Bush’s “working vacation”

Poor Georgie. He might have to do a little “work” (and by that I mean “self-congratulatory cheerleading”) during his month-long vacation :

Fundraisers will help will fill President Bush’s schedule during his month-long working vacation at his ranch near Crawford.

In August, Bush will mix public policy events with six fund-raisers — in Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington and Minnesota.

The practice allows the administration, in certain cases, to bill taxpayers for half the travel costs of the political activity.

Yeah, I’m sure that Clinton did plenty of this himself, but am I the only one who’s comepletely disgusted by the fact that Bush (a) gets to take a month for vacation and (b) has replaced almost every press conference that a normal president would have with this endless series of “public policy events”, which are essentially political campaign stops made at the taxpayers expense?


posted by greg on July 31, 2003 @ 4:14 pm

2 comments

  1. Working vacations, like working lunches, benefit only the vacationer. No real work gets done. Meantime, who’s minding the store? W will have the opportunity to delegate even more to his over the hill gang. Look at where that has gotten us.

    Comment by Shag from Brookline — August 1, 2003 @ 4:14 am

  2. I propose that the only “public policy events” that the Administration can justly charge the American taxpayers for be ONLY for public events, not this “invitation only” crap. Let the man hear what “middle America” actually DOES think of him!

    Comment by Kathleen — August 2, 2003 @ 9:12 am

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