{"id":8121,"date":"2006-08-04T13:27:27","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T17:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8121.html"},"modified":"2006-08-04T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T17:27:27","slug":"at-least-blair-has-his-priorities-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/at-least-blair-has-his-priorities-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"At least Blair has his priorities straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Embarrassed by the length of previous years’ [tag]vacation[\/tag]s, and the tragedies that have unfolded while the [tag]president[\/tag] enjoys clearing some brush, [tag]Bush[\/tag] will take an abbreviated August vacation this year, spending only 10 days<\/a> at his Crawford retreat. The break began last night.<\/p>\n

As Nico noted<\/a>, the president’s British counterpart is taking a different approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[tag]Tony Blair[\/tag] today decided to delay his summer holiday for a few days to help secure a United Nations resolution that would call for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. […]<\/p>\n

No 10 said the prime minister, who had been expected to leave today, believed the next few days were “crucial” in the efforts to agree a United Nations security council resolution on a ceasefire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s a shame the way reality keeps interfering with the president’s [tag]vacations[\/tag], isn’t it?
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\nIn August 2001, Bush took a month off, even after receiving an intelligence briefing that told him, “Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US.”<\/p>\n

About a year later, over Easter week in 2002, an intense round of violence erupted in Israel. Though the developments were the focus of the world, they occurred during a Bush vacation — which he chose not to cut short.<\/p>\n

In 2004, a tsunami in South Asia devastated a region and killed tens of thousands. World leaders were scrambling to see how they could best help. Bush, meanwhile, was on vacation — and stayed that way. Three days after the crisis began, the White House described the president’s schedule as including a bike ride and “clearing brush<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

In 2005, Bush was on a lengthy break when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. I think we all remember how that turned out.<\/p>\n

And now this year, Blair is making Bush look bad by delaying his own vacation to show some leadership in dealing with the Israel-Lebanon conflict. The poor president can’t catch a break, can he? I mean really, that brush isn’t going to clear itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Embarrassed by the length of previous years’ [tag]vacation[\/tag]s, and the tragedies that have unfolded while the [tag]president[\/tag] enjoys clearing some brush, [tag]Bush[\/tag] will take an abbreviated August vacation this year, spending only 10 days at his Crawford retreat. The break began last night. As Nico noted, the president’s British counterpart is taking a different approach. […]<\/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-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","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=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}