Aaron at naw noticed a terrific tidbit in a Washington Post article about Bush’s New Year break in Texas.
Mark Knoller of CBS News, scrupulous keeper of records of presidential activity, reports that this visit is Bush’s 29th to his Texas ranch as president, so he has stopped at the ranch on all but three of his 32 presidential trips to Texas. Knoller reports that Bush has spent all or part of 214 days at his ranch. Since New Year’s Day was Day 1,077 of the Bush presidency, he has been in Crawford for one-fifth of the days in his term.
Aaron noted that Bush is the president and “should be on the job more than one-fifth of the time.” Damn straight. Bush, like everyone else, should get vacation time. But a total that’s equivalent to 10 weeks a year? Doesn’t he have anything better to do?
Indeed, how many U.S. workers can say they get, on average, 10 weeks of vacation time a year?