WP: Down on the rach, President Bush wages war on underbrush

[billr]

365 days?
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By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 31, 2005; Page A03

CRAWFORD, Tex., Dec. 30 -- On most of the 365 days he has enjoyed at his secluded ranch here, President Bush's idea of paradise is to hop in his white Ford pickup truck in jeans and work boots, drive to a stand of cedars, and whack the trees to the ground.

If the soil is moist enough, he will light a match and burn the wood. If it is parched, as it is across Texas now, the wood will sit in piles scattered over the 1,600-acre spread until it is safe for a ranch hand to torch -- or until the president can come home and do the honors himself.

Sometimes this activity is the only official news to come out of what aides call the Western White House. For five straight days since Monday, when Bush retreated to the ranch for his Christmas sojourn, a spokesman has announced that the president, in between intelligence briefings, calls to advisers and bicycling, has spent much of his day clearing brush.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/30/AR2005123001326.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Obsessive / compulsive / sociopathic...

...and he possesses the most "power" of any human being on the planet.:scared::evilfrown:

[sam sarrha]

4. does anyone else 'clear brush in Texas'.? is it the FIRE part..???

:hide:

[Jade Fox]

11. I was thinking that too......

What a bizarre way to spend your time. And my guess is Bush boy has no idea how many poisonous snakes there are in Texas, in spite of being a "native". :evilgrin:

[PATRICK]

2. Incendiary proclivity

Nero was nicknamed the "Incendiary". I had a nutty(with a lot of questionable stuff besides brush fire) neighbor who loved his illegal backyard fires and was great pals with the eventually embarrassed local firefighters. It seems natural therefore for me to equate the two easily and see this "activity" as just another sign of a social misfit who succeeds only at ingratiating himself with the people he threatens and compromises.

[chelsea0011]

3. The idea that the media still make Bush and the myth real is putrid

Remember Clinton was a McDonalds' face stuffer, impeached and accused rapist by the media. Bush is an Ivy League dress-up mass murderer who still gets the free pass. Liberal press, my arss.

[HereSince1628]

5. Wow! WP whacks Bush on bush whacking, this is HUGH! Gotta reed!

Not.

[billr]

6. a full years of his preisidency has been like this?

"Sometimes this activity is the only official news to come out of what aides call the Western White House. For five straight days since Monday, when Bush retreated to the ranch for his Christmas sojourn, a spokesman has announced that the president, in between intelligence briefings, calls to advisers and bicycling, has spent much of his day clearing brush."

[babylonsister]

7. I think it's a not-so-subtle slap in the head to

dimson, and I like it!

[Cooley Hurd]

8. Jesus, the symbolism, whether intentional or not, is frightening:

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If the soil is moist enough, he will light a match and burn the wood. If it is parched, as it is across Texas now, the wood will sit in piles scattered over the 1,600-acre spread until it is safe for a ranch hand to torch -- or until the president can come home and do the honors himself.
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He gets his jollies by LITERALLY slashing and burning???? eep!:scared:

[babylonsister]

9. There's arson in his heart?

Nothing would surprise me!
And this is the guy running things? Yes, very frightening, more so because that's all they've got? Does this man have no other hobbies?:scared:

[HereSince1628]

10. You name the problem exactly, it looks insulting, Dems like it

But where does this take us?

Does it help move the nation toward an understanding the nature of Bush's crimes against the American people? No.

It is as a biscuit thrown to a watch dog to keep it from barking about a burglary.

[opihimoimoi]

12. Think of it...Its the only real skill he has..slashing and burning..

no need for brains there....

He is a gurly mon trying to be John Wayne