WE blog in Kansas paper almost all against * good to see some thought

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http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/07/less_time_clear.html#comments

[greenbriar]

1. this guy gets it!!!

With Republicans nervous about keeping control of Congress and worries about the future of Iraq, Iran and North Korea, White House officials have decided too much is at stake this year for Bush to spend so much time on vacation."

Well, this as I suspected. That is, Bush supporters have always cited the very carefully displayed pictures of Bush in the Crawford ranchhouse basement (no windows even! man that guy works hard when he's on vacation!) as well as its progidious IT infrastructure as evidence that his freakishly long vacations were actually working vacations. They'd argue that the president didn't need to stay in DC in order to stay plugged in, that he could function just as effectively from Crawford as from the WH.

Well, I believe the White House has now admitted that that wasn't true. Gee, whoda thunk it?!?

What White House officials mean, of course, is that what's at stake *in this decision* is not Iraq, not Iran, not North Korea, and not Congress.

It's the president's own approval ratings that are at stake, nothing more.

Posted by: flike | July 14, 2006 at 01:22 PM

[greenbriar]

2. well, I thought it was kind of cool

to see so many like minded people in Kansas