Vacation-Boy (a.k.a. "Chimpy") Strikes Again!

[npincus]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aVXvPbvFrVYo&refer=home



(on eidt: old pic- new vacationing chimp photo unavailable)

This year, perhaps more than most, politicians are bending over backward to avoid the appearance of taking a holiday.

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It's an especially sensitive topic this August because the administration and Congress put pressure on Iraq's parliament to work through the scorching Baghdad summer and pass legislation aimed at promoting political unity and stabilization. Paying little heed, the parliament on July 30 left for a month off.

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Bush's full August schedule hasn't been disclosed. He will be at the ranch for about half the month, interrupted by an Aug. 20-21 meeting with Canadian and Mexican leaders.

Of the week of Aug. 13, White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said: ``While the president is always president and gets his regular daily briefings, I don't think he'll have any public events that week.''

Sounds like a vacation.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Whoop-de-doo !" - Commander AWOL

"Yes-Sir-ee Indeed! Hee Haw! You can bet your bottom diaper on it (if you are a republicon Homelander, that is). Hee Haw! I said, Hee freaking Haw! Smirk smirk. Hee Haw!

"There ain't absolutely nothin like kickin back at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford, and pretending to be a Texan, while my pals and I count up our Massive WAR PROFITS AND the whole freakin planet convulses with spasms induced our special little cabal of corrupt republicon Homelander cronies. Smirk, smirk, smirk."

- Commander AWOL,
Nutmegger-Preppy-Deserter-in-Chief

[mruddy]

2. How does he keep his gloves looking so nice & new!!!!! HA!!!

[Fridays Child]

3. She said that? While the president is always president?

What an odd thing to say. Is it an acknowledgment that many Americans doubt whether the president is always president?

[smokey nj]

4. "They let me play with the big boy saw!!!"

[peace13]

5. Notice how everyone else has a hard hat on.

Empty heads don't need protection.

[jedicord]

7. Those are the people who are REALLY clearing the brush. n/t

[acmavm]

6. Is that a copy of the pResidential seal on that nimrod's jacket?

Is he that vain or is he just so burnt out he won't remember what his 'job' is?

[zabet]

8. I bet that seal...

is even on his tighty-whities. :puke:

[arewenotdemo]

16. "My job is to do my job."

I believe the Cheerleader once opined.

[laruemtt]

9. this looks so eerily like august 2001 -

i wonder what kind of memos he's being shown we'll never know about - until it's too late, of course...

[never_get_over_it]

13. That is not a current picture

he is not in Crawford now - he is in DC several pictures of him walking over to some meeting with Treasury or something like that this morning

[rurallib]

10. How much to taxpayers pay for the brush they bring in for him to

clear every year. Fighting that brush in Crawford so we don't have to fight it here.

[King Coal]

11. "I gotta clear this brush, cause them insurgents may follow us home."

[Stephanie]

12. I've been waiting for this vacation to start.

He's way past due - usually he'd have been at Crawford for a week already by now. Instead he's taking four-day weekends at Camp David and Kennebunkport.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Is that the Presidential Seal on his jacket?

He seems to have that seal everywhere.

[Javaman]

15. "pressure on Iraq's parliament to work through the scorching Baghdad summer "

what part of their offices are scorching? these fuckers work in A/C while our soldiers and the people melt in 130 degree fucking heat!

allllllllll bullshit.