. He is destroying this country.

at least not the neocons

charts are from the budget explorer

Take a look here: See the deficits decreasing over the course of Bill Clinton’s presidency and then increase dramatically over George Bush’s presidency? 9/11 isn’t the reason for this. President Bush signed the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 on 6/7/01 and then refused to roll it back as the costs for 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan required more and more money.

At what point is he going to admit that his plan is wrong? At what point are the American people going to say ENOUGH?

You know where George Bush has cut government expenses? Well one significant area was in flood prevention funds for the gulf coast states. Freaking genius George. Now we’ve had our US production of oil put into danger and we are going spend billions to fix the problems created because GWB would rather give more money to billionaires then save the lives and livelihoods of poor southerners (a big part of the republican base).

George W. Bush is without question the worst president in American history at this point.

When the going gets rough, the tough head to Crawford, or Idaho or VFW halls

So George ends his vacation with a few speeches to supporters and then another vacation. He moves from red state to red state, from military base to VFW hall, from one group of unquestioning supporters to another; all the while ignoring the mounting body counts in Iraq and rising opposition to the war among the American people. He tries to shore up support for the war by engaging his supporters, which is yet another stupid move from an out-of-touch elitist. Maybe now some of the people that voted for him will start to see their mistake.

George Bush doesn’t want to be America’s president, he wants to be the president of the people that like him and screw everyone else. He has never reached out to those who disagree with his policies or views. He cajoles, insults and belittles them. When politicians attack his policies, he (and Rove) try to destroy them (for example: Barbara Boxer). When those who know challenge his loose fitting of the facts (or lies) to reality he (and Rove) try to destroy them (for example: Joseph Wilson). Now that the American people are starting to question and disagree with him, he chooses to ignore us completely…

It is time for this president to be a man, to be a leader, to acknowledge what is really happening in Iraq and in his own country. To own up to his mistakes (after 1864 dead, can his still claim that he hasn’t ever made one mistake during his presidency?) and to engage the whole country in trying to fix them. Otherwise the next three years will be a comical farce as he jumps around the country from ever smaller red pocket to red pocket in an increasingly angry America; until finally he is just spending 100% of his time in Crawford pretending that everyone still loves him…