{"id":7917,"date":"2006-07-12T15:31:29","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7917.html"},"modified":"2006-07-12T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T19:31:29","slug":"bush-now-willing-to-consider-drastic-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-now-willing-to-consider-drastic-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush now willing to consider drastic measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re almost half-way through July, which means August is right around the corner &#8212; and that&#8217;s the month Bush likes to take off. The president easily <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/08\/02\/AR2005080201703.html\">broke the record<\/a> last year for most vacation days for a two-term president (with three years to spare!) thanks in large part to the fact that he enjoys month-long respites in Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Chronicle&#8217;s Cragg Hines, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/editorial\/hines\/4040588.html\">notes<\/a> that this year, Mr. Down Time might not be able to take all the time off in August to which he&#8217;s accustomed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This could be getting serious. The White House is concerned enough about President Bush&#8217;s job rating and its possible effect on Republican chances in the November elections that word of reduction in vacation time at Crawford next month is being put about. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>What with the approach of congressional elections as well as continuing rough patches with Iraq, Iran and North Korea, &#8220;White House officials have decided too much is at stake this year for Bush to spend so much time on vacation,&#8221; the Associated Press reported.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Officials &#8220;decided&#8221;? Wait a sec, isn&#8217;t <i>Bush<\/i> The Decider?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, if the president is willing to limit his vacation time in Crawford this August it will send quite a signal to the world: Bush must be really worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re almost half-way through July, which means August is right around the corner &#8212; and that&#8217;s the month Bush likes to take off. The president easily broke the record last year for most vacation days for a two-term president (with three years to spare!) thanks in large part to the fact that he enjoys month-long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}